33 minutes ago, Bad_T said:

Have you tried setting the program to 'run as admin' (right click on the EXE and then in the 'compatibility' tab there is checkebox called 'run this program as administrator'.

Thank you for your very quick replies. Sorry, I remember now the last time I tried to use this programme I kept forgetting to start as administrator and that was the problem this time as well. I wish there was a way for it to remember to always run as administrator. 

I had this problem today with another file from flightsim.to.

My Defender delete this file, don´t know why 

Another oddity since last version.

Here you can see that the folder "Fall" remains red after being checked AND doesn't appear in the Community folder.

Hope it helps and a warm thanks, again and again, for your brilliant work.
👍

Edited December 6, 20205 yr by David Roch

@Espana Pete thanks for the feedback, normally the program should warn you if it's not started in admin mode (unless you checked the 'disable run as admin warning' in the options screen.).

@sal9000 weird, looks like BD is suddenly not liking MSFS tools !! 👀 .. now, for info, some tools (even free) add compression/encryption/security layers to prevent 'pirating' .. sometimes that can cause AV to find them malicious, but my tool for example does nothing of that.

@David Roch oops did not notice your message, will read it now

Edited December 6, 20205 yr by Bad_T

@David Roch ... it's strange, i just tried the mod and all seem ok on my end so it's not specific to the mod.

Can you maybe enable temporarly the log in the options screen (2nd tab), then restart the app, try to create that link. If it fails it should write something in the c:\programdata\msfs addons linker\log.txt file. Can you check if there's something in there and, if yes, please send it to me.

I assume that if you create links for other addons it works ? (if all fail it's probably that 'admin' right thing again).

if nothing appears in the log, i might need to send you a special debug version to try to find out what's happening, let me know thank you..

Edited December 6, 20205 yr by Bad_T

Yes, it was the old "admin right" thing again! 😄
Thanks, working like a charm now!

oh hehe cool, thanks for the feedback 👍 ... probably when you update to a new version, the EXE is different and the setting 'run as admin' is lost in Windows so you have to set it again. If you had checked the 'disable run as warning warning' in the options screen you are not warned of that possible problem. Maybe i should remove that option to avoid possible problems.

** edit .. btw if you had enabled the log, disable it so that it doesn't slow things down **

Edited December 6, 20205 yr by Bad_T

Sorry I can't search this entire thread so apologies if already covered but I'm not gonna wade through 25 pages!

Firstly many thanks for this tool it looks like it can be excellent, but:

I've setup the options as per the directions, I have my Apps ticked in the left Addons Screen but they remain Red (dot) and I cannot figure out how to "Activate" them. The readme file says "just click on the checkbox to activate/deactivate addons", I've done that but nothing happens.
I have MSF installed via Steam and my community folder is here:
C:\Users\marcg\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\Community

I've Right-Clicked and selected Enable All Addons but still nothing happens.

Is it a problem with Permissions/Sharing or something? Any help greatly appreciated 🙂
Thanks

Edited December 6, 20205 yr by MarcG

@MarcG, please try to enable the log in the options screen like explained a 3 or 4 posts up. Make sure you run the tool as admin if you didn't already as this is the most common cause of non working links. Send me then the result of the log. thank you.

also please try with only 1 addon first just to make sure the simpliest case works.

Edited December 6, 20205 yr by Bad_T

1 hour ago, Espana Pete said:

I wish there was a way for it to remember to always run as administrator. 

This is a standard Windows feature, right click the shortcut you use to start the program, select properties and then advanced, the option is there.

ah yeah doing it in the shortcut (and not on the exe) might help keeping the setting forever even when you update to a new EXE, thank you @peroni

8 minutes ago, Bad_T said:

@MarcG, please try to enable the log in the options screen like explained a 3 or 4 posts up. Make sure you run the tool as admin if you didn't already as this is the most common cause of non working links. Send me then the result of the log. thank you.

also please try with only 1 addon first just to make sure the simpliest case works.

aahh ok it was that simple, apologies I misread the readme.txt ☺️ all working now many thanks

👍 cool if it works now, thanks for the feedback !

2 hours ago, peroni said:

This is a standard Windows feature, right click the shortcut you use to start the program, select properties and then advanced, the option is there.

Thanks Peroni, I have never had to set a programme like this before so was not aware of the option.

4 hours ago, Bad_T said:

@Espana Pete thanks for the feedback, normally the program should warn you if it's not started in admin mode (unless you checked the 'disable run as admin warning' in the options screen.).

Thank you for your speedy responses and great programme, all sorted now.