Hi all,

I am trying to find this but so far I can't find it. 

During installation I installed MSFS in a custom location, however the community folder is still located under the C drive. I bought MSFS from the Windows store. I would like to find this setting during installation where I could set the community folder location and put it on my MSFS installation path instead of the C default path. Is it possible to do this or I have to reinstall MSFS? 

Are you sure it's on the C drive and not a symbolic link? I installed my MSFS on my F drive and the community folder is there also.

Vic

30 minutes ago, vgbaron said:

Are you sure it's on the C drive and not a symbolic link? I installed my MSFS on my F drive and the community folder is there also.

 

My experience. D drive in my case.

2 hours ago, vgbaron said:

Are you sure it's on the C drive and not a symbolic link? I installed my MSFS on my F drive and the community folder is there also.

Vic

I also installed MSFS on my F drive, however there is no Community folder there. The Community folder is located at C:\Users\Ifikratis\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages

However the folder "LocalCache" is showing as a link I guess a symbolic link. I can create symbolic links to this location however I'd like to have a more clean structure if possible. Especially when installers start to find the default location. I wouldn't like to manually then cut-paste files. 

 

If that is truly a 'symbolic link' then the Registry entries were made correctly and any installers should have no problem finding MSFS on your "F drive."

 

18 minutes ago, n4gix said:

If that is truly a 'symbolic link' then the Registry entries were made correctly and any installers should have no problem finding MSFS on your "F drive."

 

Thank you for the reply. However when I install using an installer like ORBX, the sceneries are installed on the C drive in the directory I mentioned. 

So that is why I want to change this so the sceneries are installed on the same drive where MSFS is installed. Is there a way to do this?

Edited September 13, 20205 yr by ComSimPilot

Orbx allows you to put the scenery where you want it and it just puts a symbolic link in the Community folder but you have to specify where. Create a library on another drive and point the installer to that.

If you follow that local cache linik in your appdata I think you'll find it is pointing to your MSFS install location. All that's on the C drive is the link not the actual files. Be wary of playing around with existing symbolic links, it is very easy to mess them up enough that a complete reinstall is the only way to square it away.

7 hours ago, vgbaron said:

Orbx allows you to put the scenery where you want it and it just puts a symbolic link in the Community folder but you have to specify where. Create a library on another drive and point the installer to that.

If you follow that local cache linik in your appdata I think you'll find it is pointing to your MSFS install location. All that's on the C drive is the link not the actual files. Be wary of playing around with existing symbolic links, it is very easy to mess them up enough that a complete reinstall is the only way to square it away.

It seems that's not the case unfortunately. I installed the freeware ORBX airport and observed that the total available space was reduced from my C drive instead of F where MSFS is. Yes, I know about the symbolic links if I create a library elsewhere with ORBX, but not all developers will offer this library method I'm afraid. So, in the long term I'll have to manually cut/paste/create symbolic links if I don't want sceneries from using my C space. 

From your answers it seems there is no way to fix this other than uninstall-reinstall MSFS? That would be a huge time undertaking...

Thank you all for your replies. If anyone has any idea I would be very grateful to know. 

So it seems nobody knows a way of how to do this.. Its annoying to say at least that Asobo didn't gave us an option to configure the install location of add-on products after install. 

20 hours ago, ComSimPilot said:

I also installed MSFS on my F drive, however there is no Community folder there. The Community folder is located at C:\Users\Ifikratis\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages

However the folder "LocalCache" is showing as a link I guess a symbolic link. I can create symbolic links to this location however I'd like to have a more clean structure if possible. Especially when installers start to find the default location. I wouldn't like to manually then cut-paste files. 

 

It is confusing to say the least, but I am looking at the same thing and File Explorer is following the link to show the content.  It appears that it is on the C drive, but it is actually on my dedicated H drive.  As best I can tell LocalCache is not a real folder but a "virtual folder".

If I go up one level from Local Cache to the Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8weky.... entry and check Properties, it shows me only 500 kbytes.

Edited September 14, 20205 yr by Bert Pieke

9 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

It is confusing to say the least, but I am looking at the same thing and File Explorer is following the link to show the content.  It appears that it is on the C drive, but it is actually on my dedicated H drive.  As best I can tell LocalCache is not a real folder but a "virtual folder".

Bert thank you so much for looking into it. This is so weird. Maybe my mistake. Yesterday I installed ORBX freeware for MSFS and I saw the C drive space becoming less. Today I emptied the Community folder and installed files there, and indeed it was the MSFS drive that showed to lose space. So seems you are absolutely right. It is a virtual folder and the actual space is consumed on where MSFS is installed. Good! Don't know why I got this contradicting result yesterday. Nevertheless it seems I don't have to do anything. Thank you Bert and thank you all for your time! : )