Trouble accessing saves on USB

[agentofchaos]

Hi everyone,

I just want to say that I don't usually play PC games so I am very new to this and I am not quite sure what I am doing  .

I tend to play Rimworld at work, during slow night shifts, lunch breaks etc. I have the non-steam version loaded onto a USB. However I tend to move around to different computers from shift to shift (thus why I want it on a USB).

The thing is that my saves never stay- they randomly disappear when I shift computers, and sometimes (but not always) they reappear if I sit on the exact same computer. I have tried to follow this online guide as best I can https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/3lg3ol/the_definitive_guide_to_moving_your_save_to_a/

Not sure what I have done wrong. I would say the saves are going to the hard drive but that is always a C drive and I have the target set up as:

E:\RimWorld1557Win\RimWorld1557Win.exe -savedatafolder SaveData

Also I tried to look around on the hard drive and I can't see any saves or save folders anywhere. Any ideas? Or if it is going to the hard drive how can I tell it that I want them on the USB instead?

[skullywag]

Read the readme thats in the games files it has all the info.

[harpo99999]

and just to be a tiny bit more helpful, this is the windows batch file I use to run MY drmfree rimworld

".\RimWorld1557Win.exe" -savedatafolder=SaveData

in the same folder as the rimworld1557win.exe,
and it does create and use the data into the savedata folder next to the rimworld exe

[agentofchaos]

and just to be a tiny bit more helpful, this is the windows batch file I use to run MY drmfree rimworld

".\RimWorld1557Win.exe" -savedatafolder=SaveData

in the same folder as the rimworld1557win.exe,
and it does create and use the data into the savedata folder next to the rimworld exe

Hey Harpo thank you so much. It took me a bit to set this up (like I said I'm pretty new at this) but am going to try it today. I'll let you know how it goes.