I built a new PC and my old PC had the Steam install and the community folder on two separate drives. On the new PC I installed the Steam version of MSFS like before but I cannot remember how or what I did so that MSFS recognized the different location for the community folder. I believe what I did was very simple and I don’t believe I set up a share or symbolic shares/shortcut/ links.
My SSD does have plenty of room so should I just set my addons in the current location? Do I gain anything by having it on a separate drive? Is there any harm in adding and then deleting the addons? Say I going to fly in Germany so I copy all my addons that deal with Germany , from my NAS, into the community folder and then delete them. Next time I just copy them back from the NAS.
How to move MSFS from old hard drive to new SSD - MS Store ver.
1 create new folder named MSFS 2020 on for e.g. D drive // D=new SSD
2 copy Official and Community folders from C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages
and paste to D:\MSFS 2020
3 after that go to C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache
4 in notepad open file named userconfig.opt
scroll down to the bottom and edit last line
e.g. InstalledPackagesPath "C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages"
After that go to
C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Official
delete all files and folders
Go to
C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Community
Delete all files and folders
How to move MSFS from old hard drive to new SSD - msfs Steam ver.
1 create new folder named MSFS 2020 on for e.g. D drive // D=new SSD
2 copy root_game_folder Packages from C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator
to D:\MSFS 2020
3 after that go to C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator
4 in notepad open file named userconfig.opt
scroll down to the bottom and edit last line
e.g. InstalledPackagesPath "C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages"
Oddly my scenario was almost the opposite - Steam install on G: drive and the MSFS settings etc in my Users folder on C:. Using symbolic links/junctions I now have both on my G: drive. I think the command was "Mklink /J ". I cannot comment on the pros/cons of junctions/symbolic links only that junctions have always worked for me.
Hi TenPatrol,
When trying to move my Packages folder I see that my MSFS installation’s Packages folder is under
“C:\Users\Alf\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages” and not under “…\Roaming…”.
The “LocalCache” folder has an arrow in its icon and the 140ish GB don’t count against the free space on my SSD’s C: drive, where Windows is installed and where I thought the MSFS was installed.
Weird.
I initially had problems installing. The solution was that I had to set a drive, which would only shortly show in the Disk Manager, to “Online”, and only then the installation would proceed.
Am I doing something wrong. How do I get the MSFS installed onto my SSD.
Would you have any idea what is going on here?
Thanks, Alf
1 external SSD 2 TB to boot MacOS (NVME M.2 hooked to Thunderbolt 3)
1 external SSD 1TB to boot Windows (NVME M.2 hooked to USB3.1)
1 internal SSD 128 GB as part of a 2 TB Fusion drive, which has problems (long boot times, very slow read/write times).
On the internal drive there is a Bootcamp partition D:, which to my suprise houses the WpSystem folder under D:. This seems to have been created 4 days ago without my knowledge.
I do not intend to use the Bootcamp partition, as it is on the internal drive having problems.
I recently cloned MacOS to the external SSD and use MacOS from there. The Bootcamp partition cannot be cloned, so I abandoned it.
Thanks so much. That worked.
Unfortunately, there is one issue left, and that is, that when I start the program I must set a new drive popping up in Disk Manager to “Online”. If I don’t do that while that drive is showing (only for around 10-15 seconds), the program won’t start.
That drive is named Disk 5 or Disk 6 and shows differing sizes.
running MSFS as administrator does not change the behavior (I am admin user), I need to set the drive showing up to Online manually.
executing diskpart and san results in
