17 hours ago, Lorby_SI said:

the "Community" folder belongs into a location where it is readily accessible to everyone.

Just find the Community folder, right click on it, and choose send to desktop - create shortcut.  It will be on the desktop and is exactly like what you have in the default folder.  It doesn't change the default folder.

21 hours ago, Lorby_SI said:

the "Community" folder belongs into a location where it is readily accessible to everyone.

yes.

"Like "\Documents" for example."

no.

"\Documents" is normally on the Windows boot drive, normally at C:\Documents. not a good idea to place hundreds of gigabytes of data into the Windows drive, simply for backup and restore reasons of the boot partition C:\

I have MSFS at: D:\MSFS

Edited October 31, 20214 yr by turbomax

3 hours ago, Old_As_Dirt said:

Just find the Community folder, right click on it, and choose send to desktop - create shortcut.  It will be on the desktop and is exactly like what you have in the default folder.  It doesn't change the default folder.

Or use Addon Linker or my very own MSAO tool to move your addons elsewhere and link them back to the sim.

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"\Documents" is normally on the Windows boot drive, normally at C:\Documents. 

 \Documents is part of your user account. C:\Users\myusername\Documents, on Windows 10. Or anywhere else, should you decide to move it. But Windows is a multi-user system, so content from a specific user should be kept in the account that created it. Of course that doesn't really apply if you are the only one using that machine, but end user product development usually isn't about individual use cases. Personally I think that you should not throw hundreds of gigabytes of addons at a simulator, but that is probably just me.

55 minutes ago, turbomax said:

I have MSFS at: D:\MSFS

As a developer, you can't just assume that everybody has a second drive built into his computer. If you design a solution, it has to work for everyone first, with the option to do it differently if the user wishes.

My own addons folder is on a dedicated NVMe drive. And now all my development assets are too, after the unexpected loss upon an MSFS uninstall. In my world, having an uninstaller just wipe out stuff that doesn't belong to it is bad form. Not only because user content is supposed to be "sacred", but also because there can be assets in the mix with their own copy protection mechanism in place and only a limited number of allowed reinstalls.

For me personally, the reference implementation here is how Lockheed Martin did it with P3D. Even if many people didn't like it, it was well thought out, consistent and above all safe. You could safely uninstall the sim, install a new version and all addons were still there - if the system was used correctly of course. 

Edited October 31, 20214 yr by Lorby_SI

My install is via Steam, not in the default location and was not a beta tester, and it happen to me (85GB download).  But there is a caveat in my case, in that today was the first day in installed SU6. 

My guess is if I had installed SU6 before Asobo purged SU6 flight users (beta testers?), it may not have happened.  Either way I backups going back months so I didn't lose add-ons, but it's still a pain.

20 minutes ago, Lorby_SI said:

you can't just assume that everybody has a second drive built into his computer. 

I don't. one can easily partition a single drive into 2 separate partitions C:\ and D:\

"My own addons folder is on a dedicated NVMe drive"

which is recommended best practice and what most users do.

"In my world, having an uninstaller just wipe out stuff that doesn't belong to it is bad form.

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For me personally, the reference implementation here is how Lockheed Martin did it with P3D. "

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agreed.

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agreed.

again, were are talking here about the bad behavior of a beta version, which overwrites the Community folder only if users didn't follow the very instructions that came with the beta. if followed precisely, there were no such problems as reported here.

These were the "instructions" I saw:

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/su6-save-your-content-before-updating/462970

quote from: Jummivana - Senior Community Manager

Update: If you are getting a mandatory update in your sim today, October, 29th, we anticipate the following:

Console users: Xbox will recognize you already have the build and there should be no update.

PC users: You will have to re-update. If your content is in the default location, expect it to be wiped out and re-installed. If it is on a custom path, you will be able to point your update towards those files.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/sim-update-6-flight-live-come-here-for-updates/459829/6

Edited October 31, 20214 yr by turbomax