Tip: Libraries and/or Favorites in Win7 for SC2 Replays

Note: this requires Windows 7.

Instead of going through several folders to get to your StarCraft 2 replays you should create a Library or a Favorite link to your replay folder for easy access. I’m going to go through how to do this step by step in this blog-post.

First thing you need to do is start Windows Explorer, which is pretty easy to do, and I don’t doubt anyone will have any issues with doing this.

Adding a folder to the Favorites

First you need to browse to the location you want to add to your favorites. The StarCraft 2 Replays folders are located in C:\Users\<Username>\Documents\StarCraft II\Accounts\#digits#\2-S2-~-~#digits~~\.

Find the line that says Favorites in the top left of the navigation pane. Right-click the line that says Favorites which is easily recognizable by the yellow star icon.

Then you select “Add current location to Favorites”. If you can’t see the Favorites line, go to Organize > Layout > Navigation Pane, and you should see it.

Creating a Library

A Library is basically a folder of links to folders. They don’t actually store anything, but make it easier for you to organize the folders on your computer without having to move things around.

You find the Libraries beneath the Favorites in the Navigation pane. To create a new library simply right-click the Libraries line and go to New > Library.

Once you have created and named your Library, right-click it and go to Properties.

Click “Include a folder…” and browse to the folder you want to add to this library. Do this for all the folders you want in this library. As you can see in the picture above I have the Replays, Maps and Banks folders in my StarCraft II library. Maps I have created myself, and Banks is where you find the text file where you add new build orders to YABOT; Yet Another Build Order Tool.

I hope this was a useful guide and that you start exploring the wonders of the Windows 7 library, which is such a simple but useful addition to the operative system.

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