November 7, 20214 yr I am hoping someone here can provide some help. I tried moving MSFS to my new 2tb ssd. I changed the drive for Steam to look to/move then it basically downloaded and resintalled. More problems are: I still have MSFS in the orginal C drive-how do I delete- I treid uninstalling and just deleting...they are still there. I can't get Navigraph to install navdata in the new location-it says it can't find/access msfs. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Edited November 7, 20214 yr by Richard Jacks
November 7, 20214 yr Most of MSFS resides outside of Steam. When you change the location in Steam, it only changes the location of the launcher that Steam uses to start MSFS. The way I've done it is to back up the packages folder, then uninstall MSFS. Then reinstall MSFS to the new drive, and run MSFS. When it starts downloading/installing the package files as part of the first run, cancel and get out of MSFS. Copy the backed-up packages folder to the new packages folder on the new drive, and then start MSFS. You will most likely lose any settings that were saved in the cloud, but forego 100+GB of downloads. Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
November 9, 20214 yr Author On 11/7/2021 at 9:50 AM, w6kd said: Most of MSFS resides outside of Steam. When you change the location in Steam, it only changes the location of the launcher that Steam uses to start MSFS. The way I've done it is to back up the packages folder, then uninstall MSFS. Then reinstall MSFS to the new drive, and run MSFS. When it starts downloading/installing the package files as part of the first run, cancel and get out of MSFS. Copy the backed-up packages folder to the new packages folder on the new drive, and then start MSFS. You will most likely lose any settings that were saved in the cloud, but forego 100+GB of downloads. Thanks for your advice. I got everything working but I seen userconfig file is still on the old drive. I even tried to change the name of flightsim folder and it just created a new one. I would prefer msfs to only operate from the newer larger ssd. Thanks
November 9, 20214 yr the user config files should be stored on whatever drive windows is installed on. Edited November 9, 20214 yr by Tuskin38
November 9, 20214 yr Author 17 hours ago, Tuskin38 said: the user config files should be stored on whatever drive windows is installed on. ahhh, well I guess that is correct then, just seemed strange. thanks!
November 9, 20214 yr 21 hours ago, Tuskin38 said: the user config files should be stored on whatever drive windows is installed on. Interestingly, on my system, the MS Store installed all folders that are placed below C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe as links to WpSystem on my MSFS drive.. including the LocalCache folder which you are referring to.. Edited November 9, 20214 yr by Bert Pieke Bert
November 9, 20214 yr Author 2 hours ago, Bert Pieke said: Interestingly, on my system, the MS Store installed all folders below C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe as links to WpSystem on my MSFS drive.. including the LocalCache folder which you are referring to.. maybe thats a difference between Steam and MS Store installs?
November 9, 20214 yr Just now, Richard Jacks said: maybe thats a difference between Steam and MS Store installs? Very likely.. Bert
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