4 hours ago, Cpt_Piett said:

But we don’t need the offline textures when we loose connectivity? I mean when our bandwidth is not up to the task.

If you want to fly with offline textures, then yes, you will need the fs-base files. Personally, I have no interest in flying over retro scenery resembling flight sims from many years ago, so I just deleted them. The message about "lost connectivity" is usually in error -- I and many others are seeing it even when we know our internet connection and bandwidth are fine (happens mostly when new updates are issued and servers are swamped, and is usually a very short-lived problem). On the rare occasions when I am actually unable to fly on-line, I exit MSFS and try later.

 

Edited November 13, 20223 yr by cobalt

1 hour ago, dobee51 said:

Yes, that's what I was told when I couldn't get the Sim to start. I had dipped below 150 GB. 

Interesting, I'll remember that.
Seems like I need to invest in some more disk space again.

2 hours ago, cobalt said:

If you want to fly with offline textures, then yes, you will need the fs-base files. Personally, I have no interest in flying over retro scenery resembling flight sims from many years ago, so I just deleted them.

Yes, I really prefer flying with FS9 retro style textures! 😂 That’s exactly what I meant /s

14 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Yes, I really prefer flying with FS9 retro style textures! 😂 That’s exactly what I meant /s

In that case, why not just stay with FS9? And if so, why are you in this forum? Just curious.

4 minutes ago, cobalt said:

In that case, why not just stay with FS9? And if so, why are you in this forum? Just curious.

I asked you a simple question and you decided to twist my words. I think we should really ask ourselves what you’re doing in this forum? Trolling?

8 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

I asked you a simple question and you decided to twist my words. I think we should really ask ourselves what you’re doing in this forum? Trolling?

Sorry, I didn't mean to twist your words. You said that you prefer FS9 textures, and I thought I was asking the obvious question, given that this is an MSFS forum. As for what I am doing here: I was responding to the earlier query about removing the offline textures -- just trying to help. 

4 hours ago, cobalt said:

You said that you prefer FS9 textures,

Well, you missed the emoji and the /s (for sarcasm) ... in his post.

If you can't get to the content manager because you're stuck at 'Searching for Updates' screens, then you can go to the OFFICIAL folder. There's a subfolder under that, go there. And then a zillion folders full of official content inside that folder. The folder names should give you a clue as to what you can delete. 

Would be best if you just move them to a USB thumdrive or something cheap (in case you want  to put them back manually). That should free space to get the MSFS update to proceed and finish. 

The finished/ upacked new update data will be less than the update packed files (which are deleted by MSFS update procedure automatically at the end of the update). So you now should have some free space to move back some of the content you just moved to the thumbdrive. Anyway, you can at least get into MSFS content manager and add and subtract things.

 

2: A new 1TB nvme drive will cost $100 or  so. A 2TB drive about $200. Use Macrium Reflect (the free version) to clone your old drive while it's still installed into your new  drive which temporarily connects in a USB slot  (using a USB to Nvme interface box which costs about $10. 

After doing that clone, pull out the old drive from the motherboard and take the new  drive from the patch box and stick into the MB. You're done.

But  you could now  erase the old drive and stuff it back into that USB to Nvme interface box. It will now be like a portable 500 GB Nvme drive that connects by USB. So you don't  just have to throw it away.

 

 

4 hours ago, SierraDelta said:

Well, you missed the emoji and the /s (for sarcasm) ... in his post.

I realize that now. But as anyone who has been a regular on this forum well knows, there are some who in the past have argued the superiority of FS9 over MSFS 2020 (though they haven't been heard from lately!). I think this is what threw me off.

Edited November 13, 20223 yr by cobalt

5 hours ago, Fielder said:

2: A new 1TB nvme drive will cost $100 or  so. A 2TB drive about $200. Use Macrium Reflect (the free version) to clone your old drive while it's still installed into your new  drive which temporarily connects in a USB slot  (using a USB to Nvme interface box which costs about $10. 

After doing that clone, pull out the old drive from the motherboard and take the new  drive from the patch box and stick into the MB. You're done.

But  you could now  erase the old drive and stuff it back into that USB to Nvme interface box. It will now be like a portable 500 GB Nvme drive that connects by USB. So you don't  just have to throw it away.

 

 

Is this possible to do with the C drive as well? The one with the Windows installation on. Will Macrium Reflect clone the C? 

Yes, Macrium Reflect will clone the C drive. It will clone the whole disk that C is on if you tell it to do that. Or you can just clone certain drives on a disk it you tell it to do that. The best way to learn is with Youtube videos showing this done (there are about a half dozen Youtube videos showing cloning drives with MR).

On 11/13/2022 at 5:44 AM, cobalt said:

Sorry, I didn't mean to twist your words. You said that you prefer FS9 textures, and I thought I was asking the obvious question, given that this is an MSFS forum. As for what I am doing here: I was responding to the earlier query about removing the offline textures -- just trying to help. 

I was just being sarcastic - of course I don't prefer FS9 textures 🙂 Thanks for trying to help. 

This is a lesson for me -- I need to stop writing posts on the forums late at night! My apologies.

I had to end up getting rid of most of GOTY and 40thAE content because it's just too much space for stuff I don't use.  Flew every thing around a bit.  Then decided what to keep and what to get rid of.  I managed to get my installation down to 515GB.  Every addon is like 2-3 GB now.  There are some airports I won't buy because the install size is too massive.   I wish I could go back to 2020 and get 1 2TB HD and not 2 1TB hds.  

If you don't use helicopters you can free up a massive 5-8GB getting rid of all the new helipad sceneries.  Some of the new airplanes are 1GB-2GB a piece.  It said it downloaded 42GB but I think the expanded size must be more like 70-80GB.  

 

On 11/12/2022 at 6:29 AM, dobee51 said:

Don't forget that you also need to have at least 150 GB on your main drive to run the sim.

definitely not true. I have recently had a mere 5 GB on my FSFS SSD left, and only some 20 GB on my Windows drive. while not ideal, it still worked.