Addons on an extern HD?

[Flattermann]

Hi, a friend of mine asked me, if it would be possible to install some Addons (from the Folder 'Addon Scenery') on an extern HD. His intern HD is rather full. I think it could be but loading mistakes could also be. Are there some experiences?

[llivaudais]

Scenery on an external drive? Almost ALL of my addon scenery is on an exteral USB drive. Some is spread across 2 other HDD's. The simplest thing is to TRY some to check the loading time/performance; the sim doesn't care where it is...

 

Loyd

[Flattermann]

Thanks a lot for this quick and helpful answer!

[il88pp]

You can indeed put addon scenery on any drive. And activate it in the scenery library.

 

But, if you disconnect the drive, and start fsx, fsx will throw up a lot of messages when starting.

The messages are "Error, missing scenery area xxxxx".

There errors are benign. They won't stop fsx from running. But the addon area's (on the disconnected external disk) will of course not show up.

 

If you close fsx. Then connect the external disk. And start fsx again. The areas will again show up, and the error messages will be gone.

But... Only if the drive is connected with the same drive letter that it had whe you activated the addons.

 

There is a way to make sure that the external drive is always connected with the same drive letter. You do this in the Windows control panel. I think it's in the same control panel menu as formatting and partitioning. (be careful you don't accidentally format the drive btw. Formatting or partitioning would wipe the drive.)

[Flattermann]

Thank you,

in the meantime my friend told me he put the whole FSX on an external drive! Dont know if this could bring problems.