Moving Add-on Scenery

[zswobbie1]

I'm running my P3D from a 2TB portable drive, and is working perfectly, but....
initial scenery takes a bit of time to load, I have about 400 add-on scenery entries, mainly from Tongass & RTMM.

Would things speed up if I move my add-on scenery folder to the SSD?
And would just redoing the path in the scenery.cfg entries work? I'd hate to do the editing by hand!

Thoughts on that?

[zswobbie1]

Any ideas to prevent me redoing the whole library ?

[blaunarwal]

Sure an SSD would make things much faster.

Scenerie paths in Scenery.cfg can edited. If you have your sceneries in D:\flightsim sceneries\ExampleScenery and move them to E:\addons\ you just need an editor like notepad++ and you replace the path D:\flightsim sceneries\ with E:\addons\
This is done quickly, save and everything will be fine.

It's harder to move the sceneries if they are in D:\Users\yourname\Documents\Prepar3D v5 Add-ons
Then you have to move either your windows document library or just the discovery path from Prepar3d. Can't remember where this is safed. Some helper tools like lorby-si addon manager also can help you here. And as explained before, you can also edit add-ons.cfg files, to show the new path. But be concentrated. Mistakes are painful.

Dan

[zswobbie1]

Thanks, that is what I thought.
Now to pluck up courage to do the renaming of the path. I'll do it for my add-on sceneries only.