Had a quick flight in the Fenix A320 last night to test out my new Winwings FCU panel. Worked great.

This morning ... MSFS can't "see" any of my "community" content: no Fenix, no PMDG, no scenery add-ons: nothing.

Any ideas? 

Not sure why this would happen out of the blue.  I assume that your community folder has not been emptied or deleted and that you have tried again after rebooting your PC.  Is MSFS starting in safe mode?

I can't remember offhand as I'm not on my PC, but I believe that one of the CFG files may have a pointer to your community folder, so worth checking those.

I'm assuming that the community folder or its contents have not been zipped/archived.

4 hours ago, cianpars said:

Not sure why this would happen out of the blue.  I assume that your community folder has not been emptied or deleted and that you have tried again after rebooting your PC.  Is MSFS starting in safe mode?

I can't remember offhand as I'm not on my PC, but I believe that one of the CFG files may have a pointer to your community folder, so worth checking those.

I'm assuming that the community folder or its contents have not been zipped/archived.

Thanks for your help. No, it's none of those things sadly. 

SOLUTION:

For anyone else in this situation, try:

1. Make sure MSFS is not running.

2. Open File explorer and locate your "Community" folder.

3. Right-click on the "Community" folder, drag it onto the desktop and choose "Move"

4. Start MSFS.

5. Shut down MSFS.

6. Back in File explorer, right-click on the "Community" folder on the desktop and "Move" it back to where it should be.

This seems to force MSFS to do some kind of re-scan.

Edited October 1, 20241 yr by tfm

Search for the file UserCfg.opt in MSFS folder and open it with Notepad. At the end you'll find this line

InstalledPackagesPath "C:\XXXXX"

put the correct path and save the file.

Good luck

6 hours ago, Celis said:

Search for the file UserCfg.opt in MSFS folder and open it with Notepad. At the end you'll find this line

InstalledPackagesPath "C:\XXXXX"

put the correct path and save the file.

Good luck

Thanks but no, it wasn't that old chestnut sadly 🙂

If you know some of the asset names in community, go to content manager in MSFS and type the name of one or more into the search bar in MSFS content manager. The assets should show up in the listings, and over on the right content manager will say Community. That means MSFS does see these assets in what MSFS considers to be your proper community folder.

 

Lets say you bought KSFO online 3rd party, not bought in the marketplace. If MSFS lists it when you type KSFO in content manager and it says "community", then: MSFS sees your KSFO and also MSFS is saying that KSFO is in the correct community folder.

 

1 hour ago, Fielder said:

If you know some of the asset names in community, go to content manager in MSFS and type the name of one or more into the search bar in MSFS content manager. The assets should show up in the listings, and over on the right content manager will say Community. That means MSFS does see these assets in what MSFS considers to be your proper community folder.

 

Thanks - I know! But this was a complete breakdown: none of the old tricks worked. The only "fix" was the one I eventually used (move Community folder, run MSFS, close MSFS, put back the Community folder, re-run MSFS, bingo!) 

1 hour ago, Fielder said:

Lets say you bought KSFO online 3rd party, not bought in the marketplace. If MSFS lists it when you type KSFO in content manager and it says "community", then: MSFS sees your KSFO and also MSFS is saying that KSFO is in the correct community folder.

 

Thanks for the suggestion but, no, none of the old tricks worked. This was a complete breakdown: fixed using the method I mentioned above 🙂