Content Manager basic question

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Here’s what might be a basic question: what is the roll of the content manager with community add-ons?

I was under the assumption that in order to “install” community add-ons that I simply dumped them into the community folder and MSFS2K would use them upon next launch.

Today I was asked to install something through the content manager and saw around 243 packages “Not Installed”. Most of them I thought worked fine, so to be safe I just selected all of them and clicked the “install” button.

My question is: is the content manager actually doing something additional? Do I need to go into that every time I copy an add-on to my community folder?

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P.S. It didn’t actually “install” any of the community stuff, they are still marked as “Not Installed”. From a user point of view this is confusing. Am I understanding things incorrectly?

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The Community addon showing as Not Installed in Content Manager issue was introduced in the 1.15.8 release. Even though it says “Not Installed”, the addons still work.

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So I don’t need to use Content Manager at all? What’s it for then?

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You don’t need to use it for addons you put in your Community folder but there are times when you need it to install or update official packages.

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