How to select install location on a mac?

Hi,

I just downloaded unreal engine, but it was just launcher. How can I choose install location for engine? I don’t have enough space (6GB) on my boot SSD.

Hey

You’ll probably want to move installer for Launcher over to whatever drive you want to use engine on. Once you install Launcher, you’ll use Launcher to install engine. Currently, Launcher installs to same location and you can’t choose another harddrive.

Best,

Hi,

What installer are you talking about? When i download Unreal Engine, It comes with a DMG, I mounted it and tried to install it to data HD with more space. But even if I run it from data HD, It gives me error message that there’s not enough space in Users/Shared

http://cl.ly/Vhlt

Sorry, I think I misunderstood you. If you’re not using external drive as your boot, moving DMG to it won’t help you. Currently, you can only choose location of Launcher, but Launcher will still attempt to install engine to default location in your C drive.

Unfortunately, there is no way to specify install location. This is something Launcher developers are working on, I believe, but until then you’ll either need to make some more room on your boot or use external as your boot (which may cause a number of other known issues).

Any word on how far along Launcher developers are with this? I’m in same situation.

Hey all,

There’s still some internal discussion about making this a Launcher feature. There is a workaround you can use, however, that uses a Symlink. This method requires moving /Users/Shared/UnrealEngine folder to external drive and creating a symbolic link to new location in old folder. If you want to try it this way, these are steps you can take:

  1. Backup UnrealEngine folder found in /Users/Shared
  2. Move UnrealEngine folder to drive engine is to be installed to. This can be done with following terminal command (without quotation marks): “Sudo mv /Users/Shared/UnrealEngine /Destination/Location/” (Note: there is a space between path of folder that is being moved and destination it is being moved to)
  3. Enter admin password when prompted
  4. Create a symlink in older UnrealEngine folder location and point it at new UnrealEngine location: “Ln –s /Destination/Location/Shared /Users/Shared/UnrealEngine”

Essentially what this does is create a shortcut in old location (/Users/Shared/UnrealEngine) and redirects everything to new location that you specified. When Launcher attempts to copy/install engine files to /Users/Shared/UnrealEngine, they will be re-directed to that new location as well.

Hi AJatVRSFXdotcom,

My apologies but I don’t have a date or release timeline for it right now. If you are on a Mac you can look at SymLink option in answer below.

I’ll update this thread and we’ll have some more info in forums when this feature is closer to shipping.

No worries, I bit bullet and did a hard drive overhaul to make room. Too bad my laptop has a sad graphics card that can’t keep up with your renderer. Other than that, I’m having a blast with UE4. Definitely a huge step up from Unity, graphics-wise. And blueprint functionality looks pretty sweet too. Anyways, I appreciate you getting back to me.

In step 4 you have target and destination directory backwards for MacOS X

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/ln.1.html

Hey, seen a couple of posts on this, still have no luck. Any update on installer functionality for installing to different drive on Mac, TY.

Hi williamian,

Not at this time. Currently Launcher needs to be installed to your boot drive. If you are using a Mac, you have another option; see Answer regarding using Symlinks.

and it’s ‘ln’ not ‘Ln’. Unix shell commands are case-sensitive!

No ‘C’ drive on macs or linux machines. This is a DOS concept.