lumbco

I have purchased the Top Rudder 103 Solo from the MSFS Marketplace but have found that that the aerodynamics cannot be edited because the ENGINES and the FLIGHT_MODEL folders have been removed. Is this common with Asobo products and does anyone know where the full product can be obtained?

Thanks, I did a little historical research and found that the Flyer engine did not have a throttle. I will try the official MSFS forum for the best way to blip the power in our simulator. I know that a video about the MSFS version of the flyer has been made but I do dislike instructive videos which for me require constant stopping and starting to allow note taking and waste much precious time. Notes are better! Brian Lumb

Thank you for your suggestion. When I searched the term "throttle" in Controls Options it confirmed that axis Z is on the throttle axis. I tried to attach a screenshot to this reply but am baffled by the Avsim requirement to insert a URL instead of an attachment. My joystick throttle is set up properly and works with all other aircraft. Perhaps this is intentional and the Flier did not have a controllable throttle, maybe just a simple 'blip' function? Brian Lumb

The MSFS Wright Flyer is fascinating but I cannot control the engine power with my joystick. Is this intentional or does something have to be set? Brian Lumb

Thank you so much Mick, your advice has worked and it has saved me many hours of restorative work. The restore operation from backup was an adventure and it did not work at first. I re-read your contribution and in particular the information that the profiles are stored in the cloud. I did another restore operation with the internet disconnected and voila all my profiles were there again! I don't know why Microsoft/Asobo puts some of us through all these loops, this is not the first time that I have had issues following an update. Thank you again. Brian

The MSFS Mandatory Update 1.29.30.0 which was distributed yesterday has deleted all my aircraft joystick profiles which I set up in the Options/Controls Options and has also altered many of the settings. Fortunately I regularly back up MSFS which is installed on a separate drive, and I thought that it would be a simple matter to locate and re-install the profiles. I have searched the backup drive but cannot find them, does anyone know where MSFS stores profiles?

Thanks to the help of all who contributed to this thread I have solved the problem with a combination of 7Zip and the Addon Linker. I used 7Zip on the Community folder to enable it to be moved to another drive, unzipped it and behold there was the Community folder filled with all my unlocked files. I then set up Addon Linker and MSFS if running perfectly. I am now looking forward to flying the Ants Tiger Moth to all those minor UK airfields.

Good morning cianpars, regarding your third paragraph the restriction is bigger than blocking the movement of files to another drive, I've just tried copying one of them to another location on the same drive and that is also barred.

Many thanks to those who have replied to this request for help. Later this weekend I will try the 7Zip and Addon Linker solutions and will report back. Having read your responses I realise that the problem may have been triggered by the installation of a bigger drive for MSFS, I Installed a larger capacity drive to replace a 250GB unit. I was then obliged to update MSFS from the Microsoft Store.

MSFS has been running well but I think I have accidentally changed a setting. Some of the folders including Community and Official now have a yellow lock symbol in the top right corner and when I try to copy a file from there an error message reads "Your organisation does not allow you to place this file here". I have a screen shot of the locked files but can't find a way to add it here. Does anyone know what has happened and how I can fix it?

Does MSFS delete old files and clean up after updating? I have a 250GB drive dedicated to MSFS only and it is getting uncomfortably full. When I bought it I thought that 250GB would be ample capacity, but it now looks like I may have to scrap it and install a bigger drive. Currently it is reporting 68GB free and recent updates appear to be filling it more rapidly.