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August 15, 20214 yr Author 2 hours ago, JYW said: Yes, essentially, you begin by setting up a folder on your PC (I have it on the desktop).... call it anything you want.... I call my "MSFS Addons", then move all the content of your Community folder into that new folder. (So, Community folder is now empty). When you first launch the Addons Linker it will ask you where your content is, and you browse to that new folder you've set up. Then, to use Addons Linker simply use the click button dialogue screen on the left to select or deselect addons that you want to have installed in MSFS. Set up a profile by clicking the New Profile button and then save your new profile. Et voila.... Addons Linker places shortcuts into the Community folder, for the addons you have selected. You can have multiple profiles; eg.... a one that uses a specific plane and it's mods, a one for airliners, etc, etc, .... personally, I just use one profile called "Current" and I select or deselect the addons that I want to use in a given session in MSFS and then press the button in the very far right bottom of the dialogue screen. This updates my "Current" profile, so that only the selected addons will be 'placed' into the Community folder. The main benefit of Addons Linker is the fast and convenient ability to choose what is active in the Community folder. It's great for CTDs as, literally in a couple of clicks you can deselect suspect addons, update and BAM..... that's your Community folder changed, without having to physically move any files in and out of the Community folder. It's not really about disk space saving, although that could be a side benefit. For me, it's an absolute essential. Eg. Yesterday, I wanted to fly in Australia in the G36 Turbo mod. So, I deselect all other mods, and simply select my Australia addon airports, along with the G36 Turbo mod. Click update and then, those will be the only mods active in the Community folder = I am far less likely to get CTDs caused by other content, not relevent to the flight I'm doing. Bear in mind that my description of the utility above, makes it sound 50000% more complicated to use, that it is in reality! Thanks JYW! Working with it...over the last couple of flights...certainly has great user benefits. You all are most right! Cheers.
August 16, 20214 yr On 8/14/2021 at 7:30 AM, Twenty6 said: And all your addons are already backed up in their original location just waiting to be relinked into the Community folder either individually or all 135GB nota bene: Addons Linker doesn't back anything up. It always works with the copy of the mod in your source directory -- even when you have something activated it just points the sim at the "real" location for it. Should that data get corrupted, there is not another copy to recover from. Always keep backups of data you would not want to lose on a separate drive (and ideally, system). Personally, in addition to nightly backups of my flight sim drive (along with every other disk in my system) I have an archival drive where I keep the pristine downloads perpetually so I can reinstall from them if necessary. And that's backed up, too.
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