1 hour ago, cianpars said:

 Mandatory update today

There isn't any update today.

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(is there?)   I haven't seen any update.  Have you not booted up your sim since last week?

i think MS forced the beta emoval.

I too, wasn't careful when exiting the beta. Fortunately, I ended up with 2 installations and the fix was a simple deletion.

Also no update today on my side...i also was into the beta and opted out.

What was important: 

Be sure to point to the MAIN MSFS FOLDER. In my case it said i have to download 115 GB (= the whole Sim), then i changed from the DEFAULT FOLDER to my MAIN MSFS FOLDER and the update was ready within 15 minutes. 

Greets,

Markus

It was clearly stated by MS/Asobo that if you opted in beta and had the community folder in its default path, then you might end up installing the whole sim. I opted in the beta however in my case during the initial install, I decided to select an alternative path for my community folder, so this beta in-out process did not affect my installation in anyway.

25 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

I am so glad I stayed away from the beta. It sounded like an accident going someplace to happen when I first heard about it. 

I recall posts here a month ago along these lines:   "No reason not to try out the beta.." 😉

3 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

I recall posts here a month ago along these lines:   "No reason not to try out the beta.." 😉

I had too many to count suggestions from Beta promoters, when I complained that my Track IR was broken, saying " why don't you just install  the beta??" . I stood my ground, and figured I would wait until the beta was officially  released, and it turned out to be a great decision. 

7 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

I recall posts here a month ago along these lines:   "No reason not to try out the beta.." 😉

 

1 minute ago, Bobsk8 said:

I had too many to count suggestions from Beta promoters, when I complained that my Track IR was broken, saying " why don't you just install  the beta??" . I stood my ground, and figured I would wait until the beta was officially  released, and it turned out to be a great decision. 

 

Well, although I salute your wisdom, the point is, these install problems, whether you are on the beta or not, just shouldn't be happening.

There can be a tendency to blame the victim, but in the case of the install and update process, whether it is for a beta or 'normal' update, the fault lies with just one party, and it just rumbles on and on - it's slack.

 

2 hours ago, cianpars said:

Now have a 1 TB empty drive.  Mandatory update today completely deleted msfs and 150 of my addons 

People having the same issue on the main site.  Seems to have something to do with installing the beta update. There was apparently a warning that a lot of us did not get.

The servers are really going to be caned tonight and I'm going to have to spend weeks resetting everything and rebuilding my community folder.

Thanks Microsoft !

I read you supposed to be out before 1/13, or they would automatically remove beta? Maybe you cut it too close...

Yea let's not do the whole" it's your own fault nah nah na boo boo I told you so" to our beta testers.

They were willing and helpful testing and getting that patch out as guinea pigs for the rest of us to enjoy.

Sorry for the issues and THANK YOU for volunteering to beta test.

Edited January 13, 20224 yr by blueshark747

I was into the beta and opted out with Steam, very easy to do, and I haven't had any problems at all, is this a specific problem that only happens with MS Store version (as usual)?

I was thinking it was something I did, now I'm glad I checked here also.   In the process of rebuilding again.

Duane

I was thinking I was a bit paranoid putting all my community files else where with addon linker and disabling the links to them during updates, but seems like it is a actually good idea after all.

Edited January 13, 20224 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

This is completely utterly ridiculous. Not only can I not fly tonight, now I have to go back to using a broken TrackIR.

I'm done with this garbage, I'm going back to P3D.

Goodluck.

MS responded to this on the official forums effectively saying 'you were warned'. They "carefully" told us 3 separate times that this was a real possibility, however none of those prefaced the final release. Really awful roll out (again big surprise). Pretty disappointing they have and are not improving these installs, especially with all of our collective 'beta testing' help for free....