May 31, 20179 yr Hi I install my P3D versions onto a dedicated drive, like most of us probably do. But as I understand it, P3Dv4 will automatically install scenery files into the Prepr3dV4 folder in the 'Documents' folder, usually resident on the C: (OS) drive. Who is relocating the folder to their main sim drive?
May 31, 20179 yr 5 minutes ago, ErichB said: Hi I install my P3D versions onto a dedicated drive, like most of us probably do. But as I understand it, P3Dv4 will automatically install scenery files into the Prepr3dV4 folder in the 'Documents' folder, usually resident on the C: (OS) drive. Who is relocating the folder to their main sim drive? Good question. I certainly don't want to use my C drive, that's for sure System: MSFS2024, ASUS Rog Stryx Z790-A, Intel i9-14900KF, Asus ROG Ryujin III 360 , Asus Hyperion Case,Rog Stryx 4090 OC, Samsung 970 EVO M.2 SSD, 1Tb Samsung 860 EVO SSD,64Gb G Skill Memory, Asus Aura 1200W Gold PSU,Win 11 ,LG C4 48" 4K OLED Screen., Airbus TCA Full Kit, Stream Deck XL. WinWing FCU, EFIS, MCDU
May 31, 20179 yr 6 minutes ago, ErichB said: Hi I install my P3D versions onto a dedicated drive, like most of us probably do. But as I understand it, P3Dv4 will automatically install scenery files into the Prepr3dV4 folder in the 'Documents' folder, usually resident on the C: (OS) drive. Who is relocating the folder to their main sim drive? If you move addon manager folder to another location the documents folder only hold XML files, so of no worry concerning space 32GB ddr4, [email protected], Zotac 1080ti Extreme
May 31, 20179 yr Author There is a way to do it apparently. There's a flightsim related YT video floating around (i think Sky Lounge?) - i think he shows you how. I don't want any flightsim related stuff on my OS drive - especially not mingled with my personal folders. Poppet/Rob - are you able to confirm what gets installed here? I understand things are different with V4
May 31, 20179 yr 4 minutes ago, kurtb said: as i have understood you cannot move the folder "documents" out of your os You can reasign documents folder to any folder on any drive. Same, you can make folder anywhere and link it as dedicated folder on drive c in your documents, or just install everything to any location, you are not forced to use that folder. I have shared addons for P3Dv3 and v4 even FSX/FSW at one place and just use propher cfg entries to point them from that location i7-8700k, RTX2070 Super, custom water cooling, 32GB RAM, 6TB SSD spacePrepar3D v4, X-Plane 11, 40" 4k TVRex, Active Sky, RealAir and A2A pilot, GTN, ORBX mostly everywhere
May 31, 20179 yr Author 14 minutes ago, Jiri Kocman said: I have shared addons for P3Dv3 and v4 even FSX/FSW at one place and just use propher cfg entries to point them from that location Good to know. A cfg entry actually makes sense, thanks
May 31, 20179 yr Right click on my documents go to properties and then location tab to move it, then restart your system. Pretty easy to do and all part of windows, I do it for all my systems so the little OS SSD doesn't get full of random document rubbish. Regarding the native P3Dv4 Addon structure you can find more info in your P3D documentation. For A2A C172 customers updating yesterday I posted this to help break it down. But I do recommend reading through the P3D documentation itself. http://a2asimulations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=59802
May 31, 20179 yr I watched this video yesterday. Worked like a charm -.- . ...- .. -. Kevin ConlonPharmacist, Pilot and Parrot Head I9-9900K 4.9GHz | RTX 2080 TI FE | 27" Asus Monitors x 3| MSI Z370 | Crucial M.2 NVMe 1TB | Samsung SSD 500GB x 2 | Toshiba HDD 2TB | WDC HDD 2TB | 32 GB DDR4 3600C17 | Windows 10
May 31, 20179 yr Before I move this folder out of the OS, do we know for sure that scenery add ons get added here? That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. Rick Abshier 5900X | RTX 5070 Ti OC| 64 GB@3600 | India Pale Ale
May 31, 20179 yr 1 hour ago, ricka47 said: Before I move this folder out of the OS, do we know for sure that scenery add ons get added here? That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. It's an option for developers to take advantage of if they care to do so. Most addons are still installed into the main P3D folder, e.g. ORBX, UK2000 etc.
May 31, 20179 yr That's a dumb move in my eyes, application files are no documents... I hope it works with redirecting the Prepar3d folders via junctions, as my documents folder is on a slow hdd for a reason (> 1 TB of documents) and I obviously want my sim data on one of the ssds. Windows 11 Pro - Ryzen 3 5900X - nVidia RTX 4090 - 32GB DDR4-3600 === Microsoft Flight Simulator
May 31, 20179 yr 10 minutes ago, touchdown84 said: That's a dumb move in my eyes, application files are no documents... I hope it works with redirecting the Prepar3d folders via junctions, as my documents folder is on a slow hdd for a reason (> 1 TB of documents) and I obviously want my sim data on one of the ssds. I deleted my empty Prepar3D v4 Add-ons folder first before creating the junction. If yours is not empty, just rename the folder to something arbitrary, create the junction, and copy its contents into the newly created junction. Daniel Moser
May 31, 20179 yr 30 minutes ago, touchdown84 said: That's a dumb move in my eyes, application files are no documents... They are documents, The files are only small xml files for each addon pointing to the addons real location, its done this way so you do not need to reinstall all your addons when you do a clean reinstall of the Sim. A fresh install of V4 will automatically add your addons on first run, this is a much better system, and no more issues with badly written installers trashing your dll.xml and exe.xml files
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