My daughter has previously installed Fortnite on my laptop…in her user directory.
I now want to look at learning UE game development so I ran the installer for the launcher. It is INSISTING on installing itself in her user directory. The only two options I have are “Install” and “Cancel”.
Fortunately she never uses my laptop any more so I can uninstall the launcher and reinstall in a more sensible location, but if she did still use my laptop for Fortnite at all, I would be screwed - or she would be.
The launcher should allow itself to have multiple installs on the same PC, if they are in user directories.
It is some .ini file. Search all ini files for that folder name. Then just edit it or change.
Also you can ask some “pretending to be intelligent” things like ChatGPT for list of possible places where that ini may be.
Or use tool like TotalCommander to search folders for ini file that contain “fortnite”
“pretending intelligence” gave me this:
%ProgramData%\Epic\EpicGamesLauncher\Data\LauncherInstalled.dat
its json that keeps info about what is installed where
apparently you can also make Symbolic Link to new folder from command prom as administrator:
mklink /D “C:\Program Files\Epic Games” “D:\Epic Games”