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Hi Guys,

 

Had a nice flight last night..

 

Came to open the program today, clicked icon to run as administrator and all it keeps doing is pointing and opening the microsoft store..

 

This is so frustrtating...can it just not open on the icon...at present I have lost my game..

 

Dave

Same thing happened to me earlier in the week.  It uninstalled itself on two separate computers.  Was unable to reinstall just go to black screen and crash.

Ended up buying on steam and that works.  Something fishy with the ms store.

Sean Green

1 hour ago, davenicoll said:

Hi Guys,

 

Had a nice flight last night..

 

Came to open the program today, clicked icon to run as administrator and all it keeps doing is pointing and opening the microsoft store..

 

This is so frustrtating...can it just not open on the icon...at present I have lost my game..

 

Dave

 

Make sure you are logged in in the Microsoft Store and Xbox app.

Alvega

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41 minutes ago, Alvega said:

 

Make sure you are logged in in the Microsoft Store and Xbox app.

Go to the online version of the MS Store and look there..

On my system, the Store app on my PC no longer had MSFS in my Library.

The online store did..

Bert

Question I can still get a refund from the MS Store, with the problems with the store it would it be better to purchase thru Steam?

 

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22 minutes ago, Shortcut99 said:

Question I can still get a refund from the MS Store, with the problems with the store it would it be better to purchase thru Steam?

 

right now, the steam version has less issues and is the safer bet

that may however change, no guarantee next month you will not find the MS version is fixed and the Steam one becomes broken

Steam and MS are both big money grabbing corporations and equally evil 😄

2 hours ago, Alvega said:

 

Make sure you are logged in in the Microsoft Store and Xbox app.

As well make sure both of those are the current versions, and that are up to date w/ Win 10 updates.  Sign out and then back in to all.  A related event happened to me a few days ago when Live Weather and Marketplace were grayed out.  Needed to log out and back in to MSFS, Xbox App and MS Store and all was restored.  I fear people do draconian things like uninstalling and reinstalling or God forbid, reinstalling Win 10! 

Edited by Noel

Noel

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I am on GamePass and it happen to me as well.   I'm just giving up on MSFS for now until things settle down a bit more.   Also, I'll be unsubscribing to GamePass as well so I will be buying it later on on Steam.  I like what I see but it still needs more time in the oven IMO.

  • 5 months later...

The game uninstalled on me today and I lost my community folder as well including mods and payware aircraft. Did you figure out why this happened and how to recover the files?

pffff , something is really wrong at their side if these things can happen.

game is supposed to work for newtime users too.....

Edited by wim123
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  • 4 months later...

My MSFS 2020 installation went missing today, just empty folder?

I am fearing a virus but see that other peoples installations are going missing too.

 

Charles.

This has happened to me as well. Did exhaustive virus scan: all clear. I had to re-install the whole 130+ GB from scratch. You will lose your custom camera views (and in my case my keyboard commands were screwy afterward as well). Took better part of a week to get the basics back. I am still cursing Microsoft. 😡

How the * than can happen is beyond me and not even remotely confidence inspiring. I enjoy MSFS immensely but if this happens again I will seriously consider turning my back on it. 

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