Transfer my trainz over to external hard-drive.

[railroy19]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!!

I want to transfer my AURAN trainz 2010 to my external F drive and operate trainz from that drive only so I can free up space on my internal C drive.
Because I have so much loaded into trainz that it takes up about 85% of my hard drive. This is what I think I have to do to accomplish this.
Click on my auran folder and then send to f-drive. Is this the proper way to achieve this? I will then delete the whole folder in my hard drive. to free up operating space. Do you think this will work OK ?

Thanks,
Bob

 

[clam1952]

If it's a USB drive then it will be considerably slower and affect performance, better and cheaper to add an additional internal drive. 99% of PC's have space for at least 2 hard drives, most motherboards can handle 4 or more these days.
External USB drives are only really suitable for data storage and backups not running programs that require frequent disk access. Firewire is I think somewhere between USB2 and USB3, all are a lot slower than an internal drive, E Sata may be OK.

If you click send to it will certainly move it however you will have to manually set up shortcuts and delete the original plus you will find you have to setup the file associations. Not a good idea if you are not an experienced user, better to install it properly.

Have you done a clean up of temporary files etc? as that will often clear a lot of space on a hard drive.

 

[shaneturner12]

It is always safer to reinstall the game if moving it to another drive.

Shane

 

[Axeman3813]

Re-Install

and thats where you get into backups and archiving, even upload your route. I was just reading about keywords on assets, and boy I sure would want that work to be saved.

 

[railroy19]

Ok looks like I'm going to get another hard drive for the desktop.
My local for folder is over 100 gb of downloads alone. So many unused assets from downloading routes over the many years.
Maybe I should just hit delete and start from scratch:hehe: I love" HITTING MYSELF IN THE HEAD" It feels so good when I stop.

Maybe I will!!!

Thanks for advice guys.

Bob

 

[Deano5]

External drives are not made for running games from, your sure to burn it out. HDD's are so cheap these days and so easy to fit you can put a new Trainz drive in the comp for just a few £-$'s.
I have so many drives now I can't find a darn thing anywhere.
Cheap as Chips. :wave:

 

[Gandalf0444]

External drives are not made for running games from, your sure to burn it out. HDD's are so cheap these days and so easy to fit you can put a new Trainz drive in the comp for just a few £-$'s.
I have so many drives now I can't find a darn thing anywhere.
Cheap as Chips. :wave:

No they really ARE NOT cheap these days, the prices of them have soared up considerably these past few months, the same drive could have been bought 5 months ago for about 50 bucks less then what the current prices are.

 

[JCitron]

No they really ARE NOT cheap these days, the prices of them have soared up considerably these past few months, the same drive could have been bought 5 months ago for about 50 bucks less then what the current prices are.

True. The floods in Thailand have shutdown 60% of the hard drive manufacturing in the world, causing a shortage of not just drives but also components as well. This has caused Dell and Lenovo to prepare for reporting losses, and Intel has already lowered its earnings predictions due to the same reason.

Interesting enough, in the middle of all this, Hitachi has created and released a 4TB drive. The drive is $349 right now. Nice size, but it's too slow at 5900 RPM!

I'd think about the drive it was $150 less and it came from another manufacturer. The Hitachi drives are still the IBM drives. Remember the DeathStars and their click of death? I'd be scared to back anything up on to this thing.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5214/hitachi-ships-the-first-4tb-hard-drives

John

 

[mjolnir]

I want ot transfer my AURAN trainz 2010 to my external F drive and operate trainz from that drive only so I can free up space on my internal C drive.
Because I have so much loaded into trainz that it takes up about 85% of my hard drive.

Not because of this thread, but it just so happens that I installed TS 2010 this morning, with all the current patches. The "pure" (that is, only built in content) installations is a bit less than 8 GB.

This leads to two suggestions for resolving your situation. First, open CM, choose the downloaded assets you rarely use, archive them to optical media or thumb drives, and remove them from your installation. This will free up space on your HDD.

A second alternative: since a brand new installation is less than 8 GB, one could get a 16 or 32 GB USB thumb drive, and install the game to that. I've successfully run 2006 from a thumb drive. If you use the second suggestion, it would still be a good idea to archive your downloads to back-up media, though. At least that's what I'd do.

ns

 

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