How to uninstall Elite?

Krash

Krash
I need to make hard drive space on my old PC.
This folder takes up 40gb on my puny 120gb HD:
C:\Users\Krash\AppData\Local\Frontier_Developments

I searched for the "uninstall" program with no luck. Neither is Elite listed in my Win10\Apps screen to uninstall.

Brute force deleting this folder manually is a last resort.

Any suggestions?
 

Greasetrap42

Greasetrap42
After unuinstalling and removing the launcher do a windows explorer search for "frontier" and delete all the stuff that the uninstaller didn't get rid of. There was quite a bit left over on my PC.
 

Hooplah

Hooplah
Might also want to do a registry search for 'Frontier' deleting items but make a backup just in case. Note as you paid for an online game it will always be on a Frontier server somewhere. You cannot delete that and Frontier doesn't care how many old or new computers that you install the game on. So if later you have the latest greatest computer and want to play just download a launcher from Frontier, install the game, enter your username and password and you are back into the ED universe with everything that you had before. Like an apple iPhone or iPad when you purchase an app then delete it then it is still in an iCloud somewhere if you want to get it back. Well until Frontier or Apple goes belly up.
 
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CMDR X

CMDR X
Paul Eddington said:
Time to check that option "Compress this drive to save disk space".
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Never, ever compress a drive to save space. For one, it drops drive performance in half.
For two, it makes data recovery twice as difficult. For three, it's not worth it. Most games
and media are already compressed to death and are not compressable any further.

Back in the days of DOS and 250MB drives this was OK practice but is just not feasible
these days. Bite it and invest in an extra drive. You can get 2 terabytes for 50 bucks.
 

Jack Winter

Jack Winter
Greasetrap42 said:
After unuinstalling and removing the launcher do a windows explorer search for "frontier" and delete all the stuff that the uninstaller didn't get rid of. There was quite a bit left over on my PC.
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Keep in mind that this will also remove your game logs and visited stars information, something you'd might wish you still had around if you come back to the game.
 

Navigare Necesse Est

Navigare Necesse Est
I do most of that stuff via Steam. Just click uninstall in the list. For ED I did a sweep through the folders - it had a habit to run multiple installs. Probably different clients different versions.
 

xzanfr

xzanfr
I'm not a programmer but if you start the game, then pull the plug out while it's loading it'll mess it up enough that you can just delete the folder.
 

Christopher Roberto

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CMDR X said:
Never, ever compress a drive to save space. For one, it drops drive performance in half.
For two, it makes data recovery twice as difficult. For three, it's not worth it. Most games
and media are already compressed to death and are not compressable any further.
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Many modern games load faster from compressed drives, especially from HDDs with slower transfer rates, because modern developers often neglect to compress their file formats. I'd say "most" but often encryption is preventing the uncompressed files from loading faster. It's better to compress selectively via folder compression on Windows, though.
 

rootsrat

Volunteer Moderator
rootsrat
aRJay said:
That was presumably from one of the betas.
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Correct. Leaving this intact will save a lot of time if there will be another beta, otherwise you'll need to download the WHOLE game again. If you leave it, it will just download the update (from old beta to new beta, which still might be a substantial size).

It does file comparison as the first step after you click update in the laucher.
 

Jack Winter

Jack Winter
Krash said:
I still play on my newer PC. I assume I haven't lost anything on there.
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You might have. The logs won't matter if you aren't interested or if you've already uploaded your data to EDDN. The visited stars information used to be possible to import on a new install, but that can't be done anymore as some people tried to exploit it. AFAIK, you've lost the history of what systems you have already visited, but that might also not be a problem unless you are an explorer and really care about stuff like that. I did the same a couple of years ago but to me personally it's just a bit annoying but not anything important.
 

Christopher Roberto

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Jack Winter said:
The visited stars information used to be possible to import on a new install, but that can't be done anymore as some people tried to exploit it. AFAIK, you've lost the history of what systems you have already visited, but that might also not be a problem unless you are an explorer and really care about stuff like that. I did the same a couple of years ago but to me personally it's just a bit annoying but not anything important.
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You can still import visited stars using third party tools as the file format of VisitedStarsCache.dat was so simple it could just be eyeballed, didn't even need reversed. I forget what tools have this feature but if you ask around someone will recommend their favorite.
 
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