Updater says I have files that dont belong....

[RichardG]

In my User/Documents folder. Then it lists everything in my Docs folder. Why is it looking there??

[grigoris]

DCS is looking at the wrong Disk for update!

 

DCS is looking at the wrong Disk! Be carefull it will delete everything

[RichardG]

So does anyone at ED know how to fix this?

[Rudel_chw]

In my User/Documents folder. Then it lists everything in my Docs folder. Why is it looking there??

 

The updater has a log file: autoupdate_log.txt

 

.. attach it so we can take a look rather than make guesses.

[RichardG]

Here is my log file.

autoupdate_log.txt

[Rudel_chw]

Here is my log file.

 

Strange, the Update Log does not show anything unusual, can you please show us the file "autoupdate_settings.cfg" that is on the DCS program folder?

 

For example, mine has this contents:

 

{
"download_dir": "E:\\DCS_Temp"
}

 

On my case, I use this line to tell the updater where I want to store the update files, so that it uses a different disk than the one that hold DCS.

[RichardG]

Here is cfg.

 

Updater is looking at my D drive docs folder. Game is on C drive.

autoupdate_settings.cfg

[BIGNEWY]

Hi

 

Using your documents folder for a custom download location for DCS is a bad idea

 

{
"download_dir": "D:\\Richard\\Documents"
}

 

My advice if you have room on the disk dcs is using is to delete "autoupdate_settings.cfg" this will reset the download location to the default which is _downloads in the dcs install location.

 

or change the location for a folder that ONLY contains DCS related downloads.

[Rudel_chw]

Here is cfg.

 

Updater is looking at my D drive docs folder. Game is on C drive.

 

Hi,

 

BigNewy is correct, but I assume that you are short on space on the C: drive. So you may prefer to devote an empty folder as DCS download location, for example you can edit the config file so that it is this way:

 

{
"download_dir": "D:\\DCS_Temp"
}

 

This way it is easier in the future to recognize that this is a temporary data location.

Best regards,

 

 

Eduardo