SSD and Auto-saves in the C: Drive

[Soulzityr]

Hello, I recently built a new computer and now this is my set up:

C: This is an SSD drive that has my OS
D: This is a 1TB HDD that I put everything else

The problem is that steam auto-saves everything into C:/My Documents

which in turn the auto-saves constantly rewrites. I heard this is very bad for the SSD drive so I want to change the settings to save everything to D:/My Documents

This is the problems I found in my research
Steam does not have a feature that lets you change the auto-save directory.

I have two options I found online:

1. Create a junction - Make the address pointer of C:/My Documents to D:/My Documents. I tried this by right clicking C:/My Documents and changing the properties and now it displays D:/My Documents. However, I read online and this is true that C:/My Documents still exists so therefore Steam and all other programs still find and save to that folder.

2. Swap C and D drive, then boot D drive first and then C drive. This sounds like it could work, but I'm slightly worried it might cause some unforeseeable problems I definitely don't want to deal with. I also have no means of backing up my drives. Is this something worth attempting, if so, how should I go about it?

I'm using Windows 8, btw.

Thanks for any help in advance.

 

[tjmaze]

The effect of the autosave on SSD life is going to be minimal, the OS will perform more operations on it within an hour than the game probably will over a month.

 

[The_J]

My "My Documents" folder is currently on I:, and everything correctly saves into that (but I don't have Steam or Civ5, so can't say anything about that).
It's true that there's still a C:\Documents\[Username]\My Documents folder, but for me it's empty.

 

[Soulzityr]

My "My Documents" folder is currently on I:, and everything correctly saves into that (but I don't have Steam or Civ5, so can't say anything about that).
It's true that there's still a C:\Documents\[Username]\My Documents folder, but for me it's empty.

What did you do to make this happen?

The effect of the autosave on SSD life is going to be minimal, the OS will perform more operations on it within an hour than the game probably will over a month.

This is very reassuring. Thanks for the heads-up. I'm no longer worried about it, but I would still like to try something if only to simply learn more about my computer and how to do things with it

 

[The_J]

What did you do to make this happen?

Nothing special. I just moved the My Documents folder in the same way like you describe, and everything else just continues to work like normal .