when steam initially installed AFS2 it put it in c drive, however sooner or later with all the extra scenery i am doing and planning to do i think i will run out of space on my c: drive, is there an easy way without having to uninstall AFS2 and reinstall the game to transfer all the contents to my larger drive d: ?
changing drive
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Its pretty easy to do, but gets more complex if you have any orbx scenery.....
So let's get that out of the way first. Do you have any Orbx scenery purchased through FTX central? ? If not, you are in luck, and Steam has options to easily move the game folder to a new drive.
https://www.howtogeek.com/269515/how-to-…downloading-it/
If you have purchased DLC through FTX central, then it's a bit more complicated.
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You can move the aerofly through the Steam application. We've had this questions a couple of times already, you should be able to find it using the search function of this forum (top right corner: magnifying glass). Also Aerofly is probably not the only game where this has been an issue and Steam is a widely used platform so there also should be thousands of manuals about this on the internet already. Just "Google it" or use some other search engine of your choice. That's much easier than us explaining every detail all over again if someone asks the same question.
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no i do not have any orbx scenery installed with give a go
thanks for your responses
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ok my installation of AFS2 is on my F drive the larger drive but the folders are on my C drive the smaller drive, when i click on the F drive it says it is already installed that is correct but there is 4 gig of stuff of AFS2 still on the C drive?
C:\Users\user\Documents\Aerofly FS 2
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how does this work I got 2 AFS2 folders on different drives
F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator
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C:\Users\user\Documents\Aerofly FS 2
the C one is where all my new Brisbane scenery is being placed
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Clayton,
the steam folder is the 'official' game content, the user's folder is for user specific data.
It depends on your windows settings. You can easily move the documents folder with windows tools:
How to change the location of user folders in Windows 10
Rodeo
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If you made custom scenery then that will be installed in your documents folder on c as well. But Aerofly has an option in the main.mcf file for another "extra_user_folder", so you could move all your custom scenery to another drive and then link to it via main configuration file.
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Jan,
Speaking of the "extra_user_folder" - that got removed for today's update - the main.mcf was updated and no backup copy was generated. Could you give us an example edit line for the extra folder - I realize that I might find it on the Wiki.
Thanks
Dave W.
P.S. - you might want to mention that a lot of our user settings got changed to some IPACS default - so we have to reset them (example, Render Scale Factor)
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If you have purchased DLC through FTX central, then it's a bit more complicated
To me, in this case, it should be uninstalled via FTX Central and re-installed into the same computer but in a different drive, again through FTX Central. No big issue.
Cheers, Ed
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Clayton,
the steam folder is the 'official' game content, the user's folder is for user specific data.
It depends on your windows settings. You can easily move the documents folder with windows tools:
How to change the location of user folders in Windows 10
Rodeo
thank you Rodeo, will give this a try.