As with SU5 and the previous hotfix, I didn’t have any of those available for download.
Here’s a quick how-to for those similarly afflicted, till Microsoft gets their sh|t together with the download availability:
- get Total Commander
- navigate to your content folder location inside Total Commander:
For MS Store installations it’s like this example:
D:\WpSystem*SomeRandomSequence*\AppData\Local\Packages\ - kill explorer.exe over Task Manager
- rename Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe to something other, enough to delete the _8wekyb3d8bbwe part to keep it simple
- start explorer over Task Manager (File>Run new task)
- open your apps list (in the Settings app)
- find MSFS and uninstall
- open Store, find MSFS, reinstall
- find MSFS in the Start menu, right click>App settings
- verify Build Number (1.18.15.0 for the current hotfix)
- get back to Total Commander
- move over the contents of your Microsoft.FlightSimulator folder to the newly created Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe, skipping all files already present (there will be another popup asking if you want to keep all the long names, answer Keep all, and, as always, read all the prompts you see carefully).
- now you can safely delete the old Microsoft.FlightSimulator folder
- finally sign out of Windows and sign back in, just to clear any possible complications that may have been caused by the explorer kill in step 3
- enjoy your fully patched game
- wait for another download disaster to happen.
Footnote: the above guide works flawlessly even when you just want to reinstall the game if something went wrong, without the need to download the whole 124GB sh|t all over again, especially when you have a cr@ppy internet connection, or the local MS CDN server itself is cr@ppy, like in my case.