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Moving FSX and all addons

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Pepere

Charter Member 2015
Is there a program I can use to move FSX and all addons from one SSD to another SSD with out copying the entire disk?

Thanks

David
 
Well, um, yeah, you have to copy it, but maybe you mean registry and all that, which can be a problem for sure
since Windows won't know where you moved it all unless you export edit and re-import the registries, however..you can try this


With Vista or 7 by using the mklink /j command, to make a junction link

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

eg: I have UTX folder on F:\flightsim Stuff\UTX,
FSX is on D:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X.
But FSX thinks UTX it is on D: drive

to do this I moved (not copied) UTX to D: and the folder of my choice

Opened a cmd prompt and cd in to the fsx root folder
(you'll need to know a bit of DOS)

created the juction to the new UTX path per example

mklink /j UTX "F:\flightsim Stuff\UTX"

A new folder(junction) will appear, The files are physically in the F:\flightsim Stuff\UTX folder
but are listed in the pseudo UTX junction in the root FSX folder

It works, if it does not then ya done summit wrong...
Hope ya didn't get lost.

I moved F:\@FSX\UTX to D:\UTX so...

cd F:\
cd @FSX
cd UTX
mklink /j UTX D:\UTX


::::::response
Junction created for UTX <<===>> D:\UTX
 
Well i tried "junction link magic" and it seems to have worked. All in all it was fairly simple to do.

I have another question. Now when I install new addons do I still use the "C" drive or can I use the "K" drive location? If I look on "C" drive it looks like it is still there but with "junction" it is really on "K" drive.

David
 
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