In stead of implementing such a feature directly in FV, we can simply use a build-in Windows feature called "Symbolic Links" (or just "symlinks").
It would be easy to implement an entry field in the settings form for specifying this folder path, however doing so I would need to implement a function to move all the data (while the program was running), and also I would need to make the installation program aware of this new path, so when updating FV it would install the new/updated flight-plans into this new folder, in stead of using the the default data folder. While developing FV I designed it so I could at a later point quickly change the path to utilize another drive/folder, however I never implemented a way for you to change this path in the GUI. Some of you might have a computer with either a small C-drive, or a C-drive that over the years have been filed to the point where you would like to free some space by moving the data-files of Flightplan Visualizer (FV) to another harddrive. I had the same issue myself with DCS (Digital Combat Simulator), where I was able to release +200 GB on my C-Drive, simply by moving my entire DCS installation from my C-drive to another drive and executing a single/simple CMD-command (didn't have to change/update any path/settings afterwards). This tip is not only for FV, but can be used for other programs as well. Most of these data-files does not take up that much harddisk-space, however the cached map-tiles can easily take 1-2 GB of space.
If you have enough free space on your C-drive, then there is no need to read this post, as it is aimed at those who need/want -to free the space occupied by Flightplan Visualizers (FV) data-files on the C-drive.
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