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hopefully someone can help. i had p.c issues a few weeks ago with latest windows update.i had to reinstall golf, in the process i lost all my courses..
just noticed i havent the stock courses that come with the game, so thinking i could save the course file to desktop, and uninstall/reinstall the game..my p.c is telling me i have not enough room on my hard drive. the fils is 26.8 gb and the space on my hd 681 gb...
i have validated game on steam and alls ok..so the question is can i set which h/d the desktop goes to or is there alot easier solution?
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Les,

If you have installed Steam on the usual C: drive then Perfect Golf will install underneath it in steamapps\common\Perfect Golf\ and the courses will then be in the "courses folder underneath that.

I believe you can specify where Perfect Golf gets installed when you do install it but if you can are you able to uninstall Steam and install it on your 1Tb hard drive.
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hi mark thanks for reply, it installed on my f:drive, which is my 2nd drive 1tb
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Okay use my PGLS Courses Checker utility and see where it tells you Perfect Golf is installed.

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Just had a thought. Your Desktop defaults to the C: drive. Try copying and pasting the courses folder to the root of the F: drive eg f:\courses then uninstall PG.
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think theres a problem somewhere, did course checker scan,its on correct drive but it says 143 valid courses loaded from courses folder and 415 loaded from pgls database, im not sure but not all 143 are loaded, i know woodys is missing for 1
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Did you install Steam on the F: drive and PG is installed underneath it, or the default C: drive ?
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steam is installed on F: and golf is through steam via steamapps. ok so i have copied and saved course file to F: is it worth uninstalling steam and reinstalling?
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It might be an idea yes, although that rather depends on how many other games are reliant on Steam. Once uninstalled, reboot and make sure the Steam folder doesn't exist anywhere on C: and F:
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Always copy your course folder to a second internal or external drive. Once that is done simply copy newer courses to both the main course folder and the second course folder on the other drive.

Note to all: Never rely on one HDD or SSD. Always have a second internal or external HDD or SSD for System Image Backups and storage backups that can easily be accessed on a second drive i.e. course files, music, videos, documents etc.

Not having a second drive for backup is like driving a car without liability insurance. You hope you never have to use the System Image Backup but if it's not there when you need it, your huge collections of files vaporize when your single drive permanently crashes. Tip: SSD drives are far more reliable and will last for years. I still have a Samsung 850 installed in my system that I purchased in 2014. I have formatted it at least 8 times since then. Still runs like new.

See how it performs to this day: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/19353339
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