I recently had to move my collection to a larger WD removable drive. I noticed the paths can only facilitate one thread. My question is "Can I store my collection on more than one drive?" If there is a way PLEASE forward the solution. BTW thumbs up on the screen controls...

The VGHD models/data need to be in the one (and under the same folder - VGHD) location unless you know how to edit the registry.

In any event, the only way you can store the data/models over multiple HDD's is if you use a external or internal storage device that utilises raid configuration.

There are a number of devices that will hold say 4 hard disks and write your data across them in a Raid 5 configuration, yet still look to a PC as being only a single hard disk. The prices have come down a long way as have the price of hard disks.

Normally very safe until you get "creative" as I did and then when trouble stricks, you may have more work to do/.

XP pro supports Dynamic Disk Arrays in the form of Spanned or Stripped.
But you would have to have more then One HD installed, Not an External removable drive.

See this MS site for Information
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309044

Also, via a registry Edit, you could keep the DATA folder on the Internal Drive, and the Models Folder on an External Drive.

I go a bit beyond this with one of my test systems...
here is an example of one of my systems.
The Data folder is on my C:\ drive
I use an External HD that I move from one computer to another, and this is where I have all of the Models folders.
It is Called T:\ Drive
I also have a smaller External HD, that I keep only some of the Models Folders on.
It is Called U:\ Drive

I have a VGT.reg file
and I have a VGU.reg file

in each file I have the following info.

VGT.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Totem\vghd\System]
"DataPath"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\George\\Application Data\\vghd\\Data\\"
"ModelsPath"="T:\\vghd\\Models\\"


VGU.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Totem\vghd\System]
"DataPath"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\George\\Application Data\\vghd\\Data\\"
"ModelsPath"="U:\\vghd\\Models\\"



When I plug in my T: drive, I double click on the VGT.reg file and it changes the registry so VG knows to look to the T: drive for the Models folders.

When I plug in my U: drive, I double click on the VGU.reg file and it changes the registry so VG knows to look to the U: drive for the Models folders.

When I start VG after a drive change, I just rebuild the collection.
I keep automatic Downloads off, so it doesn't try to download the Missing Models when I use the U drive.

I am a bit more technical than the average person, so this isn't for everyone.
But it would be a way to have Half your collection on One External drive, and another Half on a second drive, But only Access to One drive at a time.

Keep the Data Folder On your Primary HD though.
(Actually You could Keep a separate Copy of the Data folder on each external drive though.. but then in the Example VGT and VGU reg files, you'd also need to change the Data folder locations as well. )

Not sure you will understand all that I posted here, but it is a way to split the collection up.

I add the Pics, because I think the posts strips off all the BackSlash characters..
So the Pics let you see how the file should look.

I have a solution I found once for my Steam-Games in their forum...
works for VGHD too

• close VGHD/DB/Vguy
• create a directory on the drive where you want to store the models too, e.g. "d:VGHDModels"
• move the models you want to store there to the new location, e.g. move your "C:Documents and SettingsUsernameApplication DatavghdModelsd0065" to "d:VGHDModelsd0065"
• start the command prompt as administrator (Start->all programs->accessoires->command prompt (right-click->run as administrator))
• now create a junction point between the new location and the location where it normally should be and enter:

mklink /j [Old Location] [New Location]

for my example:

mklink /j "C:Documents and SettingsUsernameApplication DatavghdModelsd0065" "d:VGHDModelsd0065"

• hit enter
• at the old location should now be a folder-link and VGHD should find the model without difficulty

well done :)

Edit: of course you have to do this for all your cards you want to move seperately...
But remember you only have to press "up" or "F3" to get the last command line, so in case of moving many cards, you only have to change the numbers each time (at [Old Location] and [New Location]!!)

(thanks and credits to KublaKhan at Steam)

Works fine. I created a batch file with notepad . Got the list of model
directories with DOS 'dir > _model.txt'.
Open it in notepad and select the directory names only by using left mouse. Pasted them to a new batch file and used 'replace' function to
add the rest:

mklink /J C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\AppData\Local\vghd\models\a0032 I:\Vghd\models\a0032
mklink /J C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\AppData\Local\vghd\models\0119 I:\Vghd\models\a0119
mklink /J C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\AppData\Local\vghd\models\a0120 I:\Vghd\models\a0120
mklink /J C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\AppData\Local\vghd\models\a0140 I:\Vghd\models\a0140
...

You don't need to waste your time with the demo models. They are < 100MB :-)
BTW: notepad allows vertical selection. You can select a full column in the
batch file and type e.g. "I:" --> notpad will add this in each line.

PS. Hopefully doing this is okay for Totem. But the feature is really missing. Notepad-plus-plus (the plus signs where ***** by web server :-(

Edit by Mod to put back the Slashes...

Yes, Symbolic Links and Junctions will work with VG..
I had wrote a whole set of Instructions as well as a set of Scripts to do this..
This is the only way you can SPAN your collection across multiple External HDD.
Multiple as in More than One.

Moving your Entire Collection to a single HDD, Has now just been added to the Latest Version 1.1.0.26 of VG.

Here are my Previous Posts on this subject.

http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=8&ftId=18813#306807

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http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=8&ftId=18813#309238

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