Ron Attwood Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Just tried to install The Netherlands and FTX Central tells me I don't have enough disc space. 1TB SSD with 750GB used and 180GB free. FTXC says it requires 76,49 GB free and I currently have 32.07 GB What's with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dow Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 In the settings page of the latest FTX Central 3.3.0.2 there's a Temp Download Location. You can set a path to a drive with enough space,. Sounds like it's your C:\ Drive that doesn't have enough space, it's the default setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Attwood Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 And if I only have one drive? i.e. C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopperle Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 You have only one harddrive on your machine with only 32GB left??? I guess then you will be in trouble anyway. For now you might try to attach an external drive and and put the temp download folder there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Attwood Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 Doesn't anyone read? Just to be clear. Please note how many GBs are free. How many hard drives should I have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Hello Ron, I am experiencing a similar error. I have asked what is the matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Attwood Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 The cavalry has arrived. Did you arrive because you saw the steam coming out of my ears? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Bricco Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Same problem for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hakkie Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Same here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dow Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Possibly because Windows reserves space on drives for Paging files, Virtual memory etc? I think that it is becoming necessary for flightsimmers to invest in extra drive space to get around problems like this that have no rational explanation. I'll bet it's a Windows thing and outside the control of the Orbx devs, but, you never know, they might find a solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traveller Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 3 minutes ago, John Dow said: Possibly because Windows reserves space on drives for Paging files, Virtual memory etc? I think that it is becoming necessary for flightsimmers to invest in extra drive space to get around problems like this that have no rational explanation. I'll bet it's a Windows thing and outside the control of the Orbx devs, but, you never know, they might find a solution. @John Dow You nailed it John. For practical purposes, even if the Temp folder is on a drive other than C :, however, the C: drive must reserve space at least equivalent to twice the size of the downloaded file. If the Temp folder is on the C: drive, in practical terms, the size of the buffer should be at least equivalent to 3 times the size of the downloaded file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 For me, the error message is clearly stating that there is not enough space on the simulator drive. The reason for this is that FTX Central seems to have read that there is a minus figure. In any event, it is not the system drive and is therefore not troubled by system files, visible or otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traveller Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 5 minutes ago, Nick Cooper said: For me, the error message is clearly stating that there is not enough space on the simulator drive. The reason for this is that FTX Central seems to have read that there is a minus figure. In any event, it is not the system drive and is therefore not troubled by system files, visible or otherwise. Oh @Nick Cooper , I'm sorry ... In case and in any other case, Windows System see processes demanding its attention, be it FTXCentral, P3D, Google etc. But ... I may be wrong, it's been some time since I've been swimming in these waters ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Attwood Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 Does this sound like a fault in FTXC 3.3? If so, can we roll back to the previous version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Hello Ron, you should find C:\Users\your name\AppData\Local\Orbx\FTXCentral\v3.2.5.7 and if you start FTX Central using the FTXCentral.exe file in there, you will have version 3.2.5.7. I am not sure how much space is required for the extracting and installation process though, for me, a download is over 5 hours and I wouldn't want you to wait for that and then not have it succeed. Have you considered a manual download? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Attwood Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 LOL I just came back to let you know that's exactly what I'm doing. The download started immediately. Coming down at 20-40MB/s. I'll be back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben McClintock Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Hi all, I'm working on this issue now. Stay tuned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Attwood Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 Well, it installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben McClintock Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 2 minutes ago, Ron Attwood said: Well, it installed. That's great to hear! Are you not experiencing the disk space issue anymore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Attwood Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 I used 3.2 FTXC and it went OK. In fact the whole thing was installed in 1hour 20 minutes! I haven't updated FTXC yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben McClintock Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Could anyone who is experiencing issues with the disk size please run this tool and report back? Thank you for your assistance OrbxDiskTool.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomasFalubo Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Hi, just charing my installation process here: 1. I made a manual download - Got a zipfile 75,7 gb "_fulOrbxTrueEarthNetherlandsHD100.zip". 2. Started the installation with the option "I have a manual downloaded zip file". 3. The installation unzipped this file into a bunch of folders onto a temp folder (another 75 gb). 4. Then the installation wanted to download the files ones more from Orbx!? - I stopped that installation. Started again but chose "I already have a backup" and pointed to the already unzipped folder. 5. After 10-15 minutes with status "Scanning" the "Extracting" process started where the installation generated another map with files (another 75 gb - that is now 227,1 gb of diskspace)! 6. Status: "Installing". Everythings been installed now to the P3D folder. After that the temp files from the map with files was deleted. But for me with the manual downloaded file it required almost 300 gb to install the package (and now I wanna fly!) Regards Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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