Guides Tip to Share Assets/Folders Between Versions of Vam

Update:

/u/chokaphi on Reddit gave out a GUI solution to this:

If you want a GUI way of creating the various link types in NTFS Grab Link Shell Extension (LSE) provides for the creation of Hardlinks, Junctions, Volume Mountpoints, and Symbolic Links

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That makes it as simple as right click a folder, drag and drop where you want the link to be.

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Just for folks dont know. We can create Windows hard link pointing to a directory, hence sharing Custom and Saves between 1.18 and 1.19. See more at HowToGeek article about Windows Hard link and Symbolic Link.

Steps:

• Copy paste the old version out without Saves and Custom
• Run new version Vam_Updater.exe
• Run CMD using windows menu or Win+R type in cmd
• Navigate to new VAM directory, if you have difficulty, here is a cheat sheet
• Run mklink /J Saves H:\VAM-Old\Saves and mklink /J Custom H:\VAM-Old\Custom

VAM will treat old Custom and Saves folders as the same one under its hood