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SymLink The little known windows trick every Flight Sim enthusiast needs to know.

Scenery is a must for any flight sim enthusiast but we all know it eats hard drive space like Mr T eats hamburgers, our custom scenery locations are hard coded into our software, here's how to use a separate drive for some of your scenery and present it to Xplane or p3d as if it was in the main folder. Deep with in windows is a little known feature - Symlink, the ability to present a folder from a separate drive as if it existed physically on another. As in all things there is a performance hit but flight sims load everything into memory before the flight starts so our performance hit is the load time on the flight, without impacting the FPS of the flight. This can be done without any tools in windows command line or the free utility used in this tutorial is available here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/syml... for this example: our install folder is c:/program files/xplane c:/program files/xplane /custom scenery is our standard custom scenery path d:/custom scenery/UK_HD_mesh is where we decompressed our new scenery UK_HD_mesh is our top level folder name of the new scenery prep - decompress your scenery to a drive where you have space, copy/memorise/write down the top level directory name of your new scenery, ie UK_HD_mesh Always worth checking when installing any scenery is, once decompressed, directly under the top level folder you should see a folder called Earth Nav Data, if not something's wrong with how it was decompressed usually another folder double nested with the same name as the top level so find the files and move them up 1 level. ie custom scenery/uk_hd_mesh/uk_hd_mesh/earth nav data - is bad move everything so you have the following structure: custom scenery/uk_hd_mesh/earth nav data most of the openx scenery decompresses with this bad structure. run the symlink creator choose /j hard directory link as the type - this makes the link permanent. click the first browse button and navigate to the standard install location of the custom scenery. we need to edit the path we just selected with browse and add the top level folder name we would like to create, click into the box to the left of the first browse button, scroll to the end and add a forward slash then paste the name of the new scenery folder, in our example it now reads c:/program files/xplane/custom scenery/UK_HD_mesh now click the second browse button, navigate to your new scenery on a different drive, highlight the top level directory with the name copied above, click ok. In our example this should now read d:/custom scenery/UK_HD_mesh Click create link and check within your standard custom scenery for the new folder name, it should look like a normal folder but will have a tiny arrow symbol in it's icon showing us it's a symlink folder. Limitations, the new directory name must not already exist within the standard CS location. we need to repeat for every folder we want to present in custom scenery ie, usa_hd_north_mesh and usa_hd_south mesh are 2 folders within custom scenery so we need to create a symlink for each one individually. Symlinking directories above Custom Scenery will get you into a mess requiring a reinstall unless you have a photographic memory - don't go there! Also works for aircraft, nav data or any other space hungry path under the main install location.