Melchior

ooh ok so its not effecting me then ok thx for the info.

hmm interesting...

does this effect the cheat command /experience?

of course I gave my self exp 365 levels of it or so before I had any gear at the beginning of a new v1.20.4 world.

are the devs going to fix this a all?!
or will I be forced to continue with the workaround forever?!

No I'm not saying that...
I'm saying that this command line does works fine as a workaround.... but I should not have to resort to using it...
since a junction should being working just fine... like it did in all previous versions of the Minecraft Launcher...
with this issue only occurring in the MCL v2.0 and newer...

this is the modified shortcut I will be forced to use to keep my Minecraft running like normal..

F:\JoeGames_Minecraft\MinecraftLauncher.exe --workDir F:\JoeGames_Minecraft\.minecraft

This is the junction command line I use to create the junction I use...

junction "%AppData%\.minecraft" F:\JoeGames_Minecraft\.minecraft

please note that the %AppData% variable auto targets the roaming directory by default so its not needed in the cmd line...

Junctions can be downloaded from System Internals website here for testing..
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx

#MCL-5294 only explains so so...

MCL-5385 'Game directory is invalid or inaccessible' when a junction is used or an appdata environment path is used

#MCL-5385 mentions the use of junctions not working....

Mentioned in report 5294, this works as a work around.. but is simple not a good fix... as junctions are supposed to be transparent... and should not be affecting "C:\Users\UserFolder\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft" write location
"--workDir F:\JoeGames_Minecraft\.minecraft"

please reopen my ticket... and find a good fix for this, junctions worked just fine in all previous releases of the Minecraft Launcher...

Application Data directory: C:\Users\Melchior\AppData\Roaming/.minecraft
Note the forward-slash instead of a backslash... is this just an typo error or is it effecting the launchers functionality as a part of this bug I am reporting on...??

This is the log file containing the references to downloading to AppData/Roaming and not writing/accessing to .minecraft folder....
it should be noted that I found this file in the correct location in .minecraft folder.... strange...