April 23, 20224 yr A bit of an ambiguous title, but recently I replaced my SSD and installed a clean copy of Windows 11 Home. I then re-installed P3D and all my add-ons (not move) to the same drive that Windows is installed (C:). Now, P3D no longer detects ActiveSky, SODE, FSDT's Addon Manager and so on. ChasePlane is the only addon that seemed to have properly put in an entry in the dll and exe xml. (Yes, I did install SimConnect, it did not make any difference) Looking at my documents folder, I noticed that this new installation of Windows 11 moved the Documents folder to C:\Users\<name>\OneDrive\Documents I did not find the Documents folder in C:\Users\<name>\Documents, which is where it used to be in Windows 10 and my previous installation of Windows 11, which was upgraded from Windows 10. My suspicion is that this change in Windows is now messing with the way P3D detects add-ons, since it's now in this "OneDrive" folder. I deleted this OneDrive folder and my desktop went blank. The documents Quick Access shortcut disappeared so it's my guess that Microsoft decided to move your personal files like the desktop, documents, videos, pictures, etc. into OneDrive. I reinstalled OneDrive then these directories were accessible. If anybody has any solution to this, I would appreciate it. Preferably from people who installed Windows 11 fresh and not upgraded from Windows 10, as my previous setup did not have this issue. Edited April 23, 20224 yr by arwasairl
April 24, 20224 yr 1 hour ago, arwasairl said: A bit of an ambiguous title, but recently I replaced my SSD and installed a clean copy of Windows 11 Home. I then re-installed P3D and all my add-ons (not move) to the same drive that Windows is installed (C:). Now, P3D no longer detects ActiveSky, SODE, FSDT's Addon Manager and so on. ChasePlane is the only addon that seemed to have properly put in an entry in the dll and exe xml. (Yes, I did install SimConnect, it did not make any difference) Looking at my documents folder, I noticed that this new installation of Windows 11 moved the Documents folder to C:\Users\<name>\OneDrive\Documents I did not find the Documents folder in C:\Users\<name>\Documents, which is where it used to be in Windows 10 and my previous installation of Windows 11, which was upgraded from Windows 10. My suspicion is that this change in Windows is now messing with the way P3D detects add-ons, since it's now in this "OneDrive" folder. I deleted this OneDrive folder and my desktop went blank. The documents Quick Access shortcut disappeared so it's my guess that Microsoft decided to move your personal files like the desktop, documents, videos, pictures, etc. into OneDrive. I reinstalled OneDrive then these directories were accessible. If anybody has any solution to this, I would appreciate it. Preferably from people who installed Windows 11 fresh and not upgraded from Windows 10, as my previous setup did not have this issue. Yes windows 11 creates the documents folder in onedrive as you mention. Onedrive however is aggressive at backing up the folder interfering with the folders/files in it and no way i know of to schedule it (maybe is). If you dont have to use it On the fresh install choose offline backup or whatever the blue writing is at the top and it leaves out the onedrive part in documents. Edited April 24, 20224 yr by 40track
April 24, 20224 yr This seems to be one way of getting rid of it:(19) Windows 10 - How To Disable OneDrive and Remove it From File Explorer on Windows 10 - YouTube
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