Can I use this utility to check for possible conflicts in already installed 3D applications in Community (installed with AddonsLinker) ?
P.S I don’t want to install addons with Simstaller. I am completely satisfied with manual installation using AddonsLinker
Yes you most surely can.
For whatever reason, the app doesn’t seem to work for me. Pictured below is how I have it mapped currently. I have my Community folder properly mapped and my Apps Library is mapped to the folder where all of my different MSFS apps are installed, as pictured below. When I go to Scan > Configure > Start Scan, it finishes immediately, showing 0 overrides affecting 0 packages. Doesn’t appear to be scanning at all. I’ve watched the YouTube videos, and they all show that you should be able to see the scanning process taking place. I have things installed that I know for a fact should trigger an override, such as Flow Pro and Rex Accuseason.
Also have a question about file structure. I use Addons Linker for most things, with a few exceptions that always stay in my Community folder. My Addons Linker file structure is pretty robust. For example, if I’m going to download a freeware airport in Mexico, I would install that to MSFS Addons > Airports > North America > Mexico. So my question is when I get the custom bookmark to work, would it scan those subfolders under MSFS Addons? Otherwise, I’ll just use Addons Linker from time to time to put everything into Community where I can then scan everything at once. First, I need to get it scanning though.
The installer part has nothing to do with the scanning part. They are completely separate things.
When you run a scan, it looks at the state of the sim at the time the scan is ran, regardless of the install section or add-ons linker setup. The Core, Officials and Community folders are where the truth is and those are the only folders taken into account in the scan.
That being said, something might be going on with your setup for it to scan zero files. There is a file in Appdata/Roaming/Parallel 42/Simstaller called log.txt. If you could open a support ticket with it we can look at that.
Thanks. I’ve submitted a ticket.
I understand correctly that at any choice here - no changes to the structure of files and their location will not change? Only information… right?
The only thing it changes is what information is utilized when generating your scan report. It does NOTHING to file structure.
I had the same problem. For me I found it is caused by my MSFS account not having admin rights. Simstaller requires admin when it starts, and this promotes it to a different account. From there even though I select the correct directories, and even though with admin rights it is fully able to read the files, for whatever reason it just does absolutely nothing and reports no errors. It doesn’t even write anything useful to the log file.
If I temporarily change my MSFS local user account to be an admin then it just all works. This is obviously a bit inconvenient.
My question is why does it ask for admin rights? The app is just reading files and unzipping and writing contents to directories which are writeable with regular user rights, requesting admin seems to be unwanted privilege escalation.
Regardless, thanks for a great tool, at least the VFS scan is an excellent idea and something I’ve looked forward to trying ever since I saw it mentioned on the dev forum.
The installer is a fantastic concept too, but unfortunately it doesn’t really work with common addon linker setups with a hierarchical addons directory (eg. the kind with paths such as Scenery/Europe/UK and Aircraft/Airliners/A320). The bookmark functionality doesn’t really help because it would need dozens of bookmarks and manual selection for each update, which undoes the automation aspect.
An enhancement that would work really well for addon linker users would be for Simstaller to recursively search the addons directory to find if a package is already installed, and if found then update it in that found location. If not found then just install it at the top directory as it does now. Then users could download package updates and Simstaller would automatically upgrade them in the correct place. For new installs it would unpack and install and users could just then drag the folder from the top of the addons hierarchy into the right directory, which is super simple.
Obviously it’s a tool provided for free and nobody has to use it, but I think such an enhancement would be appreciated by many.
Thanks for the report, I will look into that.
Users put their Official/Community directories in weird places. Running as admin ensures we have the right to read those directories without interruptions.
It would be great if the admin could be optional. I couldn’t find any way so far to run it without admin, but normally I don’t run anything with admin as obviously privilege escalation is undesirable.
Anyone notice sometimes there is a pirate when installing addons?
Maybe it’s giving us some insight as to where your addons are coming from?
Arrr!
yeah that guy lol
@Aeroversa If you need further assistance, please contact //42 Support.
Ever since I installed this, I can no longer just double click any zip file to open it, instead I get blasted by the Windows association window.
If an app is going to make changes to file associations it should really 1) TELL you and 2) Give you the option to change them or not.
Despite uninstalling this program, it is still associating itself with certain programs and I have no clue how to get rid of it. I have checked and it is definitely not installed. Perhaps there is a registry entry that needs to be edited?
Delete the downloaded file and then reassign the filetype to winrar or similar.
