1 minute ago, 109Sqn said:

Interesting. Windows 10, yes?

Yup.. Windows 10.

2 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

Screenshot

Hmmm, maybe you have elevated privileges to show more info? I'm on Win10 Home and I'm the (only) Administrator. I'm not sure what I would alter to show the extra info you have access to there.

16 minutes ago, 109Sqn said:

Hmmm, maybe you have elevated privileges to show more info? I'm on Win10 Home and I'm the (only) Administrator. I'm not sure what I would alter to show the extra info you have access to there.

Sorry, no clue..  I have same setup as you do.. Not aware of any special settings..

Edited November 24, 20214 yr by Bert Pieke

There are several explanations of how to add or remove tabs in the properties window, such as this, but none make reference to Link Properties or Shortcut (which would also show me the Target). And I'm not about to mess with the registry without specific instructions for one of those tabs. Seems that having Pro or Enterprise editions of Win10 would make that process easier.

Just now, Bert Pieke said:

Sorry, no clue..  I have same setup as you do..

How weird. I can't recall ever seeing that tab on this PC. There surely must be a simpler way of activating it, but finding it is the problem. And that's not even a confirmed solution to my issue yet!

Thanks for all your help so far. Maybe we'll get to the bottom of this at some point soon.🙂

26 minutes ago, 109Sqn said:

How weird. I can't recall ever seeing that tab on this PC. There surely must be a simpler way of activating it, but finding it is the problem. And that's not even a confirmed solution to my issue yet!

Thanks for all your help so far. Maybe we'll get to the bottom of this at some point soon.🙂

I believe I have this installed:

 

https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html

Wow, that's even longer than my original post! 😄

I shall have a look at that tomorrow, thanks.

8 minutes ago, 109Sqn said:

Wow, that's even longer than my original post! 😄

I shall have a look at that tomorrow, thanks.

And a nice explanation

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

22 hours ago, Bert Pieke said:

I believe I have this installed:

 

https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html

I skimmed through that as my brain was just seeing "Rhubarb, Rhubarb, Rhubarb", just like Obelix in the Asterix stories(!), until I saw the right-click menu the same as your screenshot, so that was indeed what created it.

21 hours ago, Bert Pieke said:

And a nice explanation

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

👍

I can't see me needing it again in the foreseeable future so I have briefly installed it to get the right-click menu for this issue, and I'll uninstall it immediately after (created a restore point before installation, just in case). The upshot is...

 

Yes, C...LocalCache does indeed link to the G drive files.🙂 So it's looking pretty safe to delete the Official and Community folders on the E drive. First, I'll do what I suggested and delete a symbolic link from E...Community and hopefully confirm it still shows up in AddonsLinker and MSFS, thus confirming it's essentially a dead link. If so, I'll check a couple more the same way before deleting everything.

I'll report back...

Edited November 25, 20214 yr by 109Sqn
Typed wrong drive letters

1 hour ago, 109Sqn said:

Yes, C...LocalCache does indeed link to the G drive files.🙂 So it's looking pretty safe to delete the Official and Community folders on the C drive.

Better be careful!!

I would not delete ANYTHING on the C drive.

The Official and Community folders that you see on The C drive, are in fact the folders on your G drive.

Edited November 25, 20214 yr by Bert Pieke

1 hour ago, Bert Pieke said:

I would not delete ANYTHING on the C drive.

The Official and Community folders that you see on The C drive, are in fact the folders on your G drive.

My bad. I meant those folders on the E drive! The ones which appeared to be orphan entries. Post edited accordingly - it's the E drive files I will experiment with deleting.

33 minutes ago, 109Sqn said:

My bad. I meant those folders on the E drive! The ones which appeared to be orphan entries. Post edited accordingly - it's the E drive files I will experiment with deleting.

So this does not apply either, I hope..

Quote: First, I'll do what I suggested and delete a symbolic link from C...Community

19 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

So this does not apply either, I hope..

Quote: First, I'll do what I suggested and delete a symbolic link from C...Community

Correct, also now corrected in that post. So many letters!😁

First impressions: I looked for an entry which was in both E and G (freeware Edgley Optica) and deleted the (older) one in E. AddonsLinker didn't look for a refresh, as I hoped would be the case. Started MSFS (strangely got the Firewall prompt I always get after an update) and was still able to select the Optica. Successfully flew a short pattern, the only negative being the flight took a few minutes to load, which is rare these days. I've now managed to delete 45 items from E without AddonsLinker complaining. All of them had duplicates in G anyway so I expected no problems. I'll need to be more methodical from this point on as I changed my naming convention for add-ons after I installed AddonLinker, so it will take longer to check if there's an equivalent file in G.

But it's looking positive so far.😊

Well that's E Official and Community folders emptied to the Recycle Bin and both AddonsLinker and MSFS appear happy.🤗 I'll leave everything in the bin for a while till I'm sure all is well, but I expect it is. The only iddity I've noticed is the radio panel in the Livery 1 version of the Pipistrelle is pink, as in the livery isn't loaded correctly, but as it's the first (and probably last) time I've used that livery, I'm not bothered. Once I'm truly confident there are no other issues, I'll then maybe use the Apps setting in Windows to actually move MSFS to the E Drive where I actually want it to be, but not before I have a backup in the books!

Thanks Bert, for all your assistance!👍