The “reserved space” moved to the external storage as well so everything will go to the external storage. Assumption is that only the rolling cache stays on the internal SSD. This is just FS2020. I don’t have any other games installed.
You can easily revert to the initial installation scheme.
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Good
Many thanks
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After input from @MimikriX I spent time moving my MSFS install from my Storage Expansion Card back to Internal Storage and then, back again, to the Storage Expansion Card.
Having done so, my Reserved Space is now on the Storage Expansion Card and I’m no longer even able to get the Reserved Space to not be located on a separate storage location as originally described in this post.
I’m perplexed, however I’m also pleased as the above is how it ought to work and, as such, we are able to utilize MSFS on a Storage Expansion Card as desired.
I’ve edited my OP to now reflect the above findings.
Since I’ve already maxed out my Series X internal storage with MSFS only, the warning about an expansion card not storing MSFS / no way to expand MSFS beyond 1Tb was a pretty intimidating warning.
So got hold of a temporary setup and started experimenting.
Setup:
Xbox Series X
2Tb expansion card
Xbox Series S
Summary of the behavior on these two systems:
An Xbox only create 1 MSFS reserved space. It does not duplicate or copy it, even if the user tries to.
MSFS reserved space created with one xbox can not be found/seen on another xbox.
The other xbox can/will create a new reserved space, which in turn is invisible to the first xbox.
The reserved space can be either on the internal drive or on an expansion card.
I have not yet been able to separate the sim from the reserved space on two different drives, like some of you others in this thread have managed.
Xbox Copy function: copies only the sim, no reserved space.
There can be a copy of the sim on both the internal drive and a separate one on the expansion card.
(Using other games i tried updating one copy and keeping the second copy with the older version. This was possible. The two copies can be different, i.e. different versions)
Xbox Move function: moves the sim AND the reserved space.
The reserved space can be AT LEAST 670Gb (and functional in AAU1). At this point the Series X internal drive ran out of space, and I didnt have access to an expansion card at that time. And the new SU12-check-for-updates bug prevented me from accessing the content manager to install more addons once the expansion card was available.
If time allows, ill try to hit 250Gb of reserved space to verify the suggested trigger point of the SU12-check-for-updates bug.
Totally unrelated fact:
Max transfer speed on Series S : 2Gb/s
Max transfer speed on Series X and/or expansion card : 6Gb/s
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i’m just over 250GB of reserved space now (253GB) and i didn’t encounter the bug . Knock on woods.
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This is good. Sometime this year a definitely need to expand my storage…
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Would clearing the reserved space delete your flights in your log book and would it delete the hours you have played
No. Both of those are stored in your save file, which is synced to the cloud.
Okay thank you
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Also would clearing your reserved space delete the saved controller profiles
No, those are also a part of your save file and synced to the cloud.
What is lost, other than all downloaded Marketplace content, is:
• Custom camera settings
• Rolling cache
• Some minor settings like traffic sliders
I feel like there is one other thing, but I cannot recall what it is. However, it isn’t a big loss or something that cannot easily be re-done.
Thank you.
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One more question is the data usage included in the reserved space
While I cannot directly answer that, due to my not needing that feature and I run unlimited settings, my suspicion is it would be a setting local to the Xbox. Therefore, that data would be stored in the Reserved Space.
Again, however, as I don’t use that, I cannot answer for certain.
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I’ve read this entire thread and, while close to addressing my issue, I believe mine may be separate. I currently have the base game plus about 150GB of marketplace content (in the Reserved Space files) downloaded and installed onto my Seagate Storage Expansion Card. I did all of these initial downloads and installations on my Xbox Series X and it works great there.
However, when I remove the card and plug into my Xbox Series S, I only see the base game available to me. All marketplace content that I “own” shows as “Not Installed” in the content manager. Even looking at the Reserved Space files through the Xbox storage management menus show the files (which are about 150GB when viewed on my Series X) are only 16GB when viewed on Series S.
I’ve submitted this as an official issue with Microsoft, though it’s taking some time back and forth to get them to fully understand what I’m describing. I would start a new topic here, however I’m very new to the site, so I’m unable to start new topics yet.
Any advice here would be much appreciated - thanks in advance!
This was what I had observed, as well. It would seem like the Reserved Space is non-transferrable between systems. When I’d seen this, I had initially believed the issue was that Reserved Space was only installed on the internal storage volume.
It appears, instead, it is non-accessible from a different Xbox system.
Interesting and disappointing if working as designed. This means I would need to download all my Marketplace Content twice onto the same storage device, one to be accessed by the Series X and the other to be accessed by the Series S - a significant waste of time and resources.
My back-and-forth with MS has moved on to the “trying to replicate in QA” phase, so who knows - this could get fixed someday.
Thanks for verifying that it (probably) isn’t user error!
I think this is probably true. Funny, I was trying to test between X and S, too. I never did bother to confine once I saw the S wasn’t recognizing the content on the expansion card.
I stopped there. I’d be curious to see how it actually plays out should you (or anyone else) give it a go.
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IF this topic is still open, I’d love to know the exact steps to move all my game content to the external card (expansion card?} Someone will have to list it out 1-whatever so I can get the complete picture. I use an Xbox s and Have run out of space to download anything else. I like to download planes and some scenery, but now there is no more space on the Internal memory. I"m wondering can I just copy and move everything from the internal to the expansion card? SOOO confused but need help with this. BTW, I’ve read about all the previous posts and have an idea of what to do, but not exactly. Your help is appreciated
From your Xbox dashboard (aka Home Screen) use the Xbox controller to highlight MSFS.
Then: Press Menu > highlight Manage game and add-ons > press A > press A again > highlight Move or copy > press A > highlight Select All > press A > highlight Move Selected > press A