Data consumption is full

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Brief description of the issue:
could someone explain this item. my current data says 1.9 terrabyte which is my ssd 2tb almost.
i have had x-plane 11 with orbx installed but that one have I skipped.
my c drive shows 1.7 tb now after deleting xp11. why there is in msfs 1.9 tb consumption is not clear for me.
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no not yet.

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Are you mixing online streaming data consumption with storage on your computer?

Not related, the numbers reported in streaming data are photogrammetry, weather etc that is not permanently stored locally and are useful if you have a limited data plan.

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I moved this from Bugs & Issues to General Discussion because it was not a bug report but a request for information

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is there a moment that it will cleared or is it going on.

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It might be a problem with windows misreporting your drive space.
Try running a chkdsk /f from an admin command prompt or powershell.

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WinDirStat is a useful and free tool for visualising what is happening to your storage drives.

What size are your rolling cache/manual cache and which drive have you set these to?

(You can completely delete these, change their size and/or change their location - if you change the location it’s worth doing a quick check with WinDirStat to make sure that it’s old location was actually deleted. I found an old instance of rolling cache on a drive after moving it’s location.)

How much of the drive is windows using for swap file etc?

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In any event, it sounds like you’re still going to be running out of space on that drive soon anyway. There’s got to be more software than you are saying. Also, make sure your recycling bin is empty. Finally, there are tools out there for showing what files are taking the most space. When I get back to my work computer, I’ll edit this and let you know what I use (I forget at the moment and I don’t have it on this computer).

You should definitely think about adding another SSD. If you’re working with a desktop, and you have a free PCIe x16 slot, and you’re out of M.2 slots, they make PCIe x16 adapters for SSD’s, and they work great. I’m using one myself, and have my OS and programs on C (in my MB’s M.2 slot, which is actually slower than the PCIe adapter), and MSFS on D in the adapter. Then I use a couple of multi-TB hard drives (6 and 10 to be specific) for file storage of stuff that are either not access speed intensive or just general files (like all the addons I download I keep copies of them), plus backups.

Even with a full install of Steam FSX, MSFS 2020, my DAW and other programs on my 2 1 TB SSD’s, I’m still only using 500GB each on both drives. So you’ve definitely got other programs/data taking a lot of space that you could likely store elsewhere. At greater than 75% full on your drive, you’re very likely slowing down the performance of your system.

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i have checked it with winstat and there is one c-drive 2.0 tb and 14% used is about 300 gb and is mainly msfs2020. furthermore i dont use rolling cache its zero.recycling bin is empty. I did also chk f and is normal.

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As I said above, is the 1.9tb the measurement in the data streaming inside MSFS?

If so it isn’t linked to local storage on your computer.

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I only referring to the suggestion of flyingscool to see if it has to do with a hidden data. it turns out that it wasnot the case. stil is my question how to get rid of the streamings data. limit =0 no rolling cache=0 deleted rolling cache.

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The streaming data is not stored locally on your computer in a persistent state.

The measurement for streaming data is how it impacts on your bandwidth allowance with your internet service provider.

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what does it say to you, looking at my 1.91 tb streaming data according the bandwith of my computer.

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The streaming data indicated on that page only says, that you have downloaded 1.9GB of data while you have been playing.

It is NOT stored on your SSD.

The game downloads photogrammetry and scenery and weather data all the time. And that indication is only related to data being send to you over the internet. But it does not take any space on your SSD or hard drive.

If you have set the limit of that data consumption to 0 it will always show you that it’s full.

If you have set the limit to ie 5GB the game will stop downloading stuff to save your possible data limit from your provider.

That is all it’s there for. It does NOT show you the space the game has taken on your drive.

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I was only commenting based on my understanding that you said your 2TB SSD drive had 1.9TB of data on it (basically full) and you reduced it to 1.7 TB by removing X-plane. Maybe I misunderstood what you were saying and you were talking about some report from MSFS and your drive isn’t nearly full?

I still stand by saying it would be a good idea to get a second SSD. But it’s pretty clear we’re not communicating very well here.

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I had not the knowledge to understand, you didnot misunderstand.
I had installed x-plane11 with orbx scenery and i thought that that was the problem of showing 2terrabyte of streaming. But after skip the xp11 it was still there.
due to your suggestion the measure with winstat I found out that the disk 14% was not related to the streaming dat within the game. I was not aware of that.
you gave a very well good comment. there is nothing to explain furthermore.
due to all comments I understand now what the data means.
i was glad to find out there was no hidden data on my disk what could have been the case.
the last question I have is :if I limit the data to i.e 5gb instead of zero (showing the 1900 gb data)will that harm the gameplay.
or is it only an info

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Why are you limiting the amount of download data at all? Are you limited on the amount of data you can download per month by your internet provider?

This is different from cache size.

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no there is no reason for limiting but in former thread he said that with zero it always stay at max 2tb
and with ie 5gb it will showup to 5 but what my question was will that harm and therefor limit the play in simulator.
what I understand is that is has nothing to do with my harddisk and the data will show the max but
it has no influence. so still i dont know how to reduce the max 2tb to zero.
will it always stay at max?

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@TeenageBloom0 you can’t restore the 2TB because the 2TB is what happened in the past. You downloaded that, but you have only 300GB on your disk. Windows tells the thruth.

This is a LOT of download ! The game data in total is about 150-180 GB max. Did you experience download loops during the installation and updates ? You waited for days to finish the installation ? Or did you fly at 200Ft around the world 16x ? What is your download speed… Just interested…

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He’s talking about something different. The download has never been 2 TB. He’s talking about the data consumption on the Data page in the options.

I think you’re confusing things. Also, don’t listen to everything you read here. Read it and test things yourself based on how you like to fly and make up your own mind. There’s A LOT of REALLY BAD information being shared as truth.

In this case, there is zero reason to limit the data on the data page. If you want decent scenery, that’s the last thing you want to do. There’s people complaining about performance around Photogrammetry, but, everyone’s experience is different. Unless you’re having a problem, there’s no reason to change the default behavior.

Some people don’t care about the scenery and turn off the Bing Data and don’t need shared data from the internet, so, in the interest of performance on a long flight at 30,000 ft, they turn data off. But for general purpose flying, well, it’s up to you on what you want your scenery to look like.

But, I gotta repeat, there’s a ton of people here speaking “truth” who don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. All just noise to me, thank you.

Some people have talked about turning off Rolling Cache as well. That’s been pretty much debunked. Personally, I keep mine at 64GB and haven’t had an issue. With this one, there’s a balance on how to set it. Personally, I do a lot of local flying, so it’s a good idea for me to keep a cache of the local area so it’s not constantly loading. But if you do a lot of cross-country flying (cross the ocean or 4 or more hour flights), or you fly in a new completely different place every time you load MSFS, then 8 GB is likely fine, as there’s not going to be much use to the cache anyway except to give the software a chance to download ahead, assuming it even does that.

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Sorry, but I don’t agree there is in this Topic or Forum.