Can I move the Bioware folder from C:Documents to my D Drive?

Edit 2015/10/04: There have been some who have had problems with the change in the configuration file as explained here in the original. However, I would recommend you to try it first since it keeps the changes to the Dragon Age Origins program. Nevertheless, try the next solution of making a symbolic link instead (from my own reply on page 2):

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@lonori wrote:

I'm really sad to here that it doesn't seem to be working for people. Furthermore, I can't come up with any other configuration setting to change. However, there's always the solution that works outside Dragon Age Origins (on a operative system level). The idea is to create a symbolic link between the current folder path to where you want the stuff to be stored. This will make it look like there is a folder in My Documents that is called Bioware while in reality it only links to another folder stored somewhere else (kind of like the famous shortcuts). In windows you do it by doing the following:

1. Move your Bioware folder to its new location.
2. Open a Command line prompt (press windows button + r on the keyboard, the enter cmd in the run prompt and press enter).
3. Make sure that there is no folder called "C:\users\<your account name>\Documents\Bioware" before you do the next step (since it, potentially, could overwrite it. Not used to terminal in Windows but it definitely has the power to do so).
4. Type in: mklink /J "C:\users\<your account name>\Documents\Bioware" "<new location of the folder, e.g: D:\SaveGames\Bioware>" (the "/J" tells the linker that it's going to be a dictionary junction, the first string is the location that you want to make a link from and the last string is the target of the link).
5. Done!

In the case that you only want to move a subpart of the Bioware folder you'll just have to change the first string (and maybe you would want to change the second string to point to a more nicely named folder). Furthermore, on mac (and linux for that matter) the command would be: ln -s source_file target_file.

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Original message:

You could move the file but you would have to change the config file so that it reads (and writes hopefully) from the new folder.

Haven't worked with .xml and I haven't tried this on my own so I can't guarantee that it will work, but I think it will. Just make backups before you try.

1. Make a backup on everything you change and store it somewhere safe.
2. Copy the folder to the new drive.
3. Open the file DAOriginsConfig.xml in any text editor (notepad, notepad++, emacs, etc.). The file is located in {game directory}\data\
4. Don't forget to make a backup!
5. Replace all found entries of <string name="USERDATA_DIR">${CSIDL_PERSONAL}\BioWare\Dragon Age</string> with
   <string name="USERDATA_DIR">NEW_DIR</string> where NEW_DIR is the directory you copied the folder to, eg. D:\Games\Saves\BioWare\DragonAge
6. Make a quick test to see if it works to load.
7. Make a new save.
8. Restart the game and check so the new save worked properly.
9. Save all the previous backups just in case that you encounter an unknown error later on.
10. Remove the old save folder if you needed space
11. It would be kind if you could report if it works so that the rest of the community knows.

Good luck and don't be afraid to ask if there's anything else you want to ask about,

Lonori