Be advised, a few of us beta testers are seeing our logbooks wiped.
Do yourself a favor and backup your data now before you, too, lose your sim hours and logbook progress.
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There is no reason why you cant Backup the WGS folder, EVERY time you start MSFS, and keep all copies.
I start MSFS with a Batch file, that does a number of things BEFORE starting MSFS.
One of these is to backup my WGS folder, into a new time-dated backup folder,
- ie CRUDE but simple ---- it works, ---- so if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
echo off
cls
echo ###############################################
echo # BACKING UP MSFS Configs and Settings #
echo ###############################################
echo.
set CUR_YYYY=%date:~10,4%
set CUR_MM=%date:~4,2%
set CUR_DD=%date:~7,2%
set CUR_HH=%time:~0,2%
if %CUR_HH% lss 10 (set CUR_HH=0%time:~1,1%)set CUR_NN=%time:~3,2%
set CUR_SS=%time:~6,2%
set CUR_MS=%time:~9,2%set SUBFILENAME=%CUR_YYYY%%CUR_MM%%CUR_DD%-%CUR_HH%%CUR_NN%%CUR_SS%
set BU_DIR=C:\MSFS_CONFIG_BACKUPS
IF exist %BU_DIR% (echo OK: Backup folder %BU_DIR% exits ) ELSE (mkdir %BU_DIR% && echo Note: Backup folder %BU_DIR% Created)xcopy “%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\SystemAppData\wgs” “%BU_DIR%%SUBFILENAME%\WGS” /e/h/i/q
echo (1) “WGS” folder has been backed up.
echo.
Every so often, delete the ones you no longer want to keep.
Seems I still have backups going back to March 2023 - I am good !!!
OK, maybe a LITTLE excessive !!
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When did they say they were actually rolling out this compression “fix”? Next SU?
Wondering if I can survive that long. Up to 14,690k after today’s flying. 100k per average session, leaves me… ummm… not a lot of safety margin! 10 flying days. Eck!
I’ve been looking through my folder and it’s only a couple of Mb. I wonder if those who do the beta testing have more information recorded in it, hence it filling up?
I’ve never done Beta, but suppose I do a lot of short flights 
3438 entries.
IRL if your paper logbook gets full, you just start a new one, carrying over your totals. That might se a possible “option” for a MSFS logbook filling up past capacity ?
This worth a try?
https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftFlightSim/comments/zecfzx/msfs_logbook_exporter/
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