I have just moved my community folder with a link to a new drive as it was full. I have not moved Addon manager, but now GSX will not work. The couatll engine is still working. Any help anyone ?
That's the wrong way to move the Community folder. I don't know why there are users and tutorials that keep suggesting to do that, when there's an OFFICIAL method that is supported by the sim and it's 100% safe.
First, you should NOT move out just the Community folder and make a link to it. This is an hack, which will of course cause problems to any proper program, like GSX, which assume you used the correct procedure.
MSFS supports having its CONTENT to a different drive, and it's Content it's not just the Community folder, it's the parent folder that contains it and the Official folder too. MSFS assumes ONE single location for all the content, and its path should be updated in the lastline of the UserCfg.OPT file, this is what the simulator uses as standard, and this is of course what GSX uses to know where *both* your Community and Official folders are located.
So, as an example, if you have an external drive (
formatted in NTFS!! ), called E: and you want to move the MSFS Content to an "MSFS" folder in E: in the proper way, you must do as follows:
- Create an empty folder named E:\MSFS
- Move the Community folder there (the real folder, not the link), which will result with it staying here:
E:\MSFS\Community
- Move the Official folder there (the real folder, not the link), which will result with it staying here:
E:\MSFS\Official ( this one will contain either OneStore or Steam folders depending on the version, but if you moved the complete Official folder, you don't have to worry about it )
- Edit the UserCfg.OPT file located here:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\USERCFG.OPT ( MS Store version )
%APPDATA%\Microsoft Flight Simulator\USERCFG.OPT ( Steam version )
- Edit the last line which contains the InstalledPackagesPath text, to be like this:
InstalledPackagesPath "E:\MSFS"
Don't forget the quotes around the path.
Remove any Symbolic links you created, which are useless and will cause issues now. THIS is the proper, official and supported way to move the whole MSFS Content to another drive, which STILL must be formatted as NTFS for GSX ( and any other add-on that uses Symbolic links ) and, not only it's the best way because is the official way, but it's the one that will save you THE MOST SPACE, because the Official folder is about 160GB, so you want to move that one too.