[BMWlad]

Is it possible/wise to share PSDZ data folders between ESYS and ISTA P?

Only reason is having two sets of the files feels like I'm wasting 50GB+ of hard drive.

[Hauer]

Possible. Symbolic link. Google it.

[delete]

Is it possible/wise to share PSDZ data folders between ESYS and ISTA P?

Only reason is having two sets of the files feels like I'm wasting 50GB+ of hard drive.

Don't know if it is wise, but it is possible if you work with Symlinks.

For creating a symlink
1. Delete Folder which should contain additional PSDZdata
1. Start CMD with elevated Adminrights.
2. execute 'mklink /D C:\PATHtoSYMLINK C:\PathtoPSDZdataFolder'

That is just an example. Of course you have different folders you have to copy. So you should also link every needed folder

[jerry_han77]

I'm using this cmd to create the symlink:
mklink /J c:\Data\psdzdata C:\ProgramData\BMW\ISPI\data\TRIC\ISTA-P\BMW\Services\data\ecudata\psdzdata

After this, E-Sys will always use same psdzdata as ista/p.

[emhtuning]

Mklink does the job just right , and btw you don't even need any special process, just put the full path of your ista p ecu data file in esys and everything works without any issue .

[Kenny]

Here we go - Try this

[georgia55]

This is easiest way

-Delete The psdzdata folder in c: / data
-in Win 8 or Win10 on Search Search CMD (the DOS box)
-Start Of CMD with administrator rights
-Eingeben of
mklink / D C: \ Data \ psdzdata C: \ Program Data \ BMW \ ISPI \ data \ TRIC \ ISTA-P \ BMW \ Services \ data \ ecudata \ psdzdata

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thank you

[Krysiaman]

I have to dig up this thread

Things are changed since 2016 and now fresh psdzdata is in ISTA+, not ISTA /P
I used mklink to ISTA-P like in posts above but I want to switch to Rheingold directory but there comes one question:
should I use psdzdata from data folder (BLP) or data_swi (SDP) ?

[SweetBMW]

Your should put Data swi

[atomantmk]

Delete folders C:\data\psdzdata and C:\data\SWE and run cmd as administrator type this:

MKLINK /d C:\data\psdzdata "C:\Rheingold\PSdZ\data_swi\psdzdata
MKLINK /d C:\data\SWE "C:\Rheingold\PSdZ\data_swi\psdzdata\swe

Now you can use E-Sys for software update too.