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Make sure that you are not installing in your windows, program files, or user folders. Just make a new folder along side of those in your C: drive and try that.
08-01-2021 11:52 AM - edited 08-01-2021 12:07 PM
I have found a way to do this. Why? Because I have 2 hard drives, one with Windows 10, and one with the pre-release of Windows 11 where I wanted to test the Oculus Link compatibility. I wanted Oculus on the new version of windows to read the installed apps without having to reinstall any of them.
You have to fool it, but it can be fooled with a symlink and an empty folder since the Oculus app only tests for this issue when you try to do it directly. You are making a junction point to redirect it to the real location.
In my new copy of windows, my old version showed up on drive D, but still gave me the same error.
How to solve it:
You have to use the windows CMD app which is the command prompt (not power shell which does not like the mklink command) -- I opened CMD.EXE with administrator privileges.
First I create a folder on my new hard drive called: C:\Oculus
Then create a folder inside it called: Software.
So you now have:
C:\Oculus\Software
Open the Oculus app and go to your library settings to add that as the new location.
Close the Oculus app.
Delete the Software folder so you have only: C:\Oculus
Open the CMD app, with administrative privileges then go into the folder like so.
cd C:\Oculus
type this command (change it to link to wherever the folder you want as the redirected location) to make a junction to the real location:
mklink /j Software "D:\Program Files\Oculus\Software"
now restart the Oculus app.
What I saw was interesting...
I saw that it followed the symlink AND a real location.
It added these 2 as separate locations:
C:\Oculus\Software
D:\Program Files\Oculus\Software
(you can remove the first one from the list, don't delete, just remove it)
If you want, you can make the C:\Oculus folder hidden, but I decided not to do that so I can use it to make links to other locations as well. You can do it like so:
attrib +H C:\Oculus
To undo it if you decide you want it to be visible again:
attrib -H C:\Oculus
I tried to delete the C:\Oculus folder and it didn't like it. A different time I was able to, though I don't know why it worked once. If you do test and delete the folder, just leave it in the recycle bin so if you open it and the Oculus app doesn't find it, just restore it from the recycle bin and it will resume working.
03-12-2024 10:42 PM
Even though this was really long ago, thanks for the solution.
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