That means you tried to access your library from the aircraft selection menu. This only works from the main menu, just like the message says. Only Asobo knows why they programmed it this way. I find it odd.

Edited April 2Apr 2 by Farlis

This is the path statement that is shown

appdata/local/packages/microsoft.limitless..weird number/localcache/packages

Edited April 2Apr 2 by Mike_CFII_MEL

13 minutes ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

This is the path statement that is shown

appdata/local/packages/microsoft.limitless..weird number/localcache/packages

Yes, that is the default location. It is best practice to change this to a custom folder of one's own choosing to make accessing it easier, like I described in one of my previous posts. But this should only be done BEFORE installing any 3rd Party software. Because if you change it now, the sim will not see what you have already installed.

 

But should you ever think of doing a full re-install of the sim and your add ons, this would be the first step after installing the sim.

 

All that being said: Did the reinstallation of the 737 yield positive results?

Edited April 2Apr 2 by Farlis

3 minutes ago, Farlis said:

Yes, that is the default location. It is best practice to change this to a custom folder of one's own choosing to make accessing it easier, like I described in one of my previous posts. But this should only be done BEFORE installing any 3rd Party software. Because if you change it now, the sim will not see what you have already installed.

 

But should you ever think of doing a full re-install of the sim and your add ons, this would be the first step after installing the sim.

 

All that being said: Did the reinstallation of the 737 yield positive results?

Nope, only aircraft that show are the pmdg home aircraft.

22 minutes ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

Nope, only aircraft that show are the pmdg home aircraft.

I have a suspicion:

Windows has per default a charcater limit for file paths. Since the default path to the community folder is already excessviley long it might be that the paths to the liveries simply end up being too long.

 

There is one more thing you can try before a full reinstall of the sim: Uninstall the PMDG aircraft again and then install it again, only this time use the settings menu in the PMDG Operations Center first and click: "Install into Custom Location" instead of "Install directly into Community" and make sure you have the "Create Symbolic Link to Community Path" set to "on" as well.

 

If this also doesn't help then you are only left with the nuclear option and reinstall the entire sim. After you have done that go back to that cogwheel in "My Library" and change the folder path to a folder of your own choosing. Something that is easy to access and find with a nice catchy name like "MS24"  or "Mike's Add Ons" 😉

Do that BEFORE installing anything else into the sim.

 

Then before installing the PMDG stuff just double check that the OC is pointed correctly to that new folder location, wherever you choose it to be.

 

Edited April 2Apr 2 by Farlis

7 minutes ago, Farlis said:

I have a suspicion:

Windows has per default a charcater limit for file paths. Since the default path to the community folder is already excessviley long it might be that the paths to the liveries simply end up being too long.

 

There is one more thing you can try before a full reinstall of the sim: Uninstall the PMDG aircraft again and then install it again, only this time use the settings menu in the PMDG Operations Center first and click: "Install into Custom Location" instead of "Install directly into Community" and make sure you have the "Create Symbolic Link to Community Path" set to "on" as well.

 

If this also doesn't help then you are only left with the nuclear option and reinstall the entire sim. After you have done that go back to that cogwheel in "My Library" and change the folder path to a folder of your own choosing. Something that is easy to access and find with a nice catchy name like "MS24"  or "Mike's Add Ons" 😉

 

 

Hi,

I have a full MSFS2024 500+ GB download setup, I'm not going to do a reinstall for a few PMDG liveries because their OC3 creates a mess. I will remove PMDG house colors for the ones I want, won't change any, but better than their house colors! 

1 hour ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

Hi,

I have a full MSFS2024 500+ GB download setup, I'm not going to do a reinstall for a few PMDG liveries because their OC3 creates a mess. I will remove PMDG house colors for the ones I want, won't change any, but better than their house colors! 

edit already mentioned before 

Edited April 2Apr 2 by pete_auau

2 hours ago, Farlis said:

I have a suspicion:

Windows has per default a charcater limit for file paths. Since the default path to the community folder is already excessviley long it might be that the paths to the liveries simply end up being too long.

There is one more thing you can try before a full reinstall of the sim: Uninstall the PMDG aircraft again and then install it again, only this time use the settings menu in the PMDG Operations Center first and click: "Install into Custom Location" instead of "Install directly into Community" and make sure you have the "Create Symbolic Link to Community Path" set to "on" as well.

I'll give that a shot. I have the original 738 liveries backed up now that I replaced PMDG house paint schemes.

Edited April 3Apr 3 by Mike_CFII_MEL

Changing the path to C:\MS2024 didn't work, symbolic link on.

Edited April 3Apr 3 by Mike_CFII_MEL

this is a strange one, silly question are you downloading  the msfs2024 and not  the msfs2020 version 🙂 

1 hour ago, pete_auau said:

this is a strange one, silly question are you downloading  the msfs2024 and not  the msfs2020 version 🙂 

I'm running MS2024.

1 hour ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

I'm running MS2024.

so did you ever had msfs2020 and had any issues with the livieries

10 minutes ago, pete_auau said:

so did you ever had msfs2020 and had any issues with the livieries

I had MS2020 with pmdg liveries, no problems at all.

Edited April 3Apr 3 by Mike_CFII_MEL

Just now, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

With 2020 and pmdg liveries, nope no problems at all.

than it has to be  your install of  msfs2024 than some thing is not right some where

 

And the fact that it didn't even work with the manually installed livery we tried yesterday strongly indicates that something is not as it should be with the install in general. It's not the Operations Center that does strange things, it is something within the sim's installation. Still can't think of what it could be.