First venture into graphics overclocking -- hoping for advice

[peterhayes]

Tom
Yes the maincontent.ap contains all the files and folders needed for that route.
You can delete any extracted files unless you have tweaked or changed them.
SSD's will perform at peak up to about 90% full (Windows needs 5 - 10% free for its own file purposes) - I tend to stick at 80% if I can.
A 256+GB drive is a good option for the future.
Regards
PH

[OldProf]

Tom
. . . You can delete any extracted files unless you have tweaked or changed them. . . .
Regards
PH

So anything other than the .ap file is deletable (I don't tweak)?

[peterhayes]

Tom
That is correct the "extracted" .ap files are exactly the same in both size and content to the compressed .ap file.
So if you have just extracted the ap file you can safely delete the extracted files.
One caveat, if you want a route to show up in Mike Simpson's RW Tools you would NOT delete the routeproperties.xml file, or you could extract it later again using RW_Tools.
pH

[OldProf]

Thanks to Peter's advice and help received I've succeeded in copying all of my current TS2015 installation (including Steam, of course) to a new portable SSD drive and have successfully run TS2015 from that drive by double-clicking Railworks.exe. By the way, I settled on a Samsung 250 GB SSD and have 129 GB of empty space after copying.

I avoided Steam's recommended method because I did not want to move everything to the new drive until I knew it would fit and run and wanted to have all 3rd party add-ons available as well as everything I've purchased or received from DTG over the years. Am I correct in thinking that when a files validation becomes necessary for the SSD installation, I just double-click Steam.exe on the SSD installation? Now that I've written it, that seems too easy.

Thanks for continued patience and assistance!