Oh gosh, not sure if this needs a bug report but this is a cautionary tail. I know I probably messed up after having years of trouble-free MSFS downloads 
, I’m now presently having to redownload the whole sim again… 
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So getting excited for Microsoft Flight Similator SIM Update 10. I launched the Mcrosoft Store. It said Microsoft Flight Simulator had been updated ‘moments ago’. So I had assumed it had done it in the background as I had the PC on for a while.
I then loaded MSFS and it came up with a popup saying MSFS was downloading Sim Update 10 which I know was 1.1GB the same as the installer MS Store would have downloaded. So I thought that was odd…
I then clicked Get Updates from the Microsoft Store and sure enough it started to download the 1.1GB patch as well. So with competing downloads, I closed the MS Store window and then my MSFS icon disapeared from my desktop! I panicked and closed the MSFS window and then couldn’t get back into the sim, no executable.
The option from the MS Store page was to install, I clicked on this thinking it would pickup where it had left off and it ended up doing a full install! (still going I’m 20% in!)
So the obvious questions for MSFS team are the following:
- Why does the MSFS executable compete to download the same file with MS Store, if the executable picked up the fact the binary was out of date, the MS Store update becomes redundant.
- Why is the executable not protected, so when a download occurs it is replaced AFTER the download has finished?
- Why didn’t the install process recognize I had files from a previous installation, when I checked everything was wiped, I had just a few GBs in the Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe folder.
I know I messed up canceling both downloads, but there you go, you hope the process would be secure enough to prevent user error like this.