34 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

inimanger works fine for me, except on release day of big products.

Great!  I am genuinely glad for you.

2 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

Great!  I am genuinely glad for you.

Strange that experiences seems to vary so wildly though. I guess that I'm one of the lucky ones. Sounds like your experience has been more in the arduous/relentless/toilsome/Herculean/no picnic category 😵 

1 hour ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Strange that experiences seems to vary so wildly though. I guess that I'm one of the lucky ones. Sounds like your experience has been more in the arduous/relentless/toilsome/Herculean/no picnic category 😵 

It has been the story of MSFS and the associated products since day one really.  Individual experiences vary so wildly.  The IniManager is the only issue I have at the moment, so I'm not doing too bad. 

We have to accept a certain amount of hassle to contend with our hobby I suppose with things being so complex.  
There are also the other minor annoyances in the background, such as the tiling issues, the regressions, and the convoluted login / update process as you mentioned recently, but nothing is perfect, and it is counterbalanced by the excellent addons we do have, including free stuff like the LOD manager / Auto FPS etc.

There is such a lot to look forward to, but I am really apprehensive about Asobo stuffing things up during updates, and even how MSFS2024 will turn out.
Anyway, I hope IniBuilds get their act together with IniManager, as I really want their A350 when it is ready.

Edited March 20, 20242 yr by bobcat999

11 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

We have to accept a certain amount of hassle to contend with our hobby I suppose with things being so complex.  

Absolutely. Still remember the days of Ortho4XP…

it's now fixed.  i had to do two updates in a row for it to show the options.

3 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

Great!  I am genuinely glad for you.

I say that, and now it won't launch. I jinxed myself

Anyways

Edited March 20, 20242 yr by Tuskin38

yep  can confirm its  fixed  i deleted  it  from  my community folder  and  did   the  full install didn't  have  to do any  updates  at all

15 hours ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Agreed, Contrail wins this contest. And I’m looking forward to that day in the future (that we all know never comes) when we can install all addons using one manager…

It already exists and its called Marketplace.  

Edited March 21, 20242 yr by tyrodes
typo

Slightly embarrassing that they failed for the third or even fourth time with an update resulting in a different folder name. 

17 minutes ago, tyrodes said:

It already exists and its called Marketplace.  

There are by far not all addons available via marketplace. Besides the obvious disadvantages of marketplace addons...

10 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

I say that, and now it won't launch. I jinxed myself

Anyways

At least that one is fixable, so you should be all good to go after following the instructions.  
My update / download problems aren't easily fixable unfortunately.

Looking into it a bit deeper, it seems to be related to my 5G connection - the manager doesn't like it. 
But why IniManager doesn't like it and everything else is fine with it is a strange issue. 

So in my view they are the outlier - they need to fix this issue in the new version of the manager.
I really hope they do, as they will be making products I am interested in buying in the future.

1 hour ago, bobcat999 said:

But why IniManager doesn't like it and everything else is fine with it is a strange issue. 

Check your firewall settings for the iniManage app, perhaps?

Fairly easy with Windows firewall to mistakenly not accept connections for certain apps (well, for me anyway).

Edit: Did the app install correctly? No AV intervention that quarantined a file or several?

Edited March 21, 20242 yr by F737MAX

1 hour ago, F737MAX said:

Check your firewall settings for the iniManage app, perhaps?

Fairly easy with Windows firewall to mistakenly not accept connections for certain apps (well, for me anyway).

Edit: Did the app install correctly? No AV intervention that quarantined a file or several?

Thanks for trying to help.  The app is installed correctly and is always fully updated to every new version that comes out. 

And is fully functional up until I want to update a specific product.  Even then, it downloads to start with (I have had the A300 up to about 2.7 gig on the download bar, which shows there is no firewall issue), but then it starts jumping backwards in stages, sometimes back down to as low as low as a few hundred megabytes, and then ultimately the app just blinks out - it just crashes to desktop. 
Part downloaded items are in the IniBuilds cache, and I clear them after every event (as they suggest), but which also proves there is no firewall blocking them.

There are a few of us with the same issue.  I have tried it with Windows Firewall and ESET Security completely disabled (not that I like to), but still no joy. 
It is something quite specific to those of us with the issue, but like I say, everything else works.  Orbx, PMDG, Simmarket etc. 

MSFS and the updates and the marketplace are perfect (apart from the low speeds sometimes of course).

IniBuilds can't solve it (I have tried everything they suggest, including on the forum threads about the issue), so they tend to default to giving out direct download links on request to those with the issues.

I have wasted too many hours now, so I will wait for their version two of the app which is being completely re-written apparently.

Edited March 21, 20242 yr by bobcat999

I installed the update with no problems, however the VDGS docking system seems not to be working, the relevant file does exist. To be honest I have only made one flight so far so I might be a bit premature. As others have stated, if I go back into Inimannager it tells me that EGLL is not installed. It has always said that and now I ignore it!