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Global relocation of scenery/aircraft folders

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I am running out of drive space on my primary drive and it is slowing down. I have relocated some scenery to my secondary drive and changed scenery.cfg as needed, but is there a way I can just "cut" the addon scenery folder from FS9 and relocate the entire folder to my secondary drive? Also is there a way to do the same thing to my aircraft folder? I know I can relocate each separate scenery folder in the addon folder to a separate drive, but I thought there was an easier way to do the whole folder at one time. Thanks for any help!Airbus

Al Kaupa

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but is there a way I can just "cut" the addon scenery folder from FS9 and relocate the entire folder to my secondary drive?
Yes, the same way you did with your other scenery folders.As long as you do a search/replace in your scenery.cfg of 'Addon Scenery' with 'Your New Drive & Folder Path'\Addon SceneryJust to be sure: Making a back up before moving/editing won't harm ;-)

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And for the aircraft folders you could free up space by moving sounds, panels, and textures to the secondary drive and aliasing everything to the moved folders, but surely you have some aircraft you haven't loaded for months, so I think a better idea would be to move some of the less frequently used aircraft to a "hangar" folder on the 2nd drive. Just move the aircraft folders intact, no, the aircraft won't be available to you in the sim anymore, but it's a simple matter of moving the folder back into FS9\Aircraft if you ever want to fly a particular aircraft and you don't even have to restart the sim to do it. Don't run any gauge cleaners while the aircraft are missing or it'll delete the gauges associated with the hangared aircraft. A few extra gauges in the gauge folder doesn't hurt a thing.Jim

Move the Scenery folder to your other drive. Go to that drive, and navigate to the directory above the Scenery folder, so you see the icon. Right click the icon, and select "Create Shortcut." Drag the new "Shortcut to Scenery" folder back over to your FS9 folder. Right click on the folder, select "Rename" and change the name to Scenery. This should work with any folder, Aircraft, Sounds, or The Spanish Inquistion.

Move the Scenery folder to your other drive. Go to that drive, and navigate to the directory above the Scenery folder, so you see the icon. Right click the icon, and select "Create Shortcut." Drag the new "Shortcut to Scenery" folder back over to your FS9 folder. Right click on the folder, select "Rename" and change the name to Scenery. This should work with any folder, Aircraft, Sounds, or The Spanish Inquistion.
... it's a very elegant solution. Should I need to make space by moving things around, I'll be doing just that (I'd never thought of it).

Well I certainly wasn`t expecting the Spanish Inquisition.Nor was I expecting to find that the parrot had been nailed to its perch.

This should work with any folder, Aircraft, Sounds, or The Spanish Inquistion.
Perhaps it does work with The Spanish Inquisition, unfortunately it does not work with Scenery or Aircraft folders. I keep getting an error message, the Flight Sim will not even start. Ted

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