Can you change the location of the streamed packages? I don’t want all of this in the user area of my C drive. You can move the regular packages (with usercfg.opt) and install FS on a drive of your choosing but don’t see a way to put all this streaming activity on a different drive. Please tell me I am just missing something.
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Makes me nuts when applications just decide themselves where they store large amounts of data on your machine. I get small files for settings, configuration, etc. fit nicely in the user directory of the C drive. But this streamed package directory could get very large and PC users or those with multiple drives hould have some control over where it is stored. Arguably should/could share the directory with rolling cache file.
First, install MSFS where you want it.
Second, in game, open My Library and in the top right is a small cog. Click on it and set a new folder for the content (i’m not at my PC, can’t recall whats the option called)
I wish that worked… Does not move streamed packages directory.
Did for me, but I’ll check in a bit when I get home
You can easily move the application install directory. And, you can move the rolling cache and Official/Community out of the appdata directory but the streamed packages directory stays camped out. Would not care but it is large and creates lots of write activity on the C drive.
Oh yeah, you are right. However, the StreamedPackaged folder you see in AppData is only a SymLink I think. The true location is in the same drive as the core MSFS instalation, in my case in
"F:\WpSystem\S-1-5-21-1823139924-2401492941-1410354440-1001\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Limitless_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState" my MSFS install location is on the F: drive
Right click on the StreamedPackages folder in AppData > Properties > Link Properties or something like that, and there you see the true location along with the Open target button. So no real space is used in the AppData.
Now that is really interesting! In my case it is not a link. I wonder if they only link it to another drive IF you install FS on another drive? Thanks and I will play around it with it.
That is possible. Also don’t know if it’s the same for both MS Store and Steam versions. Steam might work differently.
I am using MS Store and will play with it. Yet another bit of weirdness with this sim.
Mark
Honestly it’s actually clever solution, since all 3rd party addons that might want to use anything in the AppData folder, i.e. exe.xml or SimConnect.xml, simply need to point to the %APPDATA% and don’t have to figure out, where the user installed the sim and it’s accompanying data.
Agreed, it is a clever solution. Just not one I have seen with FS before.
Do you install the sim in the XboxGames directory when you move it to another drive?
Yes, I did that. Don’t know if it lets you install outside XBoxGame directory, never tried it.
Steam lets you designate game Libraries (not referring to the sim My Library) per physical/logical partition. So my full install is in a drive other than than C, which is optimal for system performance and disk management.
It can be harder at times for MS-Store licensees, as we know from FS’20.
I have Steam version and my streamedpackages folder is in Appdata/roaming, and it is on C:
I don’t use Steam but I actually figured this out for the Window Store version. You can either move the entire FS2024 to another drive using the Xbox App. Or, you can simply create a symbolic link for the StreamedPackages folder to another drive which is what I did. Neither choice is terribly tidy.