During start up the sim stopped on a page wanting me to redownload it and telling me I had insufficient drive space to accomplish this.

Being unable to resolve this i  found in the settings section the Microsoft flight simulator page available selection of defaults, terminate, reset, with sub headings of repair and reset, followed lastly by uninstall.

So I selected repair and it prompted me to to the entire 100+ gig download.

Sim starts fine now but does not see what is in the community  folder. Everything that was present before the issue is still present in the community folder.

Not sure how to proceed from here. Any suggestions would be gratefully received. Thanks.

1 hour ago, dbw1 said:

Sim starts fine now but does not see what is in the community  folder. Everything that was present before the issue is still present in the community folder.

My guess is your new installation of MSFS is in a different location (folder) from the one you were initially having trouble starting. Which means you also have a new Community folder location which is empty. Trick is to find your "new" location and move your "old" Community folder into it.

Last line of the text file "UserCfg.opt" has the location of your MSFS install. It's here:

"C:\Users\j<yourname>\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache"

replace <yourname> with your Windows login name.

Maybe it is time to simply delete the entire msfs installation saving the community folder elsewhere.

How does one do a complete uninstall of msfs?

Thanks