I have just noticed that all of the airport addons that I have installed in the Community folder are not being displayed in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Is there anything that I need to do after installation to get them working? I should note that I have MSFS installed on my D:\ drive, but the relevant Community folder is actually located on the C:\ drive. The payware aircraft that I have installed there works perfectly fine, but the airports do not.

Can anyone help?

Could you give an example? Is that payware airports?

If you're talking about freeware (that you've extracted and placed manually), then save yourself a whole heap of trouble and try Addons Linker 😉

Edited December 3, 20232 yr by Adamski_NZ

Payware UK2000 airports are the ones that I have installed.

Check if what you have in 😄 is just a symbolic link to the actual/physical location of the Community folder (which may in fact be in D).

I cannot see any Community folder in the Microsoft Flight Simulator folder on the D:\ drive. There is another Packages folder there, but no Community folder within it. Anyway, if the payware plane works from the Community folder on the C:\ drive, then I would assume that the airports should also work.

EDIT: There is an MSFS/Community folder on the D:\ drive, and this seems to have the linked ORBx packages that I have installed in my ORBx Library folder on the C:\ drive. I wonder if I can just copy the UK2000 scenery packages across to this one?

Edited December 3, 20232 yr by Christopher Low

9 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

EDIT: There is an MSFS/Community folder on the D:\ drive, and this seems to have the linked ORBx packages that I have installed in my ORBx Library folder on the C:\ drive. I wonder if I can just copy the UK2000 scenery packages across to this one?

Absolutely - yes! Check how much space you have on D:\. If you're running short, then Addons Linker will allow you to place addons anywhere you like - a separate drive with more free space etc.

I have plenty of space on the D:\ drive. I moved my UK2000 airport addons across to the new folder, and they are now working properly

Just now, Christopher Low said:

I have plenty of space on the D:\ drive. I moved my UK2000 airport addons across to the new folder, and they are now working properly

Yay!! I do love a success story!! 🙂 🙂  🙂

14 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

I should note that I have MSFS installed on my D:\ drive, but the relevant Community folder is actually located on the C:\ drive. The payware aircraft that I have installed there works perfectly fine, but the airports do not.

You need to take a careful look at the two Community folders (C and D drive).

On my system, the one on the C drive actually links to my H drive.. so that it appears that folders are present on the C drive, that are not physically there.   However, since this is done via Windows links, it does not matter..  the content appears the same no matter where I look for it.   This screenshot from my C drive shows that several folders are actually links

 

What confuses me in your case, is that you seem to have different content in the C and D drive folders... that should only happen if you manually moved your "Packages" folder..

If in doubt, you can go to your Content Manager in MSFS and look to see what MSFS recognizes as being present in the Community folder.  It should tell you what is going on.

Edited December 3, 20232 yr by Bert Pieke

14 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

I should note that I have MSFS installed on my D:\ drive, but the relevant Community folder is actually located on the C:\ drive.

What does the last line of the UserCfg.opt file say (two levels up from your Community folder)?

Here is mine: InstalledPackagesPath "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages"

Edited December 3, 20232 yr by Bert Pieke

Did you also install the UK2000 Common Library ? It is needed for all UK2000 airports.

 

Never mind, just read you solved it  🙂

Edited December 4, 20232 yr by willy647