12 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

I finally got MSFS to start up, and it says that I have a large update. Anyone else see this. ? It says it is 30 GB. What hell is going on. 

Did you get back up and running?

I know how you feel. It's disconcerting when the sim does not load or pop up errors prevent us from enjoying our investment. We are at their mercy.

1 hour ago, DJJose said:

Did you get back up and running?

I know how you feel. It's disconcerting when the sim does not load or pop up errors prevent us from enjoying our investment. We are at their mercy.

I just started MSFS this morning and it still says I need a 30GB update. Don't know what to do...Guess I will just run the word not allowed update and see what happens. I asked this question on the official FS Forum last night, and after a few replies they locked the topic....

Edited May 7, 20224 yr by Bobsk8

18 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

I just started MSFS this morning and it still says I need a 30GB update. Don't know what to do...Guess I will just run the word not allowed update and see what happens. I asked this question on the official FS Forum last night, and after a few replies they locked the topic....

Maybe user error? Anything special you done to the install prior to this? Bit weird that it would randomly tell you to update when nothing has been released.

25 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

I just started MSFS this morning and it still says I need a 30GB update. Don't know what to do...Guess I will just run the word not allowed update and see what happens. I asked this question on the official FS Forum last night, and after a few replies they locked the topic....

Bob,

Before going ahead with that update (which is almost certainly an erroneous duplicate of SU9), I'd try logging out of the Xbox App and the MS Store, then logging back into both, and launching MSFS.

I've had constant notifications to update before (when I knew I was up to date), and that was the advice from MS Zendesk (and on this rare occasion, it actually worked).

Worth a try.

Edited May 7, 20224 yr by JYW

10 minutes ago, JYW said:

Bob,

Before going ahead with that update (which is almost certainly an erroneous duplicate of SU9), I'd try logging out of the Xbox App and the MS Store, then logging back into both, and launching MSFS.

I've had constant notifications to update before (when I knew I waas up to date), and that was the advice from MS Zendesk (and on this rare occasion, it actually worked).

Worth a try.

Well watching this stuff that is in the update which I am running now,  it looks like it is reinstalling all the things that I uninstalled a couple of weeks ago with content manager  that I never use like tutorials, aircraft liveries etc....

It looks like what Asobo does is it looks at the prrogram, and it sees default items that are missing, it reinstalls them. I remember steam used to do that with the railroad sim I had. 

Edited May 7, 20224 yr by Bobsk8

I have MSFS v 1.25.7.0 (4-26-22)

I started MSFS and it starts ok and loads my H145 helo flight at KRNT ok.

Edited May 7, 20224 yr by vonmar
added info

24 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

Well watching this stuff that is in the update which I am running now,  it looks like it is reinstalling all the things that I uninstalled a couple of weeks ago with content manager  that I never use like tutorials, aircraft liveries etc....

It looks like what Asobo does is it looks at the prrogram, and it sees default items that are missing, it reinstalls them. I remember steam used to do that with the railroad sim I had. 

Glad you figured it out. I was wondering if that w a s your issue as I was thinking of removing a bunch of stuff. Maybe not a good idea. Maybe others knowhow to make it stick.

12 minutes ago, FreeBird(Josh) said:

Glad you figured it out. I was wondering if that w a s your issue as I was thinking of removing a bunch of stuff. Maybe not a good idea. Maybe others knowhow to make it stick.

We had a discussion when I did this a couple of weeks ago, and a couple of people said they had done it to save space on their SSD, which was why I did it. I guess with all the sign on problems yesterday, it tripped the server into checking if the sim was complete, and then it wanted to reload all the missing content it saw as an update. 🙄

36 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

Well watching this stuff that is in the update which I am running now,  it looks like it is reinstalling all the things that I uninstalled a couple of weeks ago with content manager  that I never use like tutorials, aircraft liveries etc....

It looks like what Asobo does is it looks at the prrogram, and it sees default items that are missing, it reinstalls them. I remember steam used to do that with the railroad sim I had. 

Interesting. Normally if you uninstall correctly the server remembers and it will not prompt a re-install of deleted items from the content manager. If you delete the folders manually from the OneStore folder it prompts a re-install. I'm glad you got that sorted.

The one thing I have done is backed up all 188 GIG "OneStore" folder and zipped the Program Files, WindowsApps, WpSystem folders in order to successfully back them up.

I have MSFS 2020 in a separate drive so re-installing is much easier since everything is backed up, including a win 10 image just in case.

1 minute ago, DJJose said:

Interesting. Normally if you uninstall correctly the server remembers and it will not prompt a re-install of deleted items from the content manager. If you delete the folders manually from the OneStore folder it prompts a re-install. I'm glad you got that sorted.

The one thing I have done is backed up all 188 GIG "OneStore" folder and zipped the Program Files, WindowsApps, WpSystem folders in order to successfully back them up.

I have MSFS 2020 in a separate drive so re-installing is much easier since everything is backed up, including a win 10 image just in case.

Yes that is what I thought, and I did use the content manager.  I am now up to 20GB of the 32 GB download, and it is still installing aircraft I never use....

Edited May 7, 20224 yr by Bobsk8