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Delete CGL GB Monsters?!

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Hello,

running slowly out of space of my 500gb SSD I had a look at the files there.

I see there that the first 5 monsteraddons are from Aerosoft, biggest one is EDDB with nearly 6(!)GB of data.
So, I have now swapped the CGL folder out of my addons and changed the layout.json accordingly as I heard that CGL files are mostly photoground?

 

Does anyone else has experience with deleting CGLs or could say what they contain exactly?
When I fly over EDDB now without the CGL I do not see much difference (but have not made a special before/after comaprison)

Only thing is a little ground anomaly one kilometer outside the airport. However what I see looks good with 4 GB less, makes me wonder what they do with this 4 Gb of data. And If I then can delete all the other monster CGL files from Aerosoft to get some free space again.

Guenter Steiner
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I wouldn’t touch it to be honest with you. Yes I’m pretty sure it contains the aerial images and probably the mesh and vector data along with it. I would say they include their own for a reason, more up to date, more inline with their scenery etc etc 

Edited by Ridvan Celik

As Ridvan says, the CGL will contain the mesh so i absolutely wouldn't start deleting those files.

Do you never intend to install more addon scenery?  I doubt it.     You don't want to fill SSD's over 75% capacity anyway, their performance drops off significantly after that point.

 There is only one sensible solution...  time to buy more storage. 

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