preventing or changing destination folder of MP .trk files

[fitness88]

Is there a way to prevent the saving of multiplayer .trk files to your drive or possibly change the destination folder?

 

Thank you.

[SVgamer72]

You can use a symbolic link. This is a common practice in Linux, supported by Windows, and a nice way to move files/folders without disturbing apps.

 

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

[fitness88]

You can use a symbolic link. This is a common practice in Linux, supported by Windows, and a nice way to move files/folders without disturbing apps.

 

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

 

Thanks, I've a question. Does the file get installed first to the original folder then cut and pasted into the redirected folder?

Also I'm wondering which .lua file has the path for sending the file to the saved games folder, it's easily changeable?

Edited January 19, 2020 by fitness88

[SVgamer72]

Once the link is created all new files will be written to the new location, but think they are in writing to the original location.

[fitness88]

What about locking the folder so nothing can be written to it?

There may be a setting to change whether .trk files are saved?

[robgraham]

ok in config folder of saved games\dcs or saved games\dcs.openbeta or whatever you want to call it

 

make a file called autoexec.cfg

 

put this line into it

 

disable_write_track = true

 

no more track files being written.

[fitness88]

ok in config folder of saved games\dcs or saved games\dcs.openbeta or whatever you want to call it

 

make a file called autoexec.cfg

 

put this line into it

 

disable_write_track = true

 

no more track files being written.

 

Thanks for this...I already have an autoexec.cfg there can I just add the line just below my last command line?

log.set_output("dcs", "", log.ALL, log.FULL)

no_device_hotplug = true

[fitness88]

Added disable_write_track = true below the second line...didn't keep the MP track from being written and saved.

 

log.set_output("dcs", "", log.ALL, log.FULL)

no_device_hotplug = true

disable_write_track = true

 

edit: Made no difference when I removed the first 2 lines.

Edited January 23, 2020 by fitness88

[fitness88]

I picked this additional info up from a search I did.

From Mustang:

"a .trk file will still be generated in your Users\<name>\Saved Games\DCS\Tracks\Multiplayer folder but it will only be the mission contents and nothing more, notice the file size of the .trk does not grow in size."

Quite correct, if I fly the same mission for a long time or short time in MP the file is always the same size 1300 KB. A far cry from hundreds of megabytes that I'm used to seeing per flight.

Edited February 4, 2020 by fitness88

[Rudel_chw]

make a file called autoexec.cfg

 

put this line into it

 

disable_write_track = true

 

no more track files being written.

 

Good tip, thank you :thumbup: