If you’re using Windows for Unreal Engine Development, instead of moving your folders to another location, you might want to consider using the Dos command SUBST.
For example, if your default Unreal Projects folder is located at “C:\Users\YourName\Documents\Unreal Projects”, and you want to map that location to disk drive U: then your SUBST command would look like this:
SUBST U: “C:\Users\YourName\Documents\Unreal Projects”
So your CreatedProjectsPaths ini setting would be:
CreatedProjectPaths=U:
Better yet, you could put the SUBST command in a .bat file and put that in the Startup folder so that the alternate path is created every time you reboot. Doing it this way would mean that you don’t have to move your files at all and can leave them in the default location, but gain the benefit of a shorter path which is safer when building projects with Visual Studio.
Just create a file in notepad with the line:
SUBST U: “C:\Users\YourName\Documents\Unreal Projects”
and save that as UnrealProjectsSUBST.bat, right inside of your Unreal Projects folder. Then copy that file to the Windows Startup folder (Windows Key + R, then type “shell:startup”).
You don’t have to move a single file and you get the benefit of shorter path names. 