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Moving Add-on Scenery

zswobbie1

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I'm running my P3D from a 2TB portable drive, and is working perfectly, but....
initial scenery takes a bit of time to load, I have about 400 add-on scenery entries, mainly from Tongass & RTMM.

Would things speed up if I move my add-on scenery folder to the SSD?
And would just redoing the path in the scenery.cfg entries work? I'd hate to do the editing by hand!

Thoughts on that?
 
Sure an SSD would make things much faster.

Scenerie paths in Scenery.cfg can edited. If you have your sceneries in D:\flightsim sceneries\ExampleScenery and move them to E:\addons\ you just need an editor like notepad++ and you replace the path D:\flightsim sceneries\ with E:\addons\
This is done quickly, save and everything will be fine.

It's harder to move the sceneries if they are in D:\Users\yourname\Documents\Prepar3D v5 Add-ons
Then you have to move either your windows document library or just the discovery path from Prepar3d. Can't remember where this is safed. Some helper tools like lorby-si addon manager also can help you here. And as explained before, you can also edit add-ons.cfg files, to show the new path. But be concentrated. Mistakes are painful.

Dan
 
Thanks, that is what I thought.
Now to pluck up courage to do the renaming of the path. I'll do it for my add-on sceneries only.
 
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