Editing settings.ini vs creating a junction

Creating a junction:
- Open command prompt, either by pressing `windows key + R` and typing `cmd` and hitting enter, or clicking the address bar and typing `cmd` and pressing enter
- Make sure you don't have a Songs folder inside your Clone Hero folder, and then type `mklink /J "`. Paste your game's directory and add `\Songs" ` to the end of it. Now paste the new directory for your Songs folder and surround it in quotes. **The order of these two folders is important, do not switch them around.**
- You should have something like this written in command prompt:
	mklink /J "C:\Games\Clone Hero\Songs" "D:\Songs"
- If you do, press enter and the junction folder will be created.
- Go play Clone Hero, no need to rescan your songs.
Note: this method can be used for your Screenshots and Custom folders as well. All you have to do is repeat the steps with those folder names instead of Songs.



Run down of why you want to edit your settings.ini:
- If you keep only one version of Clone Hero and you update your game by following the !update command, then this is something you do only once and forget about it forever.
- No need to touch that scary command prompt
- Simple and easy to set up
Things to remember about editing your settings.ini:
- If you lose your settings.ini one way or another, be it by a complete reinstall, you forgot to copy it, it got deleted, etc., you'll need to redo your directory path(s) and all your settings.
- If you use multiple foldes for CH you'll need to copy your settings.ini over to the other CH folder if you don't want to start with an almost brand-new CH install.
- You'll need to rescan your songs if you add a new path or move the Songs folder.
Cons about editing your settings.ini:
- Limited to only defining another place for CH to scan for songs.
- If you have multiple CH folders, you'll need to make any changes you do to one settings.ini to all of the settings.inis, and that can get annoying, even with copy and pasting.



What is a junction?
You can think of a junction as a shortcut to a folder in layman's terms. What a junction does is it tricks your to computer think that the folder it's linking to is actually there without taking up any extra space on your harddrive. You can use the junction folder exactly like a normal folder, and it'll make any changes that you do affect the real folder (because you are in the real folder, you're just accessing it from a different location.) Please note that a junction is not actually a shortcut.

Run down of why you want to make a junction:
- If you have multiple folders for CH for whatever reason, be it different settings, they're different versions, they're modded, etc., you can make all of those have junctions linking to your Songs, Custom, and Sceenshots folders and whatever change you do to those folders will be reflected in all of your CH installs and you can access all of those folders very quickly and easily.
- You're fine with using a simple command in cmd.
- You don't need to rescan your songs after the initial set up because your computer thinks the folder is actually there, and to the computer, it looks like nothing has changed. You'll still need to rescan your songs if you make any changes inside the Songs folder, obviously.
Things to remember about using a junction:
- You can't copy/cut just a junction without copying ALL of the folder's contents. Remember, while you can think of a junction as a shortcut, it is not actually a shortcut. Your computer treats it as if the folder is actually there. (You can safely delete the junction without deleting the actual folder, though.) You can copy/cut the parent folder that contains a junction without copying the junction folder's contents.
- If you're making multiple junctions in one sitting, you can make things a bit quicker by pressing the up arrow to access previously used commands in the current session of cmd and then edit what you need to edit. Alternatively, you can set up a batch file to automate creating junctions.
Cons of junctions:
- You need to redo them in cmd every time you make a new CH install.
- Kinda pointless if you only have one CH install. Edit your settings.ini instead, unless you want a shortcut to your songs folder inside of your game's folder.
- Doesn't support multiple Songs folders.