The “wgs” folder is located here:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\SystemAppData\wgs
This is where you fill find your logbook, and controller settings.
If we “tree” that we get this:
tree /F %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\SystemAppData\wgs
├───00090000025CC6EC_00000000000000000000000069F80140
│ │ containers.index
│ │
│ ├───06C391E7205049A3BFA56B2C37922CB9
│ ├───17C231398E0D4133BAECAA15662B8E01
│ ├───1B886126CA6B463EA4AE62D991810BAD
│ ├───3DB9366AADDF4F41BEF81BA6485CF836
│ │ 13C97BE85D2F465B8C6FCFCF6C037F24
│ │ container.248
│ │
│ ├───54B45225FF9348F9BA6911333E7388AC
│ │ 6CBC072A1BDD4D968550E0BE983A4F0B
│ │ container.73
│ │
│ ├───651F50078563456A860319C59F970572
│ │ 0109D844021E4FFCB31015FE7CCB8971
│ │ container.26
│ │
│ ├───6C5B22820ED742429D995CDD627908EA
│ │ 729099620A7D403AA477C41E385C6525
│ │ container.190
│ │
│ ├───6ED773307FBF487D8D6AFD2F35D4C546
│ ├───6F02BD0AC77A4357BB473DB79C53EF93
│ ├───731870735A44418BABA5EF75DB9CFF2D
│ ├───78009B7D31784213849826CE696E3893
│ ├───78F01567BD9F4EEB936604788D824EE1
│ │ container.254
│ │ D1EE9B3511FE4B9293AAE8E8FCC47239
│ │
│ ├───7B1EEFF544584775B12C010A7C8C11F2
│ ├───80873B8A1FCE4D21B8BE41CCA02800B4
│ ├───80BD9491A85849A7B656876FFED20994
│ ├───83957F2F89C040C3888B1F929DDD7378
│ ├───870EE44918FE43E88CC3B57E069ED715
│ │ container.8
│ │ E45B8DFC610E4151887B6DE8FFA65532
│ │
│ ├───93BD68A2960E445F8F55D9833E4EEFBA
│ │ BEE40C2A22134DBE8667CF39EBB67D0C
│ │ container.13
│ │
│ ├───994131D2959E43CE8CF121C0808DEADC
│ ├───9BBC0ED199514E3AABB24C1B4687B005
│ │ 57000C343B214D8E88F49FBDD06FF2EB
│ │ container.155
│ │
│ ├───9E061012CCD04A10AAD0BFCD255CD8FE
│ ├───A277CF0EAFE84E498905584812A28808
│ ├───A27A2D0A75B24ABD8A3E6D6BDA6FBF03
│ │ container.19
│ │ FA36070F24D34753BD96FFAD7D1160C9
│ │
│ ├───A478EAA01CDD47478A3678FCD20B2F47
│ │ container.63
│ │ D429E02B74DA42029FEBC43ABBBDDAD3
│ │
│ ├───B5962933C4F34C2BA3B45AE8F8C15471
│ │ 77D0A39CA25B49EB94BC3CA9535BDA61
│ │ container.192
│ │
│ ├───C171D69480D64CFAAD62FE3EA078AE6F
│ │ 15A7EC8C87E8470A99ADD5342A4B8F38
│ │ container.83
│ │
│ ├───C29E2CB4385349D98CCD20DA2D130575
│ │ 6D3012B54ACB47B0AFEC238AAD4ADA26
│ │ container.26
│ │
│ ├───E071D65B31414E53A2CA3DA20E0177ED
│ └───F2E80B109FCD449E98D4886E92E4DCBB
└───t
Each of the folders that has a “container.*” file contains one other file. This other file may contain your logbook, or it may contain settings for a controller.
I as hoping that for the users that have lost controller data there may be some orphaned data here that could be copy/pasted over the top of the newly wiped data.
Graphical settings are stored in this file:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\UserCfg.opt
What I observed was the folder names are immutable, at least on my system. So the settings for my TQ6+ throttle quadrant are always in this folder:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\SystemAppData\wgs\00090000025CC6EC_00000000000000000000000069F80140\9BBC0ED199514E3AABB24C1B4687B005
You will see that above in the folder with “container.155”. But what I also noticed is that although the folder doesn’t change, the files inside it do. It’s like the file itself is repeatedly copied over. Some may rememeber a bug a few months back here one of these sets of files were endlessly being deleted, and re-created, leading to slow down.