Hi everybody,

 

In order to save space on my SSD harddisk, can i delete the Flight One software folder without causing problems to FSX. I believe that it only contains Flight one software installers but once all software are installed into FSX i can cut and paste it to another HDD. Right?. Thanks (i would save 11Go).

Yes, you should be able to. Any installers, downloaders can be installed on another drive, as long as you then specify the fsx drive for the actual addon. But a great bonus is the easy scenery management of fsx, you can stick any scenery anywhere, as long as you update the database. Scenery loading is not the slow bit of fsx, it's that damn setup screen.

 

Be careful. You may be able to delete the .EXE installers without damaging anything but there may be other files in that folder that are important. You may find Proof of Purchase files there that might be useful for renewing downloads or getting support and updates. There may also be licence files there that could have an impact on the proper functioning of your addons.

 

Rick

Hi everybody,

 

In order to save space on my SSD harddisk, can i delete the Flight One software folder without causing problems to FSX. I believe that it only contains Flight one software installers but once all software are installed into FSX i can cut and paste it to another HDD. Right?. Thanks (i would save 11Go).

 

I think the larger files can probably be deleted (or relocated) but, why don't you check with Flight1 support and ask your specific questions with the intent saving SSD storage space. I bet those guys will work with you on solving the problem.

 

Ray

Thank you guys.

I have the same problem with trying to save space. If you don't already know and you have a spare internal hard drive you can install add-ons such as Active Sky, REX, etc on you spare drive. I recently got a new system but just couldn't quite manage to afford the larger SSD drives so i took my old hard drive out of my other system which was quite large and installed that in the new one. It's a great space saver.

 

Hope this helps.

Get an USB external or internal storage device, their cheap, and store the F1 downloads/installers on it. Delete them off your SSD. I run a seperate SSD for OS, FSX and P3D. The f1 downloads always go to the OS C: drive. I just cut and paste them onto my USB storage drive then I have backups also. There is nouthing in the download for the program to run. Just the installer and Lic info. for reinstallation. Dont confuse F1 download with other Flight one folder that are require to run apps.

One thing I've always thought of but never tried is to have Windows compress folders to save SSD space. Assuming a fast processor, one would think it should work great with little slow down on a SSD, no?

I wonder why you put those files on the SSD? I never put anything on my FSX SSD, only things that HAVE to be installed into the FSX folder. Why put downloads and/or installers on a precious SSD?

 

About that Flight1 folder: don't simply delete but indeed copy it to another (regular) HD.

One thing I've always thought of but never tried is to have Windows compress folders to save SSD space. Assuming a fast processor, one would think it should work great with little slow down on a SSD, no?

 

AFAIK the decompression is done by your CPU on the fly. This could affect your frame rate by robbing cpu cycles from your flightsim.

 

I would suggest getting more info on the likely effects before proceeding.

Rather than delete anything from your SSD just yet move it to another location on your C: drive and see how you get on. If you don't have any problems then it would seem reasonable that you don't need those files on the SSD.