An Interesting quandry!

falcon409

falcon409

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I reinstalled the P3D program by directing it to the D: drive, nothing more, just clicked on the D: drive and told it to install. Can you guess how that went? lol

If you said, it just dumped everything into the D: drive, you'd be 100% correct. I just assumed that it would make the necessary Prepar3D Folder and then place everything inside, lol. Soooo, can I make a folder, move everything into that folder or must I go back and reinstall again? If I leave it as is I'll have to track down every registry entry and be sure the new folder setup shows. . .grrrr. That already sounds like a pain, lol. SMH.
 
falcon409 said:
I reinstalled the P3D program by directing it to the D: drive, nothing more, just clicked on the D: drive and told it to install. Can you guess how that went? lol

If you said, it just dumped everything into the D: drive, you'd be 100% correct. I just assumed that it would make the necessary Prepar3D Folder and then place everything inside, lol. Soooo, can I make a folder, move everything into that folder or must I go back and reinstall again? If I leave it as is I'll have to track down every registry entry and be sure the new folder setup shows. . .grrrr. That already sounds like a pain, lol. SMH.
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Bummer...I spent about ten days getting squared away. I put V2 on my SSD, but I'm tight on space there already.
I moved FSX to the 2 TB spinning drive. I created a "program files" folder on the spinning drive for FSX, Photoshop and other resource hungry programs. No problem.

I can see two 1TB SSD drives in my future $$$$, but that will be the best setup for installing both sims.
 
Assuming that the D drive was totally empty, you should be able to create a folder, then "move" all folders and files into that new folder. As far as I know there are only two Registry entries that would need to be edited to change the path.
 
n4gix said:
Assuming that the D drive was totally empty, you should be able to create a folder, then "move" all folders and files into that new folder. As far as I know there are only two Registry entries that would need to be edited to change the path.
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Exactly what I did Bill. The drive isn't empty and did have a "program" folder, but I'm trying to eliminate any possibility of problems with the new sim. Made the changes to the few entries as you mention in the registry and all is well. Thanks.
 
ack... Nightmare.

I noted when I clicked 'Option' that it was creating a new folder with its sim name in C: and when you click on the new drive, it only had the new drive as the folder location, so I quickly made one.

I learned this the hard way with having to custom install Addons in my past that I would download. Games as well. Nothing like having an entire game or super huge addon install into a main drive ALL OVER THE PLACE.... All the files and things. FS2004 was riddled with tons of misc file bits from many bad addon installs. :S
 
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