a big colection af airplanes

[Jakemaster]

Thats why Im gonna do a reinstall, just keep the best ones.

[Hagar]

Thats why Im gonna do a reinstall, just keep the best ones.

Is there any real need to reinstall just to do that? I've never tried reinstalling FS9 but from all the problems I've seen reported in this forum alone I would be a tad wary of trying & only do it it as a last resort.

[Jakemaster]

Ive done it before.  The biggest problem is even if you delete the planes, you still have all the gauges.  By default, FS has a few hundred, but after a while I have a couple thousand.

Right now my gauge folder has a total of 2,535 files.  491MB
Planes total 304 (not including varients ie repaints). 8.52GB
Effects: 488 files, 8.78 MB
Addon Scenery: 575MG

Total: 78,003 files, 2,679 folders,  14,015,074,304 bytes (13.0 GB)  Thats 14 BILLION bytes

Im just gonna run a defrag, cleanup, and get rid of some fs stuff to hopefully help my pc

[SkyNoz]

Mine......


Total FS9:

[BFMF]

[quote]FS9 aircraft:

[Moach]

i have 150+ aircraft... i keep the zip files in a folder (just in case) and that folder is over a gig in weight


i don't have all installed tho

but all of them have DVCs


DVC addict Moach

[beaky]

9.87 GB; not sure how many aircraft. Many Inever fly but have been too lazy to get rid of... and for every purge, there's a splurge...
Only have one payware aircraft so far...

[SkyNoz]

On average, how much do you fly every aircraft you have?

I okay, alittle about what I do for my sim. I averaged about 10-15 hours when I first got FS2004, haveing to learn and haveing all the Addons I wanted. Now, I average about

[Hagar]

[quote]Ive done it before.

[Jakemaster]

Im not going to reinstall.  Im just going to get rid of planes I dont use, and also fix a problem (fs crashes at TNCM)

Hey Moach, Im a DVC addict to, but 150+  Any suggestions?

[Marlin]

you still have all the gauges.

I use flight sim manager, and it has an option that deletes all unused gauges. If you want it to back them up it will, just in case. It sure makes installing and deleting planes, screnery... real easy.

Maybe that is why mine (plane folder) is only at 3.61G

[Hagar]

I use flight sim manager, and it has an option that deletes all unused gauges. If you want it to back them up it will, just in case. It sure makes installing and deleting planes, screnery... real easy.

Maybe that is why mine (plane folder) is only at 3.61G

I haven't tried Flight Sim Manager so cannot comment. I've seen many problems caused by these manager utilities removing gauges still in use & it takes some time to troubleshoot & fix them, especially if this affects more than one aircraft. Unless you install 3rd party gauges to the Panel folders of individual aircraft the size of your Aircraft folder will be unaffected by the number of surplus gauges. Unless you're desperately short of HD space they will do no harm whatsoever if left right where they are.

[killerbunny]

Total FS9 folder : 10.3gb

aircraft folder : 5.96gb, 267 aircraft folders

When I install a plane I keep the used space as low as possible by deleting the screenshots, readmes (not manuals) and liveries I don't like.  My largest aircraft folder is 109mb but thats the only one that goes over 100.

There is also some scenery stuff on another HD but that isn't much.

I really need to delete unused gauges, i think there must be lots of those in that folder (745mb)


@ ecko : 75 gigs?  :o

[Hagar]

I really need to delete unused gauges, i think there must be lots of those in that folder (745mb)

Not necessary unless you're desperate for space. Why not get into the habit of installing gauges to the Panel folder of the new aircraft? FS9 can read them from there so you can check it all out. If you decide to keep the aircraft these can then be transferred to FS9\Gauges. If not, simply delete the aircraft complete with gauges.

PS. I check out a lot of aircraft & panels I don't intend keeping. I find this feature of FS9 most convenient.

[killerbunny]

Not necessary unless you're desperate for space. Why not get into the habit of installing gauges to the Panel folder of the new aircraft? FS9 can read them from there so you can check it all out. If you decide to keep the aircraft these can then be transferred to FS9\Gauges. If not, simply delete the aircraft complete with gauges.

PS. I check out a lot of aircraft & panels I don't intend keeping. I find this feature of FS9 most convenient.

I just don't like useless files on my comp taking up valuable space

I downloaded that Flight sim manager mentionned above.  Now that is one very usefull tool!  I Found lots of errors in my aircrafts that way.  A real must-have IMHO