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American McGee's Alice - "Hard Disk Full" save fix

By Turbš

For those wishing to play American McGee's Alice, but find themselves unable to save, due to it claiming to have no hard disk space, then take heed of this guide. It will be a short and sweet fix for something as major as actually being able to save.

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Turbš
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Category: Gameplay Basics, Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

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15 Aug, 2022 @ 6:49pm

2 Nov, 2023 @ 9:10am

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Guide Index

Overview

Step 1 - Moving Alice1 Folder

Step 2 - Editing AliceEngine.ini

Situational Step - Create Partition on Main Disk

Conclusion

Comments

Overview

In this guide, we will be doing two choice steps in making sure that your game can save:

Step 1 - Move Alice1 folder to primary disk drive
Step 2 - Edit AliceEngine.ini pathway for the Alice game

Step 1 - Moving Alice1 Folder

This guide assumes that you have already obtained the Alice1 folder via one of the other guides talking about how to access the DLC content for Alice: Madness Returns.

Simply put the Alice1 folder from where you may have originally installed it in the Madness Returns directory into your primary disk drive. Picture shows where I moved mine.

Step 2 - Editing AliceEngine.ini

To remind those of where this ini is at, go to:
My Documents > My Games > Alice Madness Returns > AliceGame > Config > AliceEngine.ini

Once you are there, open it up with a text editor and then scroll all the way down to where the parameter for the DLC indicator is at.

Insert the pathway to the new location that you put the Alice1 folder in as shown.

Situational Step - Create Partition on Main Disk

There have been two cases now of people's main drives being seen as external by their own computers. If the solution provided by my guide still doesn't work, the chances are that you need to create a partition within the main drive, and move the game there, so that it can properly save in that location.

Conclusion

Launch Alice from inside Alice: Madness Returns and then rejoice as you are then able to save with the slots provided to you without error!

22 Comments

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Turbš [author] 7 Jul @ 4:17pm

That's great to hear! I hope you enjoy the game!

UnknownOx224 7 Jul @ 2:54pm

This worked for me, just wanted to say thank you :)

Turbš [author] 26 Jan @ 4:38pm

You create partitions in Disk Management iirc

Alek_Sturmgarde 16 Jan @ 11:38pm

so, like, how do you make a partition? I've tried moving the files around, and still nada...

Nom_XD 4 Nov, 2024 @ 10:18pm

Install in a FAT partition. If your hard drive doesn't have one, usually a pendrive does.

Turbš [author] 29 Sep, 2024 @ 6:02pm

Old games really find interesting ways to break on us.
Thanks for the added info, Argentius Draconis.

Argentius Draconis 28 Sep, 2024 @ 10:35pm

Same problem, new answer: I tried moving the game in my steam library, I noticed that when I fixed the path in the .ini, that the path was much shorter now, since my c drive folder is directly in the c drive, while my normal installation drive is the e drive: it has a much longer path. Some games, especially older ones, have a path length limit. As soon as I moved it to the shorter path, save works as expected :) hope this helps anybody still having trouble!!!

Turbš [author] 17 Jun, 2024 @ 4:01pm

I don't believe so. My primary disk drive is an SSD as well.

Alek_Sturmgarde 2 Jun, 2024 @ 8:12am

so, i'm on an ssd. would that be anything different?

Turbš [author] 6 Feb, 2024 @ 8:25pm

Glad to hear that it helped out at the very least, and that shortcut trick looks extremely useful as well. Enjoy playing the game^

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