The creators of Flightlog Analyser could probably assist with that. It can be used to restore a lost logbook, or even edit individual rows. With some fettling it could be used to restore a 2020 logbook into the 2024 format, if they are different.
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Yeah I thought of that. Shame external developers have absolutely zero lead-time before launch to get things working. I guess once you start in 2024, it will be too late to get your logbook across as merging sounds like another layer of complexity where things could go pear-shaped. Would have been great to have a tool like that at launch.
I’m not so sure it would matter actually. It can already export/import/edit your 2020 logbook. It can be made to do the same with 2024. Once the developers understand how to import/export from 2024, changes in how the data are stored would be relatively simple to update. The source file format really doesn’t matter, be it an XLS or CSV file. So you would just be restoring a file with data from somewhere else.
In effect you would be restoring data to a database, that was exported from another database. Pretty simply stuff it was SQL, for example. The schema for the new database might be different, though.
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Wow! And I thought that I had done a lot of hours!
Retirement means “Nothin’ to do and all day to do it”… 
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I’m four years overdue, I can’t wait to put the theory to the test!
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My logbook is broken. Too many beta tests, and some time time spent testing on a Store copy. That’s fine with me.
47hrs only, which I was surprised. but I guess it makes sense with 20-60minutes 0 to 3 times a week over the past year.
1,323 hours
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I actually found that there was so much to do that I had to prioritize stuff. Let’s see. Number one: eat. Number two: sleep. Number three: fly. and some other incidentals in between…LOL
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FINALLY! Sim hours > IRL hours!
Been flying in the sim since its release but clearly not nearly as much as some others, so I only crossed the 500 hour mark today. This is now just barely over my real life hours: I stopped flying in the late 1990’s.
Just in time before MSFS 2024!
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It depends 47 hours can feel like a lot or a little, depending on the plane. For me, it would be very little time because I fly internationally on jets from Europe to America and Asia. A typical one way flight takes around 15 hours, so a round trip can easily be 30 hours. With a jet like the 777, it’s easy… But the real challenge comes when trying to make an international flight on a DC6 or small plane a 15 hour flight can turn into several days…
I hardly do any full flights. the most I’ve done is ORD-STL, flying in external view recognizing where I am from real life experiences & using the map at times. 45min. mostly I just fly around for 5-20minutes per plane & then sign off
I think the real question should be how hours do you have actually flying and not just in autopilot…. That’s a worthwhile stat IMHO. 
2700+ hours in sim. (missing >1000 due to broken log book between SU5 and SU8.)
80+ hours Irl
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This morning my logbook was wiped somehow. At least it only happened to me a few weeks before we all have new logbooks anyways.
Not enough - life got in the way ha ha
Me none Im still in the same room. Been here for years sadly. 
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After re-installation and logbook reset in 2023 i have flown 442 hours.
I hope 2024 is good enough so the counter of MSFS2020 will stay this way.
Hit my goal of 1,000 flight hours in 2020 yesterday (less of course the many flights terminated by the Xbox crashing). Who knows how many hours in legacy MSFS versions decades ago? A few hundred perhaps. And over 400 hours IRL decades ago as an instrument rated private pilot in the US. A good guess would be 2,000 hours overall, but whatever, right? Good flying!