My C drive is my os drive only.
I had 3tb of ssd space on other drives so would like to be able to choose where the Community folder is located so I can start enjoying the mods that are being done.
I don’t want to faff around with symbolic links to accomplish this either, I would just like it to be in settings in the game.
Not possible, the Community folder is always directly below the MSFS folder.
Only way (without using symbolic links) is to reinstall MSFS, but this time choose a different drive. I’ve a similiar approach, C: is only OS and real progs, D: for Desktop, Documents, Downloads, E: for Games like MSFS
My msfs is installed on my W drive. That’s where I installed it originally.
My community folder is located here
C:\Users\xxxxxx\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Community
Its already at 12gb and ive only added a few liveries :-\
Hm that should be a shortcut to the Community folder on your W drive?
Directory hard links (junctions) are your friend:
Thanks. Yes you are right. I just tested by copying in a big file to the community folder and checked free space on C and W. W was the one to drop so that’s ok then.
Time to start downloading loads of content ! 
This is what i want. A way to configure where the bloody Community Folder is going to be. I don’t want to read 38 guides on the net telling me 38 different locations where it could be. I don’t want to search for it or read guides - ever again when i come back to MSFS because something changed it and it defaulted to C:\users<username>\Appdata<yadayada> or some hole in the ground somewhere outside of Kansas where badgers hide. And this to a drive with 14 GB free when i installed the simulator on a 4 TB SSD Specifically purchased for MSFS2020(!)
All i want - really - is this. Not world peace. Not a private island or a magic wand that shoots chocolate money - i just want this! It’s not that hard to implement, it’s a simple textbox, a folder selector and a parameter that is set. Should take like 5 minutes to code in Visual Studio.
It seems there are a lot of hoops to jump through if I need to move my community folder to another drive. After flying for 2 years or so, I am getting big (>152GB). With little more than the sim and the OS on my boot M.2, I am down to 233GB free. Not an issue yet, but it’s on the horizon. Can you put an option to relocate the community folder to another drive within the sim that doesn’t require doing a manual redirect or shortcut/whatever? It could be as simple as pointing to the new location from within my profile, or a registry entry perhaps? Thank! Great job on this sim - really:)
You can use NTFS junction points to put the Community folder wherever you like. This is effectively what the MSFS addon linker tools do.
What you would do is move the Community folder to some other location, and then run a command to create a junction point in the root of your MSFS folder, called “Community” that points to the moved location.
For example, my copy is installed in “D:\Flight Simulator”.
I would move the “Community” folder from there to my E drive, for example.
I would then open a command prompt, and run the following command:
mklink /j "D:\Flight Simulator\Community" E:\Community
If you now look in that folder you will see a new “Community” folder with the little shortcut arrow on its icon. If you open that folder you will be transparently viewing the folder on E, not D.
The sim won’t know the difference.
The community folder needs to be in the packages folder not in the root folder 
My community folder isn’t. I installed my sim to a custom folder. The full path to mine is “D:\Flight Simulator\Community”. No packages folder.
If you installed the sim to the default location on your C drive, then just replace the paths I include above with the correct path for “your” Community folder.
Just dug out a default path for MS Store:
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe
So if you see a “Community”, and “Official” folder in that location, that is where you would create your junction point.
I could be wrong but if you move the packages folders manually when you next start MSFS it will tell you that you need a huge update but at the bottom you will see a box showing the default path. Simply click on this and point it to the new location of your packages. MSFS will immediately recognise that you don’t need thes updates.
If you don’t get this prompt stop the download immediately, edit UserCfg.opt with the correct path and restart MSFS.
If I remember right, doesn’t that file have a pointer to the whole sim, and not just “Community” or “Official”?
In this instance they don’t want to move all the packages, just the “Community” folder. I don’t think that is an option in the usercfg.opt file.
I’m not at home to check though.
How to locate the “Community folder” in Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Microsoft Store/Xbox App: C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Community.
- Steam: C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\Community.
So the command to run would be (assuming you moved the Community folder to E:):
mklink /j C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Community\" E:\Community
That’s just for (re)installing the sim, for updates it definitely asks for the package location. My only uncertainty is if you actually get asked in this situation which if not is why you must stop the download and correct the path manually.
I can assure you that that’s correct I basically moved my folder this way to C:\MSFS
I did this too in order to avoid the ‘too long file path’ issues with certain add ons. i.e. PMDG DC6 liveries
You just need to change the default path to your new custom path before clicking ‘UPDATE’ 
I want all those things you mentioned! Although chocolate money on a private island would be rather useless. Diabetes sucks.