Shadow KT Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 I used it succesfully with last weeks update. 'Shadow' Everybody gotta be offended and take it personally now-a-days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOBBO45 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 On 7/19/2018 at 4:41 AM, Revs said: I figured it out. mklink /J "C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\_downloads" "D:\DCS Download Junction\_downloads" That will create _download link from to The could have been named anything else but the which is the link must only be named _download for it to fool DCS updater. And don't forget to right click command promt and run as Admin. This worked for me December 27/2020....Good work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow KT Posted January 4, 2021 Author Share Posted January 4, 2021 (edited) Nice. I've edited the original post a bit, to make it clearer. Edited January 4, 2021 by Shadow KT 1 'Shadow' Everybody gotta be offended and take it personally now-a-days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fri13 Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 It was nice when ED made the official updater to offer alternative download directory. But then someone had some problems with it and it was required to be removed. Now it is back to command line procedure that is causing a extra challenging step for new users. i7-8700k, 32GB 2666Mhz DDR4, 2x 2080S SLI 8GB, Oculus Rift S. i7-8700k, 16GB 2666Mhz DDR4, 1080Ti 11GB, 27" 4K, 65" HDR 4K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega One Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 (edited) Does anyone know if this link option still work?? I would love not to buy a new SSD. Edited May 27, 2021 by Omega One Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draconus Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 It has to work because it works on a system level and DCS is just app running on that system. Buy SSD anyway Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX3060 Rift S T16000M HOTAS FC3, F-14A/B, F-15E CA SC NTTR, PG, Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega One Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, draconus said: It has to work because it works on a system level and DCS is just app running on that system. Buy SSD anyway LOL... I have an SSD; the problem is theres 164Gbs left. I don't want to have to upgrade to a larger SSD if I dont have to. The more space I can save, the better. Edited May 27, 2021 by Omega One Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draconus Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Omega One said: the problem is theres 164Gbs left. There is no problem then. Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX3060 Rift S T16000M HOTAS FC3, F-14A/B, F-15E CA SC NTTR, PG, Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega One Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 (edited) 6 minutes ago, draconus said: There is no problem then. kinda is .... I've noticed every dcs update, its sucking up lots of storage. Thats with me deleting temp files/fxo/ tacview files/etc. I'm probably going to need a new SSD by November at this rate. So I'm looking for a solution where the updates can be used from my HDD which is 3 TBs. Edited May 27, 2021 by Omega One Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nodak Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/ Best bang for the buck is putting your maps on the separate drive, they're huge but all in the same folder. Than you have plenty of room for all the modules you can handle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow KT Posted May 28, 2021 Author Share Posted May 28, 2021 18 hours ago, Nodak said: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/ Best bang for the buck is putting your maps on the separate drive, they're huge but all in the same folder. Than you have plenty of room for all the modules you can handle. Yeah, I've been thinking about moving some of my maps, which I rarely use, or only for SP to another drive. 'Shadow' Everybody gotta be offended and take it personally now-a-days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yurgon Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 Just ran into the low space problem during a DCS update on my OpenBeta installation. A dedicated 500 GB SSD just doesn't cut it anymore. Well, okay, it won't take any more terrains, that much is for sure, but at least for now I can update DCS again. Awesome tip in the first post, thanks a lot man! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAXsenna Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 25 minutes ago, Yurgon said: Just ran into the low space problem during a DCS update on my OpenBeta installation. A dedicated 500 GB SSD just doesn't cut it anymore. Well, okay, it won't take any more terrains, that much is for sure, but at least for now I can update DCS again. Awesome tip in the first post, thanks a lot man! Hehe! I just noticed when I clicked update, that I was down to 60GB on my 2TB, luckily I managed to empty the recycle bin to get another 30GB, but that was it. Haven't been using Stable for a year+, so I guess that'll go next time. Will give me another 300GB+... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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