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c: is running ourt of space. What procedure is recomended to move the FSX dir to another drive, say E: without reinstalling aircrafts, etc? (I run win vista)

Well if you were to move the file (as in, copy and paste) it may not work as the registry might not look in the right area and parts may not load.

You could copy the aeroplanes, gauges and effects folder to a backup location (if you have scenery, etc, then copy that too) and then uninstall FSX and re-install it and paste the files back to their original location. That may work, but I have not tested it myself.

Ideally I would prefer to move the whole FSX directory and change something in an FSX setup to pint to the new plac in drive E:
I am affraid of uninstall FSX because I hv added so many things that I dont remember how to get back to where I am now

You can simply copy the whole fsx folder then move it. Either delete or rename the old one, There is a utility on avsim that will fix the path in the registry to the new folder. Then you may have to reinstall some planes as they may have wrong paths, or open the fsx.cfg file and look for incorrect paths and change them. Time consuming but sometimes it better to do a fresh install. FSX should do better on its own drive for once it is defragged it will pretty much stay that way unless you add moree stuuf to it, unlike the c drive which is constantky getting fragmented.

Follow Flye2e"s instructions listed under Important Topics. I just did a clean install. First I backed up FSX files usually associated with add-ons. Ex:  Airplane, gauges, sound, texture, add-on scenery, effect, any changes I made to the default copy. After re-loading FSX, I started re-loading selected add-ons. One thing I've noticed that FSX boot up seemed faster with the Raptor (10,000 RPM, 32M Buffer HD).

As stated above reinstalling FSX is the best choice...

To get some free space on C: without moving FSX from it you can outsource e.g. your entire SimObjects or Scenery folder (which in my case is several 100MB). You just have to enter the new location to the fsx.cfg [backup first!] 

Thnks
As silly as it sounds I can not find fsx.cfg. hints?

Thnks
As silly as it sounds I can not find fsx.cfg. hints?

This is the Vista version (probably quite similar on XP and near identical on 7):

Start Menu
Choose your account name (in the top right, usually it will be your name. It's above 'Documents')
Then choose App Data
Then choose Roaming
Then choose Microsoft
Then choose FSX
Then FSX.cfg is in there.

I recently copied the entire FSX folder to another drove, fixed some paths, and it works 100%.

8-)

Thnks - got it.