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Small update to WU8 in Content Manager

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Just release about an hour ago - available as a 2GB update in Content Manager.

From the official forum:

We just released an update to WU8 to the Content Manager that removes some duplicated files. Installing the update will free up approximately 5GB of space.

There are no changes to the World Update itself.

 

5GB! That’s a lot of duplicate or redundant files. Wonder if that solves the double windsock and other scenery issues some have reported here.

GregH

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6 hours ago, DylanM said:

Just release about an hour ago - available as a 2GB update in Content Manager.

From the official forum:

We just released an update to WU8 to the Content Manager that removes some duplicated files. Installing the update will free up approximately 5GB of space.

There are no changes to the World Update itself.

 

Could you pls post the link?. Thanks

Cheers, Ed

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Seems the recent update only removed half of the offending files.  

More discussion from a different source:   World Update 8 Bloatware

Regards, Kendall

 

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Thanks for the heads up Dylan .

 

 

 

 

 

I wonder, why it takes 2.6 GB to free up 5 GB? Instead of deleting the unnecessary stuff, this probably just deletes everything an "reinstalls" the needed stuff again. Took forever on my side with 3.5MB/s max DL speed...

Greetings, Chris

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48 minutes ago, AnkH said:

I wonder, why it takes 2.6 GB to free up 5 GB? Instead of deleting the unnecessary stuff, this probably just deletes everything an "reinstalls" the needed stuff again. Took forever on my side with 3.5MB/s max DL speed...

It doesn't make any sense to me either and, as mentioned before, it seems that another WU8 update will come out sooner than later to completely cure the duplications

Edited by edpatino

Cheers, Ed

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I just opened the program, went to Content Manager, and there was nothing new there.

James David Walley

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Hi,

I've just installed the patch.

Before that I had 273 GB free in my 500 GB SSD disk, after this last update I have 278 GB free. I hope it is ok now.

Regards.

 

 

2 hours ago, JDWalley said:

I just opened the program, went to Content Manager, and there was nothing new there.

Content Manager. On the left side click box "update available" and there is no update there?

I see one and I'm downloading now.

Just finished downloading and it freed up 5 GIG.

Edited by DJJose

MSFS

It saved me about 4.4 GB .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Those 4,4 - 5,0 GB are not a big deal unless you're really short of disk space in your MSFS drive. As mentioned in the post at FSDevelopers.com, these files are never called/read by the sim, they're just taking disk space, so even if it's not the best tech solution, you can leave them there.

And, more importantly, the WU8 patch is still incomplete, in the sense that there are still unnecessary files inside the new airport folders (LECO, LESU and the other two) that were not corrected by the patch (so, maybe it'll be another one?).

 

Cheers, Ed

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Even with the update I still see double windsocks at LPPI. Anyone else?

Can this be fixed? I'll start a new thread.

MSFS

27 minutes ago, DJJose said:

Even with the update I still see double windsocks at LPPI. Anyone else?

Can this be fixed? I'll start a new thread.

Oops 😞

I had just posted at another thread about double windsocks that maybe the short fix had fixed it... 

Edited by jcomm

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