lesthegrngo Posted January 12, 2023 Posted January 12, 2023 My son has left his PC with me so that I can use it to to test all my cockpit gear with DCS, but when I tried to download DCS World (non steam edition)it tells me there is not enough space on the disk. However there is plenty of space on other drives, but DCS doesn't give you an option of where to download to Is there a way to change where it downloads to? Cheers Les
MAXsenna Posted January 12, 2023 Posted January 12, 2023 The installer doesn't download? Because, when you install, you should be able to change the path to another drive.If the disk is full so you cannot download the installer, you need to clean out the drive. "Downloads" is a good place to start.Cheers! Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk
lesthegrngo Posted January 12, 2023 Author Posted January 12, 2023 His downloads are set to the C drive which only has 45Gb space, but it's his PC - I don't want to mess it up for him Why is there no 'download to' option? Cheers Les
MAXsenna Posted January 12, 2023 Posted January 12, 2023 His downloads are set to the C drive which only has 45Gb space, but it's his PC - I don't want to mess it up for him Why is there no 'download to' option? Cheers LesThat's a Windows/browser thing. Nothing to do with DCS.What you could do, is ask your son, if you can relocate the download folder to another drive, or use a browser with an extension, that makes it possible to choose where to download.OR get a thumb drive, download/copy on your computer, then install. 45GB, how's that possible? Old spindle?Cheers! Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk
Scott-S6 Posted January 12, 2023 Posted January 12, 2023 You could change the path of the default download location in Windows registry. Or change the download location in the browser settings to something other than the windows default. Or you could right click on the download button on the dcs page, select save as and then choose the location. 1
No1sonuk Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 IIRC, you move the updater file to the drive/folder you want and run it. It then installs the files there. That's how I copied my DCS to a new PC.
lesthegrngo Posted January 13, 2023 Author Posted January 13, 2023 Hi all I just moved the downloads folder to another drive with over a terabyte free space and tried again, and it still comes up with the same message. I moved the install.exe file to the new downloads folder and tried again, no luck. It wants to only try and install in the C drive, I can't see any option to change the installation or download to folder Any ideas? Cheers Les
Scott-S6 Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 (edited) Your problem is where the installer is caching files, not where the installer is downloaded to? Your original post was ambiguous. Let me take a look. Edited January 13, 2023 by Scott-S6
No1sonuk Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 Did you change the properties of the updater to run in the directory you moved it to? If you just move the files, the original run location may be retained.
lesthegrngo Posted January 13, 2023 Author Posted January 13, 2023 What I did was open explorer, clicked on 'my computer', then right clicked on the downloads folder. From there, 'properties', then 'location' and changed it to F:/Downloads It then asked me if I wanted to move all the downloads into that folder and I clicked 'yes' As for properties of the updater, this is a complete new install on my son's PC, so the only thing I am doing is on the web clicking on the 'download' button on the DCS World page, then opening the .exe file that pops up in the corner. From there, there are no other options other than do you want to continue Am I missing something? Cheers Les
Scott-S6 Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 (edited) When you run the installer it asks where you want to install and I've just verified that the files it's downloading all go there, there's no write traffic on other drives. ETA - is it telling you there's not enough space before you select an install folder? Edited January 13, 2023 by Scott-S6
lesthegrngo Posted January 13, 2023 Author Posted January 13, 2023 There is none of those options, because it does not ask for any directories, it just goes straight to 'not enough space' At no point does it give me any other options other than to proceed or cancel Cheers Les
Rudel_chw Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, lesthegrngo said: There is none of those options, because it does not ask for any directories, it just goes straight to 'not enough space' At no point does it give me any other options other than to proceed or cancel That's not how it goes on my PC ... the installer does allow to select a folder, like this: The highlighted text is editable .. I just changed the drive but chose to keep the folder structure intact (for simplicity): Just before the install you can review your options, like this: Maybe you have so little space on the C drive that the installer can't run? Best regards Edited January 13, 2023 by Rudel_chw For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
lesthegrngo Posted January 13, 2023 Author Posted January 13, 2023 Sorry, but it doesn't show any of that, the only options are install, cancel, yes or no. It gets to the updater, then says not enough space without ever asking for an install location Cheers Les
Rudel_chw Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 1 hour ago, lesthegrngo said: Sorry, but it doesn't show any of that, the only options are install, cancel, yes or no. It gets to the updater, then says not enough space without ever asking for an install location What updater? you are not using the first-time installer? ... on my PC the full install sequence is like this: The next screen is the license agreement: then the Epylepsy warning: Then the destination select dialog, that I shown on my previous post. Afterwards its the Start menu icon creation: And then its the final confirmation that I showed on my prior post. For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
lesthegrngo Posted January 13, 2023 Author Posted January 13, 2023 All of those show up to the epilepsy warning, then when you click NEXT, it goes straight to Select Additional Tasks, missing out the location dialog box Les
Rudel_chw Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 1 hour ago, lesthegrngo said: All of those show up to the epilepsy warning, then when you click NEXT, it goes straight to Select Additional Tasks, missing out the location dialog box Ok, I don't know what may be going on with your install ... here it seems to work properly on my PC. It's a weird issue, hopefully someone else may have a better idea to help you with. For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
lesthegrngo Posted January 13, 2023 Author Posted January 13, 2023 I've tried the usual stuff - restart the PC, gone in and deleted the install DCS was trying to do in the default location and the folder, but for some reason it seems to be hard wired to install in C:/Program File/Eagle Dynamics I should have been a beta tester for Microsoft, I would have found all the bugs for them.... Cheers Les
Scott-S6 Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 (edited) Are you trying regular or open beta? I tested the open beta installer and it definitely asks you for a location. Edited January 13, 2023 by Scott-S6
lesthegrngo Posted January 13, 2023 Author Posted January 13, 2023 Regular - I'll try the beta version tomorrow, I assume it works with DCS Bios ok? Cheers Les
No1sonuk Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 8 minutes ago, lesthegrngo said: Regular - I'll try the beta version tomorrow, I assume it works with DCS Bios ok? Yes. I use Open Beta with DCS-BIOS.
lesthegrngo Posted January 14, 2023 Author Posted January 14, 2023 The Beta version worked fine, came up with the dialog box to select the path. So, either the non-beta version installer has a glitch, or the installation is only allowed in one specific location, though why that would be is beyond me Thanks for the help guys Les 1
Scott-S6 Posted January 14, 2023 Posted January 14, 2023 I think they've broken it temporarily. It clearly hasn't always been like that because I have the regular version installed in a non-standard location.
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