Due to a driver update making my normal system sound device unusable, The HP support person I connected with told me the only solution is to completely ‘Reset this PC’ from the cloud. That will result in my having to rebuild everything.
I wanted to copy the contents of my Community Folder to another drive, so I created a folder there entitled FS Community Backup and tried to copy and paste everything that was in my normal Community folder. I just kept getting “Your organization does not allow you to place this file here.” … for each and every file.
Am I doing something wrong or might anyone have a suggested workaround? Thanks in advance.
Your computer has a corporate security policy applied to stop you copying data to another device. This may have happened if you work from home on that computer or if its actually a company owned PC.
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Zip (pack) files and folders 
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Where did you created this folder? It seems you do not have permission to write to the new folder. You can change this (if you have admin rights) in the sttings of the folder.
Or you create the backup folder at a place where you actually have rights to write.
I assume you are on yout home computer and I assume this is Windows Home where user notoriously locked out from stuff.
Thanks 269,
I created the folder on my D Drive where any other folder works. I tried your suggestion and went into the properties and security and gave “Full Control” and it still doesn’t work.
I can copy in files from any other location I’ve tried so to me it seems it isn’t the destination folder that is the problem but rather some restriction being sent along by the source folder which is: “C:\Users\jjayl\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Community”. I believe on earlier versions of FS (like a year ago, I could do that but since then the backup folder got empty somehow and now it doesn’t work. I even created a new one with a slightly different name and that didn’t work either so I’m pretty sure the problem is at source.
You can use 7zip to pack files and folders.
So pack folders (community) and move to “disk D”
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Ok, that seems strange, that you don’t have read permissions on the folder, but anyway, you can also change the permissions for this folder.
I don’t have the issue by myself though, since I have the Steam version which saves the files in the Steam library, where I have full control over.
But I have also no problems reading (or writing for that matter) in any Folder under C:\Users<myusername>\AppData (including subfolders). But this may be a restriction by Windows 10/11 Home or Windows 11 in general. My Windows 10 Pro does not have this restriction, but as said you should be able to get the permissions needed for the folders in question even in Windows Home or Windows 11.
If he doesn’t have read permissions on the folder, this wouldn’t work either … and since he can’t read (aka copy) any file, also 7zip wouldn’t read the files 
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In my case I have different UserCfg.opt files and when I want to move them to a folder on the desktop, I use winrar (right click on the file, add to usercfg.rar and then move the rar to another destination)
I think it might better to address this.
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HP really want you to reset your entire PC because of an audio driver issue!? Why not remove/re-install the audio driver?
TenPatrol,
IT WORKS !!!
Zipping the folders allows the copying of it to any location. How you figured it out, I dont know. I have been working on trying to copy this files so that I can then use Addon Linker. I changed all sorts of policy rules, admin rules, and even prayed. My prayer was answered with your post.
Thank you
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You’re very welcome - fly safe capt.
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If only the Community folder supported a compressed format.
(1) Content would take up far less space on the Drive
(2) That smaller size, compressed content could be read off the drive, and decompressed, faster than reading a whole mass of folders and files for that given content.
(3) Less chance of missing or misplaced files for a given community folder item, as they are all kept in one compressed file.
– waiting for the inevitable response 
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Happy to hear this was resolved. If you mark the post from TenPatrol as “Solution” that helped. It gives TenPatrol merritt, and others that find this thread can see that there is a solution when facing the same problem. Gets them there faster.
Have you actually unzipped them into your Linker folder, and had links created in the Community folder?
I struggled with this. I couldn’t copy the files in Community, but I found I could move them to any other folder to which I had write permission. The problem (as I learned) is that once I moved them out of the Community folder, Linker couldn’t write the links to them because they are encrypted files.
I had to copy the mods that had never touched Community from my downloads folder into the Linker folder. Once I did that, Linker created the links in Community with no problem.
Maybe zipping the files out of Community and unzipping them into the Linker folder would solve the problem as well. I’m curious to know.
There should be no encrypted files in the community folder.
If you are trying to copy encrypted planes in the community folder, then you are “being naughty” !!!
If the plane has an Install program, that automatically puts its files into the community folder, then run that install, and you can then either
- Leave them there , and hey will load every time MSFS loads, irrespecive of Addon Linker.
or
- You can MOVE those Installer installed files (the whole Folder structure), into your Addon Linker Folder, and then run addon linker to set up profiles, to decide if you want THAT plane to load or not.
But trying to put MSFS-encrypted MS-Marketplace planes, in the community folder is just not going to work, because encrypted files in the community folder will not be decrypted when the sim runs.
Note, there is a way with Addon-linker to Include YOUR OWNED MSFS encrypted file in Addon Linker ( for “ADVANCED” users), but they need to be put in a second, DIFFERENT Addon_linker folder, that points to OneStore . (Perfectly legal !!)
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Here is how I did it. It’s very simple.
- Zip the entire Community folder. If its too big, you can zip the folders inside individually. The key here is to zip them inside the Community folder.
- Copy the zipped file into a folder in your Documents directory you want to keep it as your backup.
- Copy and unzip the zipped file into your empty Addons folder.
- Delete All the folders inside the MSFS Community folder leaving it empty.
- Run Addons Linker - the left side has your addon folders - the right side MSFS Community folder should be empty.
- Activate your Addons.
Note: For installing new modules
Some developers will automatically install addons into the Community Folder.
Process to Install: - In Addon Linker - Deactivate ALL Addons.
- Install new addon
- Follow process above for the new addon.
Enjoy
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Thanks for clarifying.
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Thanks men! ive find this for long time, Miguel from Chile!