The only other thig I did was untick “Keep games saves in the Steam Cloud for Microsoft Flight Simulator” before starting the game.
This option is under Properties for Microsoft Flight Simulator and on the General Tab, then I restarted the game and thats when it went through as if I had just installed the game, and the next time I started it after setting up my controllers this otion was re ticked and then it asked me if I want to download my old files to replace the new ones, which of course I said no.
I think your just grabbed your old currupt files as you started it, im sorry I missed this step out.
