FS2024 has two Community folders, one called just Community, and another called Community2024. Can anyone point me to some 'official' documentation or comments by Asobo that indicates which of the two Community folders is scanned first when the sim is searching for an aircraft file to load? It makes the most sense to me that the Community2024 folder would be searched first, but I would like to verify that.

Thanks,

Al

Edited yesterday at 04:08 AM1 day by ark

according to copilot : read first 2020, then 2024

Folder		Order
Community	Legacy MSFS 2020 add‑ons	1 (first)
Community2024	Native MSFS 2024 add‑ons	2 (overwrite Community)

Edited yesterday at 07:19 AM1 day by willy647

By the way: these Community folders are now supposed to be in the xbox / Content folder too, I have discovered ... my sim is the Microsoft Store version, so this might vary for Steam users, but my new location for Community folders is here:

C:\XboxGames\Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024\Content

I found this when updating the newest Kodiak with the current installer, which spat out multiple error messages when trying to install in the Community folder/s in the old location. When I pointed it to the new location, it worked perfectly without any errors. I have since ensured that all pointers go to this location now and my system is working perfectly well.

I suspect this is to help us avoid problems we have had in the past with fairly common long filename errors.

11 hours ago, ark said:

FS2024 has two Community folders, one called just Community, and another called Community2024. Can anyone point me to some 'official' documentation or comments by Asobo that indicates which of the two Community folders is scanned first when the sim is searching for an aircraft file to load? It makes the most sense to me that the Community2024 folder would be searched first, but I would like to verify that.

Thanks,

Al

Here's the official explanation:

https://docs.flightsimulator.com/msfs2024/flighting/html/2_DevMode/Menus/Tools/Virtual_File_System_Information.htm

5 hours ago, Bob Scott said:

Here's the official explanation:

https://docs.flightsimulator.com/msfs2024/flighting/html/2_DevMode/Menus/Tools/Virtual_File_System_Information.htm

Thanks for the link, @Bob Scott I'm now beginning to understand the categorisations and protocols…and I was completely confused before 👍

I use AddonLinker. I have set AL to put all 2024 links into community, and to never put any links into community2024. I keep community2024 empty. If some folder, somehow, gets put in there I'm going to move it to my addonlinker folder scheme, and addon linker will move the link to it to community, never to community2024.

This simplifies things.

And by the way, my community folder is C:/msfs2024/community. So the paths to the asset links in it are all nice and short.

The split is useful, but I still treat Community2024 as the clean/native side and keep anything older or uncertain out of it until I've tested it. It makes troubleshooting a lot easier, because if something odd happens after an update I can disable the legacy batch first instead of trying to remember which add-on came from where.

For aircraft and utilities I'm a bit more cautious than with simple liveries or scenery. Some 2020 packages work fine, but I don't assume they are harmless just because they load.

4 hours ago, Fielder said:

I use AddonLinker. I have set AL to put all 2024 links into community, and to never put any links into community2024. I keep community2024 empty. If some folder, somehow, gets put in there I'm going to move it to my addonlinker folder scheme, and addon linker will move the link to it to community, never to community2024.

This simplifies things.

Exactly the same here - I use Add On Linker, and put everything into Community. Community24 confused me at first, but it just sits there completely empty and ignored.

@BijanStudio Can your Bijan Seasons Enhanced be placed in the regular Community? In my case, by default, it’s always placed in Community 2024.

So, after reading the official explanation link, I'm still not understanding why I should put my 2024 only addons into the community2024 folder as opposed to the regular one. Will the aircraft behave the same? Look the same?...I have not even used the 2024 folder yet, even with 2024 only aircraft. Am I somehow cheating myself by doing this?

I've only ever installed directly into the main Community folder from day one. Never had anything anywhere else and never had any issues.

1 hour ago, JetClipperJR said:

@BijanStudio Can your Bijan Seasons Enhanced be placed in the regular Community? In my case, by default, it’s always placed in Community 2024.

Yes it can. Simmarket app forces installing it in community2024 folder, but if you purchased it from my own website, either folder will work.

43 minutes ago, hangar said:

So, after reading the official explanation link, I'm still not understanding why I should put my 2024 only addons into the community2024 folder as opposed to the regular one. Will the aircraft behave the same? Look the same?...I have not even used the 2024 folder yet, even with 2024 only aircraft. Am I somehow cheating myself by doing this?

I put absolutely everything in 'Community' - native FS24 add-ons, FS20 port overs ( official and unofficial ), scenery, utilities, mods, the lot. I then have all that linked to my Add-Ons Linker. Everything runs perfectly.

My 'Community2024' folder is empty and, as far as I know, has never been used for anything. In fact, I don't really know why it's there.