Need some help with Elite Dangerous' use of disk space

[Chri5topher]

After installing Odyssey I am running really low on my C: drive disk space and need to free some up.
I no longer play the base game of Elite Dangerous, only Horizons and now Odyssey.

My AppData\local\Frontier_Developments directory takes up 118GB. That is nearly half of my 250GB SSD !!

Can I select Elite Dangerous from the Launcher then go to Options and select "Uninstall game". Will that just remove the older Elite Dangerous files and leave the Horizons and Odyssey files alone ?

I also played the Alpha of Odyssey. Are there files from that I can delete, and if so, where are they ?

Any help appreciated and apologies if this has already been asked/answered.

Cheers,
Chris

 

[Kris]

I also played the Alpha of Odyssey. Are there files from that I can delete, and if so, where are they ?

I just deleted my Alpha folder, freed more than 50 GB that way. Don't remember directory name, something called TEST SERVER or something similar.

 

[Scoob]

While I have ED on a separate partition, I noticed that during the install it almost filled up my C: drive - which is only 75 GB and just holds Window and a few other bits. it's usually never more than half full, but this install filled it up. The install did not free up this space for some time - I even got a low disk space warning from Windows during the install. Eventually however, Windows (or the Launcher) did free up a load of space, taking me back down to expected levels.

Edit: deleting those other folders mentioned above will also help, I have them too and was planning to move them (then check that everything still worked) but I've not gotten to it yet - have plenty of space on D: - my Game partition - so it wasn't urgent.

Scoob.

 

[Chri5topher]

Same here, I got the Windows low disk space warning during the install of Odyssey. I had 3GB to spare when it finished.

 

[Chri5topher]

I just deleted my Alpha folder, freed more than 50 GB that way. Don't remember directory name, something called TEST SERVER or something similar.

Kris: This one ?

 

[Kris]

btw this reddit post directed me to delete it

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/ngu34s

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/ngu34s/commanders_did_you_play_alpha_of_elitedangerous/


I think my Odyssey Alpha folder was not exactly same name, but something similar.

 

[Chri5topher]

Well, that's a start. Will delete the Alpha files

 

[Kris]

Kris: This one ?

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Should be. I think 29 March was start of the Alpha. You should have separate Odyssey folder, don't delete that one

 

[Chri5topher]

Alpha files deleted, thank you. There doesn't seem to be a separate Horizons directory so I'm assuming that it's contained within the Elite Dangerous files. Think I'll leave that alone for now. 45 GB is a good start. Cheers.