March 17, 20242 yr Hi need your advice please. How to uninstall and reinstall MSFS without loosing my install add on. Or an easy way and avoid spending days to reinstall. Thank You
March 17, 20242 yr 3 hours ago, GeoSkyman said: Hi need your advice please. How to uninstall and reinstall MSFS without loosing my install add on. Or an easy way and avoid spending days to reinstall. Thank You I have my MSFS backed up on Steam. After uninstall, go to Restore Game Backup and the amount of data I needed to download is less than 15GB. Before reinstalling, back up the Community folder. Depending on the download speed, it usually takes less than a day. Edited March 17, 20242 yr by History DA B760M PRO4 | i5-13400F | RTX 3060 12 GB | G.Skills Ripjaws 32GB | MSI MAG A550BN | Ace Power 1 TB NVMe | Cooler Master Hyper 212
March 18, 20242 yr Store your add-ons in a folder outside MSFS and use addon-linker to select links to addons to be placed in Community. Uninstalling and reinstalling MSFS will have no effect on your add-ons, as they are not part of the MSFS program. It takes several hours to reinstall MSFS2020, longer if you reinstall all the scenery updates (these are optional). But no way does it take days! Edited March 18, 20242 yr by cobalt
March 18, 20242 yr If you want to avoid several hours, here is how I reinstall MSFS, worked every time for me: Copy the Official / Packages folder somewhere safe. (Or rename it temporarily) (This is the bulk of the data) Uninstall then re-install MSFS Copy the Official / Packages folder back to where you want it before starting MSFS Start MSFS, when it asks where the data folder should be, navigate back to where you put the Packages folder. MSFS won’t re-download any of the Packages folder. However, it will check for corrupt files and update it if it is out of date. To back up your flight time of all your aircraft, here is the folder: C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\SimObjects\Airplanes I found this advice online a while ago. Good luck Mick PC: Gigabyte X670 Aorus Elite, AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D, Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080 Super Aorus Master, DDR5 G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo 2X32 GB, Corsair HX 1000, Fractal Torrent, Samsung LC32 / G7 1440P.
March 18, 20242 yr Author 25 minutes ago, Micko said: If you want to avoid several hours, here is how I reinstall MSFS, worked every time for me: Copy the Official / Packages folder somewhere safe. (Or rename it temporarily) (This is the bulk of the data) Uninstall then re-install MSFS Copy the Official / Packages folder back to where you want it before starting MSFS Start MSFS, when it asks where the data folder should be, navigate back to where you put the Packages folder. MSFS won’t re-download any of the Packages folder. However, it will check for corrupt files and update it if it is out of date. To back up your flight time of all your aircraft, here is the folder: C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\SimObjects\Airplanes I found this advice online a while ago. Good luck Mick Thank you Mick, highly appreciated
March 18, 20242 yr Not a problem, Hope it help PC: Gigabyte X670 Aorus Elite, AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D, Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080 Super Aorus Master, DDR5 G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo 2X32 GB, Corsair HX 1000, Fractal Torrent, Samsung LC32 / G7 1440P.
March 18, 20242 yr If you use the Xbox app it does this for you essentially SAR Pilot. Flight Sim'ing since the beginning.
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