Good day,
i initially bought MSFS on the MS Store but I am just always having trouble with programs installed via MS Store (including other games). Every now and then I run into a problem where I wouldn’t be able to launch my Store programs because the “storage device is offline or missing”. This will come out of nowhere with no warning and sometimes even if I used the app just minutes ago. Usually after enough troubleshooting the Store would recognize my hard drive again and I could use my apps again.
Now I’ve run into this problem once more but this time, no matter what I do, I can’t fix it and I’m tired of Microsoft’s weird spoonfeeding-the-user Store/XBox ecosystem.
Long story short: I handed Microsoft another 50€ and bought MSFS again via Steam. Definitely not gonna buy anything at all from the MS Store ever again and wish I never had left any money in there.
Only problem now is I’d have to re-download the whole game when my Packages are still updated and functioning sitting on my hard drive.
Does anyone know if there is a way to locate the already installed Official package in the Installation Manager?
Directing the installation location to it won’t help and manually changing the UserCfg.opt installation path doesn’t help either. It’ll just start downloading and writing onto the healthy files.
Worst comes to worst, I’ll just have to re-download the whole 100GB but in that case if anyone has a solution this might help someone else in the future.