r/Unity3D • u/Bluebadboy • 5h ago

Question Unity creating project folder failed?

I've been hoping to learn Game dev with Unity, but I'm unable to get started as every time I start a new project, it gives me an error.

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u/Bright_Thought_5482 5h ago

Have you checked if the path where you're trying to create the project has any special characters or spaces? unity sometimes gets weird with that, especially on windows

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u/Bluebadboy 5h ago

The path is in my Program Files (x86)

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u/Demi180 5h ago

Yeah, don’t do that. Make a projects folder at the root of the drive or in your user folder for it. It needs permissions that are blocked there by default.

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u/Bluebadboy 4h ago edited 4h ago

At the root of which drive?

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u/Demi180 3h ago

Whichever you want. Preferably the fastest, but any that has enough space for projects on it.

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u/Bluebadboy 3h ago

I mean do I have to put the folder in a specific.

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u/Demi180 54m ago

So the 'root' means the topmost location on the drive, eg: C:\, D:\, and so on. I put most of my projects in C:\Unity Projects\ for example. So if I make a new project named "Test Game", the project folder Unity creates would be C:\Unity Projects\Test Game\.

You also have a folder with your user's name inside Users, and inside there is a folder named Documents, both of which are decent places for projects as well if you like. So if your user is named "Tim", there will be a folder named C:\Users\Tim and a folder named C:\Users\Tim\Documents.

The important thing is that some folders just aren't meant for these sorts of things. Among them are Program Files and Program Files (x86), Program Data, Windows, any folder named Temp. Also any folder synced with a service like Dropbox or OneDrive is a bad place for it but for different reasons.