Question for PC users: Is there a way to tell the total size of my MS2020 install on my computer, minus the Community folder? I have the GOTY installed with all updates…Thanks a lot!
I would just find the size of your MSFS install folder (for the MS store version, C:\Users*YourUsername*\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe), find the size of your Community folder, and subtract.
I’m curious what you get, because I’m wondering if mine is higher than normal. I have GOTY installed and all World Updates, but no Aviators Club liveries. That gives me a clean install size of 179 GB, or 171 if you take out the 8 GB for the rolling cache. Yet, the MS Store says the size is 123 GB and Steam says 150 GB.
195 - 15.5 (Community) = 179.5 GB
these dont include the updates, so you are about right there around 170
If you uninstalled all scenery updates and default aircraft the core sim is probably less than 50 GB
I am a newbie so apologies in advance if I have got the wrong end of the stick, my laptop hard drive 512 (441) GB is showing 364 GB used and only 77.0 free, with Temp files 34.7 GB.
I am somewhat confused why so much of my SSD is taken up when it’s a new laptop and I only have MSF and F1 games downloaded. Can anyone enlighten me - thanks.
because 512 gb is really small by modern standards, just get an external extra one.
Click on the drive’s properties and perform a cleanup of the drive including system clean up as their are probably old and altogether useless windows installs on there. I also recommend a program called FileFusion that will get rid of any duplicate files but can also be reverted if this causes a problem.
Better still, get an NVMe cage
Thanks, appreciate your advice but to spend more dosh after £850 on a gaming laptop is a bit disappointing.
512 GB might not be a massive SSD by today’s standards - granted. However, I’m still at a loss to understand how nearly all my hard drive memory can be taken up by one game!
The world is a big place, however much of the data is scenery you may never visit and aircraft that you’ll never fly in, just go to content manager and uninstall what you don’t use … and as I said previously do a system clean up, it costs nothing and can bring a lot. The temp file is probably a back up but I prefer to do mine manually and anyway if I wanted a system image I certainly wouldn’t put it on the same drive as my system … use a usb stick if anything but if you have access to another PC you can always download an iso from MS.
Try to keep 11% free for harddrive provisioning plus whatever Windows decides for virtual memory