Can I move my Official Folder to another SSD

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I have enough space right now I just need to move some of it around. I need to wait and see what MSFS 2024 is before I buy another SSD. If it is completely separate from the 2020 version I may get another SSD.

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Your installation is the same as mine and everyone else on MS Store.
Everything you describe is okay.

The E:\WindowsApps folder is fine.
I have it also but I can’t see what is in mine and don’t care.
It is protected by Microsoft.

All you need is to move the Official folder to D:\Official
and create the link (mklink) for it.

The Symbolic Link is for Windows to know where the Official folder is.

Just do it 


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OK, I can now declare this topic is solved. The problem was, as I expected, I had not deleted the Official folder in the E:\MSFS Stuff\ folder after copying and pasting it to the D:\ drive. So I did that, the symbolic link was created and MSFS seems to be working as it should. Thanks for all the help.

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Good job.
You stuck with it and got it solved.

Enjoy your flying


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TDog, Can you pls explain what you did to dolve the problem eith using mklink.
Thanks,
Peter Hougardy

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You have to delete the official folder and all the files from the E: drive after you set up your link. Then your link will create a symbolic link from your new location to the E: drive. After that happens you can go there and it will appear to be an Official Folder there with all your Official files in it.

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Many thanks / let me try again - I will let you know if it worked!
Peter

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I tried but have syntax error.

I have:

  • on my e drive msfs2020\official\onestore\ and also community folder
  • I want a virtual link with my d drive
  • My d drive has no folders related to msfs
  • My e drive has the loaded community and official files
  • After succesful link I have to remove the official folder from e, as that folder should now be in d (U cannot do that because of mklink error syntax message)

I tried the following:
After the prompt: mklink /d d:\ e:\msfs2020\official

This does unfortunately not work: syntax error message

Do I need d: only and/or do I need e:\msfs2020\official\onestore. ?

Thanks for helping out!
Peter

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Mklink will create a Symbolic Link for a folder, /d parameter.
ex: mklink /d \MyFolder \Users\User1\Documents

You could do this and not need mklink.

  1. Create a new folder on D:, D:\msfs2020.
  2. Copy your E:\msfs2020 to D:\msfs2020.
  3. Update the last line of your UserCfg.opt file to:
    InstalledPackagesPath “D:\msfs2020”
  4. Delete E:\msfs2020
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Hi Ron,

Thanks for your advice - I only want to move the folder Official from my e drive (msfs2020\official\onestore) to the d drive. I can then free up e drive space, ad this drive is full and I cannot add anymore msfs2020 updates/addons.

With mklink /d that seems to be simple, but how exactly is the mklink line after the prompt for my situation?

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I think this will do it.
I don’t use mklink.
And don’t understand why you don’t want to move both the Community and Official folders.

Your addons will go in your Commumity folder.

copy e:\msfs2020\official to d:\msfs2020\official
mklink /d e:\msfs2020\official d:\msfs2020\official

Or, if you just want Official:

Copy e:\msfs2020\official to D:\official
mklink /d e:\msfs2020\official d:\official

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Hi Ron,

When I try that I see “cannot create a file when that file already exists” error.
I did not have d:\official in drive d.
Peter

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Don’t follow.

If you are using File Explorer with copy & paste. you will need
to create the folder, D:\Official first.
If D:\Official is already there, delete it.

Rely with the command you are having trouble with.
Or a screenshot.

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Hi Ron,

I did solve the problem!
Thanks for your help.
Peter

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