Another tool to organize your MSFS addons easily

[Bad_T 581]

kaosphere : i tried your suggestion with the size and hash only if the size matches, seems to work very well and fast, so i'll do that and it will show some text message instead of that not so useful placeholder image. Thank you for the idea. Now those icons visible when there's no image are also starting to bother me a bit, bah for the next version i won't change that (need to resist), i have already made quite a few changes and the risk of me breaking something is already getting bigger 🙃🙂🙃

andy : thank you very much for your nice comment, yeah hopefully this is only a temporary solution and sooner or later the sim will allow some kind of proper addons management. Thanks also for thinking about a donation really appreciated, but don't worry about that, it's my pleasure to do it without any kind of money involved, reading nice comments like yours is already more than enough.

 

Edited October 15, 2020 by Bad_T

[cercata 22]

Feature Request: Having several addon directories, so we can have addons on several drives

[Bad_T 581]

hello cercata, yes that sounds like a good idea, will probably not be in the next version that should be hopefully released this weekend, but, for the next one, i'll really try to add that. 👍

Edited October 16, 2020 by Bad_T

[cercata 22]

No rush, I'll need this only when I have many many GB of addons ... I was just thinking ahead 

Thanks so much 🙂

[Bad_T 581]

just for info, if someone is interested, the latest version has been uploaded to flightsim.to and it includes some of the requests that were made in this thread 😎

[Barnes 192]

51 minutes ago, Bad_T said:

just for info, if someone is interested, the latest version has been uploaded to flightsim.to and it includes some of the requests that were made in this thread 😎

Thank-you sir! Very interested.

[patrice_bambou 85]

Thank you Bad_T. This tool is very efficient for mods management.

Just a remark: Regarding the access to the folder corresponding to the mod pointed in the list, an aceess via a right-click menu would be far better than the action to go to the list header and click on the foilder icon (maybe the two would be implemented to offer a choice to the user)

Thanks.

Edited October 17, 2020 by patrice_bambou

[Kai-Uwe Wei 8]

Hi Bad_T,

thanks for your latest work, the tool will become better and better!

A short question: I tried the function-button of simstarting and I underlayed the path for its starting in the config-option: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.9.5.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\FlightSimulator.exe. But if I try to start the sim I am told that the path is incorrect. Maybe I put in something wrong; I guess we all have the same path?

 

Kai

Edited October 19, 2020 by Kai-Uwe Wei

[Bad_T 581]

hello Kai,

wow you won't believe this, i just loaded this page and was about to ask if someone could get the 'auto launch' working when using the store version or the DVD version. I have steam version so i can not test.

I probably have to adapt the code to run automatically the store version but since i can't reproduce i don't exactly know how to do it.

What you have written above is what is inside your shortcut i guess ? It also seems that this will change with every version because the version number is in the folder.

i will investigate a bit more, hopefully i'll find something.

**edit** : can you, or someone else, maybe try to put this in the options screen if you have the store version : shell:AppsFolder\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App

Edited October 19, 2020 by Bad_T

[Bad_T 581]

On 10/17/2020 at 5:57 PM, patrice_bambou said:

Just a remark: Regarding the access to the folder corresponding to the mod pointed in the list, an aceess via a right-click menu would be far better than the action to go to the list header and click on the foilder icon (maybe the two would be implemented to offer a choice to the user)

I missed your edit so i did not reply to your suggestion sorry, yes i can add that in the 'right-click' menu, no prob. It's also available directly in the column 'view folder'. By clicking on the 'open' link which will open the folder (even faster than right click menu). But i will certainly add it to the right click menu too.

Edited October 19, 2020 by Bad_T

[Kai-Uwe Wei 8]

Hi Bad_T,

the shell syntax works perfectly, thanks a lot!

 

Kai

[TheJAG 57]

Just noticed your tool is featured on MSFS Addons together with a tutorial video. Good stuff!

https://msfsaddons.com/2020/10/19/msfs-addons-linker-manage-you-ever-growing-addons-collection-with-this-free-tool/

Edited October 19, 2020 by TheJAG

[flytriman 22]

I can also confirm that the shell command works...however, I use the Fast Launch feature to launch MSFS and can't figure out a way to access it in your app....any ideas?

Garry

[kaosfere 3,115]

I just tried the latest version you have on flightsim.to;   am I imagining things, or is performance when (de)activating a large number of mods at the same time dramatically improved?

If so, nicely done!

[Bad_T 581]

TheJAG / flytriman : thanks for the info and feedback, flytriman i need to check for the 'fastlaunch', wasnt aware of that option until yesterday and i have steam version so it's a bit different.

kaosfere : yes i did some changes to improve performance, in the first version some 'refresh' were a bit chaotic 🙃

Edited October 20, 2020 by Bad_T