17 minutes ago, fppilot said:

But Ed, with all due respect, it seemed you indicated you had over 300 in use.  At one time?  If not, and you use Addons Linker expediently, then you perhaps unknowingly led us astray about the number you stated you had in use.  If not, 300+ seems well over the top relative to one flight.

Yes, correct, that's the number I have normally in use at one time. No problems at all with that. You can use less if you want, of course. Also, nobody is telling you that you have to change your CF content before each flight.

But let's stay on topic. In my opinion, unless some add-on is causing a conflict, the CF has nothing to do with the seemingly forever going spinning circle in "Check For Updates" that happens often.

Edited July 7, 20214 yr by edpatino

1 hour ago, edpatino said:

But let's stay on topic. In my opinion, unless some add-on is causing a conflict, the CF has nothing to do with the seemingly forever going spinning circle in "Check For Updates" that happens often.

At still within one year of infancy and so many shortcomings, it just does not seem that it can be said that the scope of contents within the CF have nothing to do with it.  And there appear to be topics under discussion here that seem to confirm issues that might occur with a volume of CF content (or links).   

Please recognize the terms "seem", "appear", and "might".  Seems like three disclaimers, but instead they are offsets to observed statements that appear stated as conclusive.  There is still an open sky on these issues, and in that regard we may still be flying IFR.

Edited July 7, 20214 yr by fppilot

This worked for me (store version) when I had a CTD after an update had started. The attempted restart gave me a constant "checking for updates" screen:

Go to C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Packages\MicrosoftFlightSim...8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Official\OneStore

In the OneStore folder sort files by date and delete all those that were added on the date/time of the attempted update installation. Restart the simulator and the update should run smoothly.

Good luck

On 11/19/2021 at 9:23 PM, billdee said:

This worked for me (store version) when I had a CTD after an update had started. The attempted restart gave me a constant "checking for updates" screen:

Go to C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Packages\MicrosoftFlightSim...8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Official\OneStore

In the OneStore folder sort files by date and delete all those that were added on the date/time of the attempted update installation. Restart the simulator and the update should run smoothly.

Good luck

@billdee my computer crashed while downloading MSFS last night and I had the 'Checking for updates' loop this morning. After finding your post I tried it.

There was what looked like a partially downloaded .001 and .002.part file in \OneStore. I deleted those, started FS and still had the checking for updates problem.

Then I deleted the next two folders (sorted by most recently created) in the same folder, started the sim and it was no longer stuck and I'm downloading the remaining 70ish GB. Thanks for the help 👍

On 11/19/2021 at 3:23 PM, billdee said:

This worked for me (store version) when I had a CTD after an update had started. The attempted restart gave me a constant "checking for updates" screen:

Go to C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Packages\MicrosoftFlightSim...8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Official\OneStore

In the OneStore folder sort files by date and delete all those that were added on the date/time of the attempted update installation. Restart the simulator and the update should run smoothly.

Good luck

This worked for me. Thank you very much! I have the Steam version. Went into the Microsoft Flight simulator directory C:\users\…\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator and deleted all files added today. Bingo. Next time I started, it began the installation manager search for updates and promptly started the update from the beginning.