Thanks FutureFlyer828: Ran the command but the installer stalled shortly after starting at the decompressing step shown previously above. So no help, alas. I did shut down and restart of the installer three times.
I did notice that flight simulator makes about 30 443 TCP connections to various IPs. That’s surely wrong but might be helpful to Absobo if they get around to looking into this.
Wonder what would happen if I delete all the files in Store. Can’t hurt as I am gettig no where.
Edit: Cleared out the OneStore directory by using file explorer delete. Restarted the “installer” which ran over night. 25 files were installed to OneStore before the installer hung up on one of the icao* packages. I’m thinking I might try to uninstall what ever I have todate and then format my 2020 D drive and give it one more try.
RANT ON:
I’m not sure I am qualified to lecture M$/Absobo on downloader protocol but they might take a lesson from X-Plane. X-Plane’s installer runs on the local PC by creating a file list with some sort of Checksum computed for each file included in X-Plane This file list and checksums are then compared with the master list at Laminar Resarch server. If there is a missing file, it is downloaded. If one is corrupted that file is renewed. If a local file is found to be changed, the installer asks whether you locally want to keep the file you modified, or have it over written with the default. Now this is time consuming but IMHO (Engineering degree from 1972) would to be superior to the current 2020 method.
RANT OFF