Apparently it can be done from in the sim by clicking Marketplace, then going into My Library and clicking the tiny gear upper right (not the main settings larger gear icon) and changing your Community Folder location.
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Oh sick! Thanks for replying, I shall do that in a sec
The game files all seem to be defaulted to C: drive. I made the mistake of not setting a custom install path on the first installation (I thought that since my steam install location was on D: it wouldnāt matter). I tried uninstalling it twice but both times it defaults to C:.
Does anyone know if there is a way of getting the āin game promptā to show again?
In theory this should also mean the community folder should move with the game files. I wouldnāt be so bothered if it was something similar to what msfs 2020 is taking up something along the lines of 2GB, but unfortunately, I cannot afford to loose 17GB of space on my C; drive.
Huh that I would think would have to be done through steam, no? iirc the sim canāt move itself around, and I donāt recall any in-game pop-ups indicating that
Yea when I first loaded the game, while signing into Microsoft account, there was a prompt asking which type of install I wanted to do. Maybe not those words but it was that kind of principle.
Now after I have uninstalled the game and go to launch it after re-installing it through steam I donāt get any sort of prompt even asking me to sign into my Microsoft account so there must be more files hidden away that donāt get deleted.
I wonder if thatās just the steam game save
Thanks, I didnāt know it was there.
Strange place to put a gear.
I changed the Community folder address in my to my K: drive.
It accepted it. Quit FS2024.
Loaded FS2024 and the original address on C: was put back in.
So, I donāt think this is a vehicle to move the Community folder.
Best to manually move it but move the contents in the
Packages folder and then update the UserCfg.opt fileās last line.
UserCfg.opt:
InstalledPackagesPath āC:\Users\myid\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Limitless_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packagesā
Above Packages folder contents:
\Community
\Official2020 <ā this folder is empty
\Official2024 <ā this folder is empty
Is it possible to move the entire folder Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, from the C partition, to another partition?
I have the Steam version. In Steam folder, there is a folder, 11 GB (Limitless, or something like that)
I wish I could move the one from C partition, to the partition where Steam is installed.
Thank you
I am MS Store based.
I had FS2024 installed on my K: drive, K:\FS2024.
The FS2024 folder has the folder named Limitless.
It is 11.9 GB same as yours.
This is the FS2024 app.
The WpSystem folder is FS2024 folders and files.
It is 60.7 GB.
The WpSystem folder has other folders but also has the Packages folder.
The Packages folder is 42.7 GB.
It has my Community folder in it which is 42.7 GB.
So for the K: drive
89 GB = Total space used
12 GB = Limitless folder
61 GB = WpSystem folder (43 GB of it is my Community folder)
The point is that you need to get more than the 11 GB off of your C:
drive if space is tight.
I would save your Community folder.
Go to the FS app or Xbox app and uninstall FS2024.
Install it again and tell it what drive\folder to install FS2024 to.
After it installs an empty Community folder, replace it with yours.
But, I am MS Store.
I donāt have any knowledge of Steam.
And finally when you add it, this does just nothing. iāve some plane and some airport in but nothing is usable to MSFS 2024
Try below commands from a admin command promt to make it easier to access the community folder. I have installed MSFS2024 on my H drive but for unknown reasons, Microsoft has buried the folders using a very strange naming convention not meant to be used by humans.
h:
cd \
md MSFS2024
mklink /J h:\MSFS2024\Community H:\WpSystem\S-1-5-21-3453440904-489085457-2743420210-1001\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Limitless_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Community
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I was able to move the Community folder to a different drive
But Iād like to move the whole Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 to a different drive.
Possible?
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Okay, I have just moved my Community Folder successfully. This is what I did:
- Locate MSFS24 Community Folder - mine was in C:\Users\ister\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Limitless_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Community
- Go back to C:\Users\ister\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Limitless_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache and you will see a file called UserCfg.opt
Make a copy of that file and name it UserCfg.bak or similar just in case you mess up and you want to switch back to the original file. - Open the file for editing in Notepad or WordPad, and scroll to the last line
Installed Packages Path and edit the line to show the location you want to use. (In my case InstalledPackagesPath āD:\MSFS24\Packagesā ) - My set up would not allow me to copy the folders so I had to create folders myself:
(a) New Folder āMSFS24ā
(b) MSFS24\Packages
(c) MSFS24\Packages\Community
(d) MSFS24\Packages\Official2020
(e) MSFS24\Packages\Official2020\OneStore
(f) MSFS24\Packages\Official2024
(g) MSFS24\Packages\Official2024\OneStore
Now, I copied the VirtualCol Beechcraft 99 and the liveries from my old FS2020 Community folder into my new MSFS24\Packages\Community folder and they all show up okay in MSFS2024. Whether or not one of the most hated aircraft of MSFS2020 flies alright or not, I donāt know yet but thatās the nuts and bolts of porting things over.
Hope it helps you.
Ian
So yesterday afternoon/evening I ran into an odd/interesting/borderline frustrating sim issue that affects the Community folder situation.
Twice yesterday I loaded into the sim, only to have it crash at about 27% through loading. In each case, after that crash, trying to load the sim again gives an error on the splash screen (āAn error has occurredā or similar) with a cryptic error code hyperlink that merely leads to a typically generic and unhelpful MS Help page. The only way around this was to reboot my PC, after which the sim loaded in normally.
However, at that point, the custom Community folder location I had set was reset to the default location and thus none of my actual Community content was available. I was able in both cases to set my custom location again, quit the sim and reload. But an hour or two later after quitting the sim and reloading, I encountered the same cycle of error, reboot, reset Community folder location. Again, I was able to correct the location, quit and restart.
So Iām not really sure what category this falls into, nor exactly what triggered the sim failing to load at 27% and reset things. I have been using the updated MSFS Addons Linker 2024 version and testing out linking various items into my Community folder. I THINK that experimentation with linking things into the folder may be triggering the 27% load crash, but have not yet verified that.
YESSS i had moved my mods folder last night it was working then this morning its moved back to my C drive and canāt change it back to the file i had says this
Hi,
I changed the Community folder because I installed MS2024 on a drive different of C.
Everything was ok, but I had a Ctd and after that the Community folder was back to C!
Soā¦ I left it there!
Regards
Right, thatās exactly what happened to me. I canāt believe that is intended behavior, or else whatās the point of being able to set your own via the Library Settings pane? I am tempted to make a post in the Bugs forum if I can figure out what category it belongs to.
(ASIDE - another fun fact: after a CTD, the sim resets graphics settings to defaults, but it seems to retain custom controls profiles. Not sure why some stuff is saved and some stuff is not).
Thanks MS team but I canāt put anything into Store Community Folder (encryption), so what is even its use? Iām really starting to wonder how our freeware and 3rd party mods are going to be stored locally.
Has anyone tried to do a symbolic link using the āmklinkā command? I might try it tonight when I get home, but maybe someone can test if that works.