Hi,
I have been using your program for quite a while now with 3 simulators - XP11, P3Dv3 and P3Dv5. Now I have decided to add the new MSFS2020 into my sim collection but since I don't have any free space on my laptop, I decided to install it to my removable hard drive.
Now comes the issue - in LNM it is not recognized when trying to load the sceneries - there are only 3 options (sims mentioned above). Connecting to MSFS2020 works fine.
I have tried to find a solution but internet was no help. How does LNM recognize if the game is installed? Some people said MSFS2020 doesn't have any register entries - I have tried looking in the registry and well, I didn't find anything.
So, once again, how does LNM recognize if the game is installed?
Is there anything I could do?

Thank you very much for your time.

Dominik

Hi Dominik,

LNM looks into the usual fixed installation folders for the various MSFS installation options (Steam, etc.). There are no registry entries. Installation on a removable drive is no problem.

LNM first looks for a file "UserCfg.opt" at the following fixed locations:
MS online installation: "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\UserCfg.opt"
Steam installation: "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\UserCfg.opt"
MS Boxed installation: "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\MSFSPackages\UserCfg.opt"

The text file "UserCfg.opt" contains a last line "InstalledPackagesPath" which points to the MSFS scenery library. This should point to your removable drive.

From there I look up "...\Official\Steam\fs-base\layout.json" or "...\Official\OneStore\fs-base\layout.json" to check if the path is really valid or if it consists only of remains of a previous installation.

Maybe the path in the "UserCfg.opt" is broken in your case.

Alex

 

Hi Alex,

I looked into the "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\UserCfg.opt" as you said and found the file, the last line is: InstalledPackagesPath "F:\Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator\HLM_Packages" which is a correct location. I went to the \Official\Steam\fs-base\layout.json and the file is present there exactly as expected.

Now I have no idea why LNM doesn't register it.

Anything I could do?

Thanks,

Dominik

9 minutes ago, DomiMili said:

Anything I could do?

Start LNM quit LNM and then send me the log file which can be found here: C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp\abarthel-little_navmap.log
Contact is here: https://albar965.github.io/contact.html

MSFS recognition is normally quite reliable. Do you use symbolic links or Windows ".lnk" link files somewhere in the path?
Maybe LNM does not have permissions to read the path. You can check this by running it *temporarily* as admin.

Alex

Good, sent it to [email protected] hope that works.
Thank you
Dominik

Thanks for the log file. Got it.

Cannot open "C:\Users\domin\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\UserCfg.opt" error "The system cannot find the path specified."

I suppose you have a normal installation from the MS Store (not Steam and not boxed). Does the file exist and is it readable for LNM? I suspect a permission issue. Try to run LNM as admin once.

Alex

No, I have a Steam installation.

But I tried to put the UserCfg.opt in the path you specified just to see if it will work, run as Admin, still nothing.

Dominik

I see. LNM tries the MS installation first and prints these messages. In this case it is ok. I do not log anything in case paths are found. No need to copy the file to another location.

[2022-08-11 14:54:00.017 WARN ]: QString atools::checkFileMsg(const QFileInfo&, int) File "F:/Games/Microsoft Flight Simulator/HLM_Packages/Official/OneStore/fs-base/layout.json" does not exist
[2022-08-11 14:54:00.017 WARN ]: QString atools::checkDirMsg(const QFileInfo&, int) Directory "F:/Games/Microsoft Flight Simulator/HLM_Packages/Community" does not exist

Why the strange path "HLM_Packages"? This is normally just "Packages". This is where the recognition in LNM breaks. Never seen this before. Is this a scenery organizer?
You can fix this by creating a symbolic link from "Packages" to "HLM_Packages".

Alex

I do not know why is the folder called "HLM_Packages" but folder "Packages" is present aswell. 

Could you describe further how to make this symbolic link?
 

Thank you
 

Dominik

Actually, it somehow fixed itself. It's either because I turned on the sim and tried during or because I created a Community folder. In any case it works now I think.
Thanks for your help.
Dominik

Hmmm. I probably have to ignore the community folder since it might be missing on fresh installations.

Anyway, glad it's working🙃