stevebarker12 Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 Can the Orbx App be installed on a different drive other than my C drive? I dont want any folders# taking up space on my C drive Thankyou for your assistance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dow Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 Since it sits in the appdata location of your Users folder I'd say it needs to be there for all sorts of reasons. I guess you could research whether you can use some sort of linking program to move it somewhere else and point to it, but my gut feeling is that would cause more problems even if you could do it. Unfortunately some things have to be in the Users folder and that sits in the C Drive and I think you'll have to live with it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wain71 Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 if you are talking about Orbx Central mine only takes up less than 1gig of space, also if I didn't have Volanta it would be half of that....if you men your libraries and backups well you can put them anywhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebarker12 Posted September 15, 2023 Author Share Posted September 15, 2023 Thanks for responding.It is the central i meant. My c drive is very full and 270mb of Orbx app is on my c drive - tiny but still there . Need a new pc ! I all ready use addonlinker for the actual scenery files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smudger Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 52 minutes ago, stevebarker12 said: Need a new pc ! You could just get a bigger SSD, I backed up my old 1TB SSD drive, installed a new 2TB SSD and restored all to that, cheaper and quicker than a new PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebarker12 Posted September 15, 2023 Author Share Posted September 15, 2023 Thankyou. Im afraid my PC knowledge doesnt extend to replacing my internal SSD C drive with a larger SSD - unless it involves plugging it in externally via a USB !! 😀 Bit beyond my capability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dow Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 Almost guaranteed there would be all sorts of temp files and the like sitting on your c drive. There's a program called tree size free that let's you quickly get a visual representation of all the folder and subfolder sizes. There are also many programs that can detect unused files and delete them, I used to use one called ccleaner. They allow you to choose categories and files to delete. When space was a problem for me I used to get a lot of room by just locating the temp files for internet Explorer, that folder was usually GBs in size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebarker12 Posted September 16, 2023 Author Share Posted September 16, 2023 Brilliant.Thankyou very much. Deleting the temp files has saved me some space.I will try the tree size software as well.I have CC cleaner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebarker12 Posted September 16, 2023 Author Share Posted September 16, 2023 Your Treesize suggestion is brilliant.Its saving me GBs of space. i am getting rid of files i no longer need. Many thanks !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W2DR Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 17 hours ago, stevebarker12 said: Im afraid my PC knowledge doesnt extend to replacing my internal SSD C drive with a larger SSD - unless it involves plugging it in externally via a USB !! It is just that simple. A disc drive docking station connected to a USB port will solve the problem. It can be used with either a SSD or a HDD. Here's one source of more information https://www.andrewmacarthy.com/andrew-macarthy-social-media/best-hard-drive-docking-station . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebarker12 Posted September 16, 2023 Author Share Posted September 16, 2023 Cheers.Ill look into this. Kind regards Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebarker12 Posted September 16, 2023 Author Share Posted September 16, 2023 But i cant see how the c drive would be disabled - physically and IT wise - and replaced with an external drive in the docking station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilot100 Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 Try this, should give you some help and insight. It really isn't that hard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W2DR Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 12 hours ago, stevebarker12 said: But i cant see how the c drive would be disabled - physically and IT wise - and replaced with an external drive in the docking station. I'm sorry. I wasn't too clear. I didn't mean move your C drive to the external drive. Leave the C drive where it is and move other stuff like Orbx to the external drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebarker12 Posted September 17, 2023 Author Share Posted September 17, 2023 Thankyou and thanks for the video re using external ssd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Abernathy Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 Like you Steve, I ran out of space on my C drive. Local PC shop replaced my 250GB SSD with 1 Terrabyte SSD for $200, parts and labor. Plus they cloned my old C drive to the new one. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebarker12 Posted September 22, 2023 Author Share Posted September 22, 2023 On 9/19/2023 at 4:55 AM, Rob Abernathy said: Like you Steve, I ran out of space on my C drive. Local PC shop replaced my 250GB SSD with 1 Terrabyte SSD for $200, parts and labor. Plus they cloned my old C drive to the new one. Think ill invest in a new pc in next 6 months. Im just about managing with 250gb at moment. Next pc will have to be several TBs! 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 Hello, judging by your first post, your C drive is not the only one. I guess that I may be a fairly typical flight simulator user and yet my C drive looks like this: As mentioned above, unless there are numerous programs in use that have nothing to do with flight simulation, all storing huge files on the C drive, a C drive should not need to be any larger than 250 GB. I would guess that with a little more housekeeping, you could well find that you don't need a larger one. As an aside, the rest of my PC has 16TB of internal storage available and another 10TB of external storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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