XBox App: select D-drive to install MSFS. That works, GREAT! However…
Upon launching MSFS 2024 for the first time, it will go ahead and create C:\Users<user>\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Limitless_8wekyb3d8bbwe (Side note: Who on earth decided on that location!? Did they try and make it hard to find?)
Any addons installed will default to that location, for example: when I install the FSLabs A321, thát is the location it is going to, with no possibility to change it. When I access the store settings within MSFS 2024, and I try to change the addon location to D, it will simply refuse (no feedback is given).
I am dumbfounded how such a basic thing - having the Community folder on my D-drive instead of C - will simply not work.
As an IT’er, I am solving technical issues all day, but in my free time, I want my games to install where I want them and simply WORK. Can’t be that hard now, can it? Seems it can.
PS: I removed MSFS, manually removed any remaining folders, reinstalled… same issue.
I got it working. As far as I can tell I did nothing new, just repeated the whole process:
- Uninstall MSFS 2024 and anything related
- Reinstall MSFS via the XBox App to D:\Games
- Upon launch MSFS will still default to C: for the Community folder and stuff (why o why?!)
- Exit and restart MSFS
- Go to MSFS Store - My Library
- Change My Library location to D:\Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
- And lo and behold, MSFS suddenly accepts the location: a message pops up that the change will take effect after restarting MSFS
- Restart MSFS and indeed, now all Community related stuff is created in D:\Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
- Quit MSFS and install FSLabs addon: now it points to the Community folder on the D-drive; whew!
Anyway, this is pure waste. I should not have to jump through silly hoops like that. User points to drive X? Install ALL on drive X. Life really can be that simple.
Now, I have no problem when pure system related files are still installed on C. I do have a problem with DATA still being installed there. The whole point of this C/D drive divide is to keep the system and data separate, so when disaster strikes one reinstalls the system on C, while the data safely lives on on D.
I apologize for making this a rant, but as an IT professional I cannot stand this level of incompetence that wastes mine and everyone else’s free time, for what should be a pretty basic install activity.