Hello everyone, everything good?

I want to move MSFS to another SSD and I would like to know if I can save my joystick, hotkeys and camera settings to use in the new installation, without having to configure everything again. If possible, could someone tell me how?

Thanks!

6 minutes ago, Trovis said:

Hello everyone, everything good?

I want to move MSFS to another SSD and I would like to know if I can save my joystick, hotkeys and camera settings to use in the new installation, without having to configure everything again. If possible, could someone tell me how?

Thanks!

When I recently moved to a whole new system I was very relieved to find that all my controller settings had been saved without me having to do anything. My previous system had crashed and I never got it back again so everything must have been saved in the cloud by default.  

All your settings are saved under your Xbox profile on the cloud, so you do not have to worry about losing them in a reinstallation.

I had to reinstall MSFS after last update and I lost all custom views in every airvraft but settings were still untouched.

While it is true that a lot of settings are saved to the "cloud", not all of them are.

If you are simply moving the main installation to a new drive, then don't worry about it. The non-cloud settings are saved in AppData (specifically, "%appdata%\Microsoft Flight Simulator\") and will be used after moving the main data to the new drive.

If you are moving to a new computer, it is best to let the sim create new settings, in particular the UserCfg.opt file which contains mostly graphics settings which will no doubt be different with new hardware. However, if you wish to keep your custom camera settings, then copy this folder from the old PC to the new PC: "%appdata%\Microsoft Flight Simulator\SimObjects\Airplanes\". This would also be the folder to backup in case you need to reinstall completely from scratch.

...jim