tried moving MSFS to a new SSD

[Richard Jacks 23]

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, 2021 by Richard Jacks

[Bob Scott 7,720]

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.

[Richard Jacks 23]

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

[Tuskin38 6,490]

the user config files should be stored on whatever drive windows is installed on.

Edited November 9, 2021 by Tuskin38

[Richard Jacks 23]

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!

[Bert Pieke 7,585]

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, 2021 by Bert Pieke

[Richard Jacks 23]

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?

[Bert Pieke 7,585]

Just now, Richard Jacks said:

maybe thats a difference between Steam and MS Store installs?

Very likely..