15 minutes ago, DAL1850 said:

Perhaps the autumn foliage update I added recently caused this. Still, to download the entire game to patch 2 xml files. I'm not sure my data bandwidth is going to tolerate this sim well. She's a beautiful sim, but silly details like this really get under the skin quickly.

EDIT: I think that's exactly what caused this. Just checked my vegitation folder and it's been "scrubbed". Le sigh. Do not want to be dealing with this noise every week.

Lesson learned!   I went through the same thing an update earlier...

DO NOT change any of the core files, period!  However minor the edit..

Instead install the Fall Colors update in the Community folder, and you will be spared the agony 😉

Jepp, learned it at the 4th Update, always change the trees high bei xml in the vegetation folder-only two numbers in the file and I got the "Full" Update.

After don´t touching any of this files, the Updates running only what they expect.

4 hours ago, Bert Pieke said:

Lesson learned!   I went through the same thing an update earlier...

DO NOT change any of the core files, period! 

Must be a sort of divine retribution.

Strange, since opening up MSFS today, I did not encounter any update message but my sim will no longer open. It moves past the developer intro screens and then just hangs with a spinning circle. I have no mods added to my sim.