ED filling up my SSD resp. the "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Frontier_Developments\Products\" folder => deleting possible?

Starman 1966

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Hi there

The question is already in the topic. I have a 256 GB SSD with Win 10, some office applications, Elite Dangerous and not much else installed. Now it's almost full. A closer look revealed the above mentioned folder with the following structure:

[COMBAT_TUTORIAL_DEMO] 1.7 GB of data
[elite-dangerous-64] 62 GB of data
[elite-dangerous-pdyssey-64] 54 GB of data

Does the game need all those files or could I safely delete them to regain 95 GB of SSD space? The game installation itself occupies 34 GB only.

Thank you!
 

Robert Maynard

Volunteer Moderator
Robert Maynard
It depends which version you want to play.

Legacy / Horizons / Base: keep "elite-dangerous-64";
Live / Odyssey / Horizons: keep "elite-dangerous-odyssey-64".

The combat tutorial can also be deleted if not needed.
 

avow555

avow555
Starman 1966 said:
Ouch. Bigger SSD needed in this case. Almost 100 GB disk space for one game. My first HDD back in the day had 20 MB of space...
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Ah 20meg, that takes me back, lol.
Anyway, I would seriously get another SSD/HDD and pop your game across to that.
120Gb SSD are very cheap these days if you're on a budget.

I have Elite on a HDD at the moment keeping my boot drive free for the OS and essential programs.
 

Mrc_NorthEast

Mrc_NorthEast
Ashnak said:
You should have opted for the RLL controller 😁
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MFM, RLL, and SCSI... yep really old, I held out until SCSI. I think it was also 30m or 40m...

OP: I agree get a bigger SSD and you also check to see if the previous opening movie files (not needed to run the game) are still there, your space used for legacy does seem a bit high.
 

Northpin

Northpin
Starman 1966 said:
My first HDD back in the day had 20 MB of space...
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My first hdd was also 20MB, but i had games fitting on a single 360KB 5.25" FloppyDisk.
(my first IBM PC XT had 2x 5.25" 360KB FDD, later on i added a 20MB HDD)

IMO get a 1TB SSD, they're quite cheap currently

Starman 1966 said:
[COMBAT_TUTORIAL_DEMO] 1.7 GB of data
[elite-dangerous-64] 62 GB of data
[elite-dangerous-pdyssey-64] 54 GB of data
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My [elite-dangerous-64] folder is 19.8 GB of data >>> and it's the Legacy (aka Horizons 3.8) version of the game
My [elite-dangerous-odyssey-64] is 50.8 GB of data >>> and it's the Live game (aka Horizons 4.0 and Odyssey)

No idea why your Legacy folder is that big?
maybe check it - there is a possibility you have screenshots there or some old beta versions?
 
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Neilski

Neilski
LOL, when I played Elite on my Spectrum 48k it only had 48kB of RAM (OK, plus maybe a wee bit of the other 16kB). And yet it was awesome...
My current ED installation is well over 1 million times bigger! :) (A little over 70GB at present.)
 

Robert Maynard

Volunteer Moderator
Robert Maynard
Alec Turner said:
Was curious, just checked mine ... 50Gb here.
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Been thinking about possible reasons for the apparent discrepancy - how big is your "Logs" directory inside "elite-dangerous-64"? mine's 766MB

Properties dialog for everything in the "elite-dangerous-64" folder apart from the "Logs" folder:
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Neilski

Neilski
Robert Maynard said:
Been thinking about possible reasons for the apparent discrepancy - how big is your "Logs" directory inside "elite-dangerous-64"? mine's 766MB
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That'd be a bit of a stretch ;) (Even a couple of gigs of logs would be hard work I reckon.)
However, if it does turn out to be the case that the logs are a big chunk, then one semi-trivial fix is to mark that folder as compressed - should dramatically cut the disk space usage (cos those files are very compressible). Or just back 'em up and delete if not actively used (e.g. if they span multiple careers).

My money's on it being a typo :whistle:;)
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
ED64: 20 GB, including 75 MB of logs
EDO64: 50 GB, including 11 MB of logs
test server from 2020: 20 GB... I should delete this some time
 

TimH255

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Picking up on this thread, I originally installed ED via the Frontier Store, but I then switched to Steam. I seem to have a product folder here C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Elite Dangerous\Products and here C:\Users\tim\AppData\Local\Frontier_Developments\Products

Both folders contain elite-dangerous-odyssey-64 which is 50GB.

I've deleted the folder from the AppData location and left the Steam one; seems to work OK.

But in the Products folder under the Steam path, there are two other folders:
FORC-FDEV-DO-38-IN-40 (50.1GB)
and
FORC-FDEV-DO-1000 (50.1GB)

Can I safely get rid of these two? I don't see why ED has to take up so much disk space!

Thanks.
 
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