Games creating folders in My Documents

[Jinx999]

There are a number of games NWN2 and Mass effect that create folders in the "My Documents" area.
I REALLLY REALLLY hate this. It messes up my file arangement.
Is there any way to get them to stop or create folders somewhere else?

[Irascor]

Some games have .ini files where you can tweak the directory the save files go to, so you might want to try that.

[Ankhani]

I'm pretty sure they are created during install, so I don't think you'll get things to stop making them. I know that NWN2 and Mass Effect have their user-specific/generated content like saves and screenies (and the override dir for mods) in the My Documents section. So some you can't just delete it and keep it gone. You might, though, as Ira suggests, be able to redirect them somewhere else and delete the current folder. I'm not sure how successful this will be, though. Suffice it to say, it is not going to be a recommended practice.
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[CattyNebulart]

If you run them through wine you can specify what the My Documents folder should be, and you can have a separate wineroot for each game, but if you are using windows I don't know, I don't think you can stop it. Windows kinda has symbolic links so you could use those to redirect the folder which half accomplishes what you want.
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[Sofaspud]

You can specify what actual folder your My Documents folder points at.  That's about the only way to do it; it's technically a system folder and the apps, games, what-have-you ask Windows what it is when they go to create stuff.

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