Can I move the mods folder to another to another hard drive?

[Firemetal]

Basically, in my computer, I have two drives, my computer drive, (Which holds only 118 GB) and a data drive. Is it possible to move the gamedata folder to the data drive, and still have the game work?
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Edited December 8, 2017 by Firemetal

[voicey99]

No, GameData has to be in the KSP directory (like everything else KSP-related).

You could try moving your entire KSP install to the data drive, though I'm not sure if you can run it from there.

[Deddly]

You can't separate the gamedata folder from the KSP directory (as far as I know) but you can move the entire directory wherever you like. You can run it from a USB drive if you want to :).

[Shadowmage]

Actually, if you are familiar with symbolic links, you can move stuff out of GameData, and replace it with a link that points to its new home (on Windows at least).  I do this to keep all of my in-development mods synched into my live development KSP install.  The repositories are located on a separate hard-drive from the KSP install, and only symbolic links are present in GameData pointing to the actual locations.

The CMD for this is (must be run as administrator)

mklink /d <link> <targetPath>

Edit:  I have no idea if this can be applied to the entire GameData folder.  Maybe... maybe not.  In theory it should work, but I have not tried it in practice.

Edited December 8, 2017 by Shadowmage