I really don't like the Xbox Aviators Club liveries, and as I will neve use them (and they come to 1.5GB disk space), I tried to delete them from my Content Manager in the sim. This resulted in the sim hanging and I had to hard close it.

I therefore went into the "Official" folder and removed the liveries manually.

On launching MSFS, I then got a "Mandatory Update" of 1.5GB, which went ahead and reinstalled the XBox Aviators Club liveries!!!

Can it be right that having some additional liveries of circa 1.5GB disk space, are "mandatory" as part of the MSFS installation?

Just a thought (I haven't tried it myself)... when you tried to uninstall from Content Manager, did you try to uninstall the Aviator's Club livery package (which has them all bundled) or did you try to uninstall the individual liveries?  It might be worth trying both ways (package vs individual) to see if it behaves differently.

28 minutes ago, JYW said:

I really don't like the Xbox Aviators Club liveries, and as I will neve use them (and they come to 1.5GB disk space), I tried to delete them from my Content Manager in the sim. This resulted in the sim hanging and I had to hard close it.

I therefore went into the "Official" folder and removed the liveries manually.

On launching MSFS, I then got a "Mandatory Update" of 1.5GB, which went ahead and reinstalled the XBox Aviators Club liveries!!!

Can it be right that having some additional liveries of circa 1.5GB disk space, are "mandatory" as part of the MSFS installation?

Same experience here. They need to change the checksum for this content so we can delete.  I'll never use it either

Xbox Aviators Club liveries : please not a mandatory download - Community / General Discussion - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums

 

The enormous SU5 download has almost busted my 200GB cap this month, so yes, I’d appreciate mean and lean downloads without stuff that should be optional.

2 hours ago, JYW said:

I really don't like the Xbox Aviators Club liveries, and as I will neve use them (and they come to 1.5GB disk space), I tried to delete them from my Content Manager in the sim. This resulted in the sim hanging and I had to hard close it.

I therefore went into the "Official" folder and removed the liveries manually.

On launching MSFS, I then got a "Mandatory Update" of 1.5GB, which went ahead and reinstalled the XBox Aviators Club liveries!!!

Can it be right that having some additional liveries of circa 1.5GB disk space, are "mandatory" as part of the MSFS installation?

I was able to delete them through Content Manager, but initially I had the same hang as you when I selected them all.  I started doing them one or two at a time, and noticed each one takes a staggering amount of time to uninstall.  So far, they have stayed uninstalled through two hotfixes.

After the hang and kill, I was also forced into an update.  That didn't happen following the few by few deletion.  The kill must have corrupted the package so it had to be downloaded again.

Edited August 7, 20214 yr by flying_w

You need to delete them one by one from the Content Manager and it takes a while for each to go. They are really awful liveries and should be optional. 

but but ... if you do not have those liveries loaded, how are you going to know when XBox people in multiplayer are using them so you can give them a hard time about it ...

I’ve hidden a load of replies that have no relevance to the OP’s point.

Keep on topic please. If you can’t help, don’t post.

2 hours ago, 6297J said:

You need to delete them one by one from the Content Manager and it takes a while for each to go. They are really awful liveries and should be optional. 

That's the issue though is that they get redownloaded automatically again, did that not happen to you?

No, thx, I like XBox skins a lot ;D, but it may be an optional option.

 

Edited August 8, 20214 yr by YoYo

Reminds me of the weird fascination of people wearing huge branding logos on their clothes, walking around like a giant billboard advertisement. I never got it.

Why on earth would anyone want to fly a plane with Xbox branding written all over it?

10 minutes ago, steve310002 said:

Reminds me of the weird fascination of people wearing huge branding logos on their clothes, walking around like a giant billboard advertisement. I never got it.

Why on earth would anyone want to fly a plane with Xbox branding written all over it?

I guess you could equally ask that about the Red Bull DC-6 or the Breitling display team's aerobatic aeroplanes, or any number of other aeroplanes with logos on it and there are plenty of those kicking around.

7 minutes ago, Chock said:

I guess you could equally ask that about the Red Bull DC-6 or the Breitling display team's aerobatic aeroplanes, or any number of other aeroplanes with logos on it and there are plenty of those kicking around.

In that case I suspect they get paid for that .....

A.

1 hour ago, MarcG said:

That's the issue though is that they get redownloaded automatically again, did that not happen to you?

No, the first time I tried I thought MSFS had crashed as it took so long so I forcibly closed MSFS and opened it again. Then it downloaded them all again as I hadn't uninstalled them correctly. But when I removed them one by one and waited for them to finish then it didn't make me download them again. Same for the Aviators Club.