3 minutes ago, 109Sqn said:

You're right, how confusing!

It is confusing, indeed.. those two folders are actually one and the same folder on the G drive.

If you look on the C drive, you encounter a link at some point that moves you to the G drive, where your packages are located.

7 minutes ago, 109Sqn said:

Now to fire up the sim...🤞

Suspense!  It is so quiet here I can here the grandfather clock in the other room ticking........

Sim is taking a frustratingly, yet reassuringly long time to load, black screen with 50% progress bar for a few minutes now but I guess (hope) it's just that it's processing all the add-ons it's been ignoring the last few days...

1 minute ago, fppilot said:

Suspense!  It is so quiet here I can here the grandfather clock in the other room ticking........

Sorry, did you say something? I can't hear anything over the fans trying to make my PC lift off!😁

Just now, 109Sqn said:

Sorry, did you say something? I can't hear anything over the fans trying to make my PC lift off!😁

Just rooting for you!  I mean, really!  How convoluted can they make this? 

4 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

It is confusing, indeed.. those two folders are actually one and the same folder on the G drive.

If you look on the C drive, you encounter a link at some point that moves you to the G drive, where your packages are located.

I was beginning to suspect it was something like this, but I don't understand why you are doing it the way you are.

The way I did it was to simply

Open C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\UserCfg.opt

Change the path in the last line of this file, and move your installed packages (the folder containing the folders Community and Official and all their subfolders) to whatever drive you choose.

Just now, fppilot said:

Just rooting for you!  I mean, really!  How convoluted can they make this? 

Tell me about it! No, on second thoughts, don't - my head's been spinning enough over this one!😁

Still a black screen but the progress bar is approaching 90%...😱

3 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

Open C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\UserCfg.opt

Change the path in the last line of this file, and move your installed packages (the folder containing the folders Community and Official and all their subfolders) to whatever drive you choose.

First it is like making a below minimums IFR approach into an airport never before flown to that you never knew existed, with only hand drawn charts sketched out by another user!

Edited October 4, 20214 yr by fppilot

7 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

The way I did it was to simply

Open C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\UserCfg.opt

Change the path in the last line of this file, and move your installed packages (the folder containing the folders Community and Official and all their subfolders) to whatever drive you choose.

OK... that sounds straightforward, but you have to understand what you are doing..

Users who move only the Community folder are in trouble if they blindly follow this advice.

The OP actually has his folders on the G drive, not the C drive where it would appear they might be..

So please, careful with "simply" do this.. suggestions 😉

Edited October 4, 20214 yr by Bert Pieke

And I'm on the start screen...

Going to World Map...

And instead of 43 aircraft to choose from...

 

 

... I have 76!!!!!!!!!

 

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions and assistance, it looks like everything is A-OK. Even the suggestions which proveduseless in this particualr case may prove helpful  for others in the future. A good group effort all round, which is what makes this site a great community (excuse the pun!), even if we occasionally have the odd family "issues".😀👍

Just now, 109Sqn said:

A good group effort all round, which is what makes this site a great community (excuse the pun!), even if we occasionally have the odd family "issues".

I will not take the time to go back and count them, but there have been a number of suggestions tracked down over the months since release that appear to be about this or a very closely matched issue.  Each has been successful for at least some.  But my how distressfully complex can be allowed?  Ugly, Isn't it!

The only thing which still confuses me (well, the only thing I have yet to resolve - most of this thread has been confusing at one time or another!) is why Addons Linker and MSFS were communicating just fine for moths on end, with all add-ons showing up and then suddenly not talking.

The CTD..
 

10 minutes ago, fppilot said:

I will not take the time to go back and count them, but there have been a number of suggestions tracked down over the months since release that appear to be about this or a very closely matched issue.  Each has been successful for at least some.  But my how distressfully complex can be allowed?  Ugly, Isn't it!

One complicating factor is that you can choose to have MS install the sim on a dedicated drive at initial install, which it does by linking the folders to that drive.  Secondly, you can ask MS to "move the app" after initial install, which also is done via links.

All of this is fragile and subject to breakage (in my case after a systems restore)..

Lastly when a casual user looks at the folders in File Explorer there is no obvious way of knowing on which drive you end up..

So yes, this is well outside of anything we have dealt with in previous sims... including the XML files in P3D.. 😉

To me so far the only really confusing part is exactly how his folders wound up in such a state in the first place.

Right now, the current solution seems to be working, but feels slightly over-engineered, in that there are now two folders involved, one on the C drive and one on his chosen Drive.

Though I don't normally have those tendencies, that would almost certainly kick off my normally latent OCD genes eventually, and make me want to have only one folder involved, other than the ones created by the add-on Linker.