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Started by Wedgewood, December 23, 2016, 05:23:59 PM

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Wedgewood

The amount of space that the "bikes" and "tracks" folder take up when the mods are added is very large and taking up crucial space on small SSD's.  A sollution would be to allow additional bike and track add-ons to be placed on another harddrive and called upon using a shortcut.  This way we can keep the game itself, taking up very little space on the SSD for performance benefits, and keep the 10+GB bike and track add-ons on a standard harddrive.

The game itself takes up 1.24GB but with downloaded bikes and tracks it's now above 16GB and getting bigger, and because of this I find myself removing the game from my SSD completely each time I'm finished playing.

HornetMaX

You can play with junctions if you want: https://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/windows/desktop/aa365006(v=vs.85).aspx

I once used it to "share" the tracks folder across separate GPB installs (same PC).

Wedgewood

Quote from: HornetMaX on December 28, 2016, 10:09:04 PM
You can play with junctions if you want: https://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/windows/desktop/aa365006(v=vs.85).aspx

I once used it to "share" the tracks folder across separate GPB installs (same PC).

This might be exactly what I'm looking for.  Thanks for the reply.

Wedgewood

December 29, 2016, 01:22:19 AM #3 Last Edit: December 29, 2016, 02:11:06 AM by Wedgewood
Amazing,  i now have the game itself on my SSD with the 'bikes" and "tracks" folders now on my HDD using hard links.  This saved me 14GBs on my SSD.