Mods showing up as "Not Installed" in content manager after a CTD

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Are you on Steam or Microsoft Store version?
Microsoft store version
Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?
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Brief description of the issue:
I was on short final after a 3 hour flight when the sim crashed. This was frustrating, but it wasn’t a problem until I re-opened my sim and out of no where, majority (but not all) of my mods are showing up as “not installed” in the content manager and aren’t showing up in the sim.

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Detail steps to reproduce the issue encountered:
Re open MSFS after a crash, go into content manager

PC specs and/or peripheral set up of relevant:

Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:
1.20.6.0

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I assume after the CTD and restarting the sim that it gave you the option of starting in ‘safe mode’ and you agreed? When in Safe mode content in your Community folder is disabled to isolate anything in there that may be causing CTDS.

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Looks like this issue surfaced after WU4.
Now it has surfaced again after SU7. Many of my ADDONS SHOW UP AS NOT INSTALLED. IN THE PAST, AT LEAST PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO SEE THEM IN THE SIM AND USE THE “NOT INSTALLED” AIRCRAFT AND SCENERY. NOW NOT SO.
I have tried emptying the Community folder and restarting the sim and then closed. Then added the community folder content again but still no go.
Cannot use some of the new freeware aircraft that were usable before SU7.

CTD did happen sometimes but not consistent at all.

My system: i7 9700k, 3.6GHz, 32GB RAM, nVme 1TB, nVidia RTX 2070 Super.

One more bug to add to the disasterous SU7!!

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Did you restart in Safe Mode? If so, it does exactly that - disable all Community Mods to see if they’re the problem.

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Thanks for the suggestion. Hoiwever,
Removing everything in the community folder (same as loading the sim in Safe mode) would not actually recreate the issue as the main problem is that the items in Community folder show as Uninstalled - which previously showed up just fine..

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The additional full step to removing all Mods is to also delete the existing Content.xml. Restart the sim and let it rebuild it. It’s the Content.xml that is still referencing the Community mods.

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Thank you for your help.
I renamed the old file and have let MSFS create a new one. NO luck. Will keep trying to find the solution!
The addon aircraft just won’t show up in the content or “My Hanger”.
The scenery does not seem to have any issues though!