I bought MSFS on steam and chose my f: drive (HD) - OS Win10 for the installation

everything works fine, but now I would like to move it to my e: drive (SSD)

the only thing I found was this: "from Windows settings from the start menu, go to apps. Find the app you want to move, click it, click move, choose new location"

when I do this, it doesn't give me the option to move, only to uninstall.

Is there any other way to move the installation, or do I have to uninstall and reinstall with the entire download again?

 

Thanks for any help.

Edited September 7, 20205 yr by Data
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Since you bought it from Steam, you need to move it using the Steam application. It allows you to move games to other drives/folders.

I was ready to reinstall it, so I had nothing to lose and just tried something crazy. LOL
I copied the entire folder from my f drive to my d drive and deleted the folder on the f drive.

I started the sim and it went to the first screen. then the screen appeared where it asked where I want to download and install. I pointed to the folder on my d drive and it took a few seconds and the screen for the settings appeared.
I only did a few settings, like full screen and resolution, everything else seemed to be as it was.
I closed the sim and rebooted my computer, started the sim and did a flight with no apparent issues.
If this works, I'm totally blown away how easy it was. Otherwise I will just remove and reinstall it. I'll come back and post if I find problems.

simple, open steam, library, select game, right click, properties, change install drive... done

Glad that worked, I don't think this will be as easy for the windows store purchasers as their directory is locked. Interesting information though.

On 9/8/2020 at 2:31 AM, Data said:

I was ready to reinstall it, so I had nothing to lose and just tried something crazy. LOL
I copied the entire folder from my f drive to my d drive and deleted the folder on the f drive.

I started the sim and it went to the first screen. then the screen appeared where it asked where I want to download and install. I pointed to the folder on my d drive and it took a few seconds and the screen for the settings appeared.
I only did a few settings, like full screen and resolution, everything else seemed to be as it was.
I closed the sim and rebooted my computer, started the sim and did a flight with no apparent issues.
If this works, I'm totally blown away how easy it was. Otherwise I will just remove and reinstall it. I'll come back and post if I find problems.

just about to do this (have the steam version) when you say copy the entire folder do you mean the "Microsoft Flight Simulator" folder in the roaming/appdata folders or do you mean moving the "packages" folder containing the "community" and "official" folder?

As others have said, Steam has a built in way of moving games to different locations or drives. I would use that. I have done it with others games and it works perfect. 

6 hours ago, reignman40 said:

As others have said, Steam has a built in way of moving games to different locations or drives. I would use that. I have done it with others games and it works perfect. 

thanks for the reply.

yes very familiar with the steam system to move games to another drive (have used it about 10 times successfully!) - but in this MSFS case this will only move about 1gb of the 100gb of files and it does not touch any of the files such as the community or official folder which have to be manually - hence the original question about how other people have moved the files ...............

Edited May 17, 20215 yr by mac44