Does renaming a mod in the Community folder disable the mod, or do you have to remove the mod from the Community folder to disable it?

Thx,

Al

22 minutes ago, ark said:

Does renaming a mod in the Community folder disable the mod, or do you have to remove the mod from the Community folder to disable it?

You have to remove the mod from the Community folder to disable it. I like to rename mods and they work as usual.

Edited October 18, 20205 yr by OSM

10 minutes ago, OSM said:

You have to remove the mod from the Community folder to disable it. I like to rename mods and they work as usual.

OK, thanks. I'll create a subfolder in the Community folder for mods I want to disable.

Al

 

I believe the mod in the following thread will let you activate/deactivate mods without moving them (Disclaimer: I have not tried the mod)

 

Don’t rename payware though like ORBX because when you push an update the installer will create a duplicate folder.

Edited October 18, 20205 yr by sidfadc

You can also disable a mod by renaming the layout.json or manifest.json in its root folder to something else (ex. layout-disabled.json).

Really good info all -- thanks. I typically only have a small number of addons so it is convenient for me to just hide the ones I am not using in a subfolder of the Community folder, at least for now.

Al

I believe they will also load in descending sequence, first numerically then alphabetically.  The way the mods load may effect other mods 'downstream', so just be aware.

I have a Community and a "Community-NOT" folder. I simply slide the content that I want deactivated from Community to Community-Not. I also slide ALL content there during updates, then slide them back when the update is complete, allowing the update to be done with an empty Community folder. I am NOT saying this is a proper thing to do, but it seems to work for me

 

Edited October 18, 20205 yr by GACSavannah
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2 hours ago, Mike S KPDX said:

believe they will also load in descending sequence, first numerically then alphabetically.

Correct.  They load in basically the same order you see them in if you sort the community folder by name.

On 10/18/2020 at 2:15 PM, ark said:

OK, thanks. I'll create a subfolder in the Community folder for mods I want to disable.

Al

That won't work. Use the addon created by Bad_T (see below) which is great and does everything you are looking for.

 

1 hour ago, cobalt said:

 

1 hour ago, cobalt said:

OK, thanks. I'll create a subfolder in the Community folder for mods I want to disable.

Al

That won't work. Use the addon created by Bad_T (see below) which is great and does everything you are looking for.

Why doesn't using a subfolder work?  When I 'hide' the Working Title G3000 in a Community folder sub folder, I find I get the default G3000 when loading a flight.

However, will try the AddOn linker by Bad_T.

Thx,

Al

Edited October 20, 20205 yr by ark

1 hour ago, ark said:

Why doesn't using a subfolder work? 

I find that moving items to a separate folder is the foolproof way to go.

MSFS will try to load everything in Packages, and "fooling" it may lead to trouble..

Just create an MSFS Addons folder outside your MSFS structure, but on the same disk.

Then either manually drag folders in and out, or better, use the Addons Linker to create and manage shortcuts in the Community folder.  I currently have zero actual folders in the Community folder, only managed shortcuts and that makes things nice and tidy.

23 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

I find that moving items to a separate folder is the foolproof way to go.

MSFS will try to load everything in Packages, and "fooling" it may lead to trouble..

Just create an MSFS Addons folder outside your MSFS structure, but on the same disk.

Then either manually drag folders in and out, or better, use the Addons Linker to create and manage shortcuts in the Community folder.  I currently have zero actual folders in the Community folder, only managed shortcuts and that makes things nice and tidy.

I have now setup the Addon Linker as well. Do you leave the shortcuts in the Community folder during a MSFS update?

Thx,

Al

37 minutes ago, ark said:

Do you leave the shortcuts in the Community folder during a MSFS update?

Best practice is to not leave the shortcuts in the Community folder. The Addon linker makes it very easy to "unlink" everything.

...jim