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General Category => Suggestions and wishlist => Topic started by: Wedgewood on December 23, 2016, 05:23:59 PM

Title: Saving Space
Post by: Wedgewood on December 23, 2016, 05:23:59 PM
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.
Title: Re: Saving Space
Post by: 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 (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).
Title: Re: Saving Space
Post by: Wedgewood on December 28, 2016, 11:49:42 PM
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 (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.
Title: Re: Saving Space
Post by: Wedgewood on December 29, 2016, 01:22:19 AM
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.