Whenever I try changing game directories I get this random error, I don't know if this is a bug or an upcomming feature but I dont like. Pls fix so I can have multiple directories. And now for some feedback: PLEASE MAKE IT EASIER TO SWITCH BETWEEN BETA AND NORMAL LAUNCHER CUS NOW I HAVE TO REINSTALL LAUNCHER (sorry for caps).
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Confirmed, Launcher 2.1.2031-beta on Windows 7.
@unknown I got 2 directories, one is the default .minecraft, the second one is for snapshots only, so I called it .mc-snaps.
I didn't have any problems previously, but I get the same error with the Beta-Launcher.
I think I could reproduce it / got a suspicion how this happened:
In my regular Launcher, I got the snapshot profile set to .mc-snaps.
For some reason - without any doing from my side - the Beta-Launcher must have reset the game directory from .mc-snaps to default .minecraft in the regular Launcher, which then "backfired" against the Beta-Launcher, as it didn't allow it to have a different directory than the regular Launcher.
I currently assume that the Beta-Launcher and the regular Launcher are somehow connected in a way, and when the Beta-Launcher reset the game directory for the regular Launcher, I couldn't set a different game directory anymore for the Beta-Launcher, as it seems to "know" that the snapshot-game directory of the regular Launcher is .minecraft.
I could reproduce this like so:
1. Start the regular Launcher, set the snapshot-directory to something else than default, e.g. .mc-snaps, click "Save"
2. Start the Beta-Launcher, try to set the snapshot-directory to something else than .mc-snaps, e.g. the default .minecraft, click "Save"
>>> Get the error as the screenshots show
>>> Notice that, although you got that error, it still set the snapshot-directory to the default .minecraft
3. Try to set the Beta-Launcher snapshot-directory again to .mc-snaps
>>> Get the same error again.
4. Start the regular Launcher, look into the settings of your snapshot-directory, which you had previously set to .mc-snaps
>>> Notice that the error which occurred in the Beta-Launcher reset the snapshot-directory of the regular Launcher
TLDR: You cannot have 2 different game directories separately for Beta- as well as regular Launcher; Beta-Launcher seems to have overwritten the custom game directory entry of the regular Launcher, and in general both Launchers seem to share the "information" as of where the other Launcher sets their directories for each profile to.
What sort of directory are you setting?