How to change CiV documents folder?

[Thalassicus]

Does anyone know where in the windows registry the Civ 5 folder path is stored?

The problem is when debugging mods, the path name is too long so I can't tell what file an error occurs in. I'd like to move the folder to somewhere with a shorter path name to work around this bug.

 

[The_J]

I only know how to move your whole "My Documents" folder. Just rightclick on the icon on your desktop and change the target.
I guess there's no other workaround for that.

 

[Thalassicus]

Yeah, that's what I did to get it to my D drive. Shortening the name of the documents folder would only chop off a few characters though, and the path name is ~40 characters too long. Basically what I need to do is move the Civ folder out of the documents folder.

I spent another twenty minutes searching... it appears they made the decision to hardcode the path instead of storing it in the registry or config files like most programs. If anyone else can think of a way to work around this bug, I'm out of ideas. It's the worst kind of error... an error with the error-reporting system itself.