REDUCE Rolling Cache size (2024)

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Yeah so, i made it way too big and it took over most of my NVME drive.
There is no way to shrink it in game settings, nor is there an option to delete it to start over or turn it off!

Any help appreciated.

{021F8B73-6083-4EB3-8865-15337E7CCC12}
{021F8B73-6083-4EB3-8865-15337E7CCC12}1364×624 42.5 KB

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Can you not just shut the sim down and delete the file in explorer?

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When i restart sim it is back at 500gb. It creates what is in the settings before i get a chance to go to settings.

Edit: I managed to use a higher level admin to delete it in command prompt whilst the sim is running and broke the game, but it worked eventually.

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Mate, this has got to be another bug!
Why don’t you report it in the bug category?

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I have the same issue. It always goes back to 0 and wont comply with an assigned folder. How do you manage to l solve it

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I have the same issue. It always goes back to 0 and wont comply with an assigned folder. How do you manage to l solve it

Did you by any chance move your MSFS folder from app_data to another location and create junction between the two folders?

Edit: Anyway, my solution was to add my Xbox live account (email address) to my folder and give full access. I think the permission might have been taken off during patch.

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This is just such an inexcusably stupid move by Asobo. So dependent on the architecture but forgot a clear/purge function

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If I remember correctly MSFS 2020 had same issue at launch.

I set mine to 512GB in hopes that the areas I fly will get cached… not sure how aggressively it stores this info in that cache, but I figured with close to 3TB of 2020 data, 512GB is fine.

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If it helps, I was able to reduce it to the original 16.
I simply chose a new location for my cache (in my case I chose another drive): this will copy the existing Rollingcache file into the new location, and will NOT delete the original one. Then put 16 as cache size, where you will get the ‘genius’ alert that you cannot lower cache size.
Quit the game, delete the Rollingcache.ccc file from both locations (original and new one where the sim simply made a copy), and relaunch the sim: it will now be 16gb and a new Rollingcache.ccc file