Why does the Launcher not recognize my symlink / junction folder?

Distribution UE Marketplace
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I’ve been compiled the editor from sources into a folder called C:\UnrealEngine which is a junction points to D:\UnrealEngine .

Running the launcher marketplace however says theres not enough free space available to download and install. There is alot space on the physical drive.

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My guess is it checks the available space using the assigned drive letter (in your case C) rather than full destination path.
Changing destination folders has been mentioned before and I think it will be included in one of the future releases.

EDIT: see this link

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You could try changing the paths in registry. I found some under
HKLM\Software\EpicGames\Unreal Engine
Though I have no idea how it’s going to react to this :wink:

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Glad it helped! :slight_smile:

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That’s a good guess. It would explain a lot.
By following the links you provided i ended up trying to replace the symlink to a Junction, but its still a no go…

Does this issue been resolved?

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Nice catch!

i’ve been updated the following values:
APPINSTALLLOCATION to D:\UnrealEngine
DesktopFolder to D:\Unreal\ (my own projects should be here)
INSTALLDIR to D:\UnrealEngine\

this is fixed the problem so running the UE4Editor now brings the launcher up and start to downloading into folders.