I had to reinstall MSFS after I inadvertently uninstalled it. Long story, but here goes. Well, MSFS reinstalled last night as well as all the updates. However, I directed it to an empty M2 SSD (where it was originally), and although the drive shows the proper number of GB from the sim, it presence there is nowhere in sight. It is not there! No MSFS, no Community folder, no anything…except the GBs are there from the installation. It seems to run from my Users/name/appdata/local/packages/Microsoft Flight Simulator 8wekg and the community folder is under that at…/local cache/packages/community.
I added a plane to the community folder there and it does not show up in the sim. It must not be the actual working Community folder that I’m used to when I first installed the sim over a year ago. I can’t even find the REAL community folder that contains all of my planes, etc. Where can it be?
Although the sim runs…it is difficult to enjoy it without access to the Community folder (that I want to add scenery or planes to) or the questions surrounding why it is not showing up as MSFS on the SSD where I directed it.
What does disk management say? Because not all M.2 mainboards support NVme and confusingly there are also some that don’t support simple NAND (my B550M PRO-wifi included) and even then there are some older ones that only support M.2 wifi modules.
Lol … I read it as if he was launching from the exe. file in the install which then of course would have been unhidden. But of course he only mentioned the path which is visible in the icon properties…
Tried your suggestion but not exactly sure how to do it. I opened notepad, selected Open, and typed in Usercfg.opt and it couldn’t find it.
Sorry for my ignorance on this procedure.
What are we looking for?
Usercfg.opt is in \Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache just right click and select open with then select more apps and notepad.
The very bottom will show your Packages path. It sounds like it’s probably on your empty drive under a hidden folder.
Problem solved. 2 folders under the C:Users (all the way to Flight Sim folder) are OFFICIAL and COMMUNITY. Seems that planes have to go into the OFFICIAL folder and Scenery goes into the COMMUNITY folder. I seems to work. Thank you for your help. Community used to be on the drive I put the sim on. Not in this case, but that’s OK.
Now I have to find a way to shorten my trip to these folders. Perhaps something on the desktop. I don’t know, but at least I’m back in business.
Thank you.
Just click on the game with rmb and click browse local files, it’ll take to the installation where everything is. If you’re ot on steam i assume there still should be something similar on xbox app.
A32NX Flybywire should be in Community folder.
CRJ from Aerosoft shop should be in community folder.
CJ4 by WT team should be in community folder.
G1000/G3000 by WT team should be in community folder.
Aircraft from flightsim.to should be in community folder.
Airports, landmarks etc. from flightsim.to should be in community folder.