Brand new installation+Windows 10 . 4 hours and 12%. Unbelievable.

Miquel.

13 hours ago, udidwht said:

Stuck decompressing?? Try the following -

• Quit Flightsim (May need to force quit)
• Go to (installation folder)Official\OneStore and scroll to the bottom of the window, there are lots of folders in there but you will see the *.fspackage files that are ‘stuck decompressing’ there. Delete those.
• Run MSFS, it will re-download the package(s) again and should decompress all way through… Perhaps until the next package that might get stuck… Then repeat the steps again

Just bumping up this solution for people who haven't seen it. 
Worked for me.
I had to stop the sim from running with Task Manager between each.

Edited September 29, 20232 yr by Republic3D

Worth a try alright when you've been at it for hours as some folks were. I caved in and just left the thing running overnight, which worked out. But now I see posts about all the stuff that had updates in Content Manager and I only had four small ones. May have to do some digging.

I decided to take the dive after holding off yesterday.  I am about 90% downloaded in approximately 15 minutes so far.  No hiccups...fingers crossed 🙃

Maybe 40 minutes and no problems on first attempt.  I'm all up to date.  Hope others can get theirs up and running too.

Edited September 29, 20232 yr by Orlaam

2 hours ago, CWM99 said:

I am modifing another users post to include the Steam location as:

Go to
C:\Users\sam\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\Official\Steam
and scroll to the bottom of the window, there are lots of folders in there but you will see the *.fspackage files that are ‘stuck decompressing’ there. Delete those.
Run MSFS, it will re-download the package(s) again and should decompress all way through… Perhaps until the next package that might get stuck… Then repeat the steps again

This worked a few moments a go.

 

I can confirm that this works like a charm.  Got it all done last night during the worst of it in about 1/2 hour

11 hours ago, Falconfly said:

Just wanted to ask the community if it's better to buy the SIM off steam or MSFS?

MS Store

With this and the Rex clusterparp I think I'll be giving the Sim a wide berth for a little while longer, rather miss out than have to deal with this potential hell which takes away time from actual flying.

Edited September 29, 20232 yr by MarcG

8 hours ago, frankla said:

I see bunch of folders but no  batch file in Onestore. 

same problem here, so the suggested procedure did not work for me, no charm for me.

what I did and what worked was this:

my MSFS 2020 drive had some 20 GB left, so I thought it ought to be just enough since the required updates were only a few GB (eastern Europe POI and DC3) since I had most updates already from being in the beta. since reported free space on SSDs/NVMe drives can be misleading when the drive is nearly full, I removed other stuff unrelated to MSFS until I had 120 GB free again. also made sure the drive that holds the TEMP directory had plenty free space. and this time the remaining updates downloaded, worked like very charming.😁   

Edited September 29, 20232 yr by turbomax

What a difference a day makes. I already had the main update (because was in the beta).

But in content manager (DC-3) 400 MB took 11 hours yesterday.

Today a new update in content manager (BAE 146) 200 MB took 10 seconds.

It's hard for me to believe the servers could have been that much overloaded yesterday, but maybe they were?

11 hours vs. 10 seconds, wow.

19 hours ago, MarcG said:

With this and the Rex clusterparp I think I'll be giving the Sim a wide berth for a little while longer, rather miss out than have to deal with this potential hell which takes away time from actual flying.

OK against my better judgment I went ahead with the SU13 Update & Content Updates, no issues whatsoever, pretty quick download and no dramas so one of the lucky ones. (I have uninstalled Rex Accuseason and will await their update to the ORBX store next week)

Due to all the issues that were posted here, regarding the SU13, I waited until this morning to pull the trigger.

Premium/Deluxe (or whatever the top tier is labeled) purchased from the MS Store: 27 mins to download and install. That includes all the items in my Content Manager that needed to be installed and/or updated.

Rebooted the computer and took a quick flight in the Carenado C82R and everything worked fine and looked beautiful!

Regards,

Scott

Edited September 30, 20232 yr by ndflieger
Typo

Rather stupidly opted out of the SU13 beta and got the dreaded reinstall message (130GB update!). I let it run for 2hrs where it only installed 30% before I realised that it was installing to the default location and not my usual drive location, hence the claimed need for a reinstall.

So I've started again with the installer pointing to the correct location, 25GB update now required which is downloading at 2Mb/s on a 900Mbps connection...

I certainly don't think that I'll be flying this weekend at this rate.

Edited September 30, 20232 yr by G MIDY

On 9/29/2023 at 2:24 AM, udidwht said:

Stuck decompressing?? Try the following -

• Quit Flightsim (May need to force quit)
• Go to (installation folder)Official\OneStore and scroll to the bottom of the window, there are lots of folders in there but you will see the *.fspackage files that are ‘stuck decompressing’ there. Delete those.
• Run MSFS, it will re-download the package(s) again and should decompress all way through… Perhaps until the next package that might get stuck… Then repeat the steps again

Much faster, as suggested by another poster, is to delete all of the fspackage and fsbatch files, then restart the update. This gets the job done in a single step. For me, this worked like a charm, and fast.

Edited September 30, 20232 yr by cobalt