Transfer license from MS Store to Steam

You can “trick” MSFS into doing forced download. This will also verify existing files. Remove all mods from the Community Folder.

Step 1: Close Microsoft Flight Simulator and navigate to the UserCfg.opt file that you can find at the following location by default: C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache

Step 2: Create a new folder. For instance “Package 2”

Step 3: Open the UserCFG.opt file with Notepad, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and change the following line to point to the new folder: InstalledPackagesPath “C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages 2”

Step 4: Relaunch the Microsoft Flight Simulator

Step 5: Sign in with the the Microsoft account used to purchase Microsoft Flight Simulator

Step 6: The update screen should now be available again

Step 7: Make sure that the installation path points to the original/correct installation folder (in this case “packages” and not packages 2" for instance)

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