Bad path causes Failed to locate NMS install: path doesn't exist with custom value

[CrankyCat]

NMC searches a list of predefined folders to search for the No Man's Sky binaries but my install isn't one of them. It's actually "C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky".

I tried putting this in my settings: "installDirectory":"C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky"

There appears to be an issue with the path formation if a custom setting for the install directory is chosen. In my case, this is where NMC actually looks for the install: C:\Users\William\AppData\Local\Programs\NoMansConnect\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky D:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky E:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky S:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky Z:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky

It apparently appends the path to the NMC install path for the first attempt before checking other drives for the same path. This may also be why my screenshots don't work.

• Windows version: 10 Professional 10.0.19041
• NMC version 1.10.1
• Absolute path to your storage_x.hg files: C:\Users\Cranky\AppData\Roaming\HelloGames\NMS\st_76561198064585647
• Absolute path to your NMS install directory: C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky

[CrankyCat]

I even tried to trick it by setting the install folder to the D: driver but it still tried the C drive first and appended the C path to the path of NMC.

[CrankyCat]

I created a symbolic link for c:\games to d:\games and that seemed to avoid the error message. I still don't get screenshots though :)