Yikes!
I will gladly pay on Tuesday, for a beta flight today!
Yeah, neither of my PCs were unenrolled.
I read this to mean they removed any users who were left in the temporary group they used to do this version shuffle (my emphasis):
“Today we will also automatically unenroll any users on Windows PC who have not yet been moved to the flighting group. These users will need to rejoin (via the Xbox Insider Hub) if they wish to participate in flighting again.”
Whatever the case, what a messy situation they made.
The optimist in me wants to believe that since I now have only one Insider Hub opt-in line item that I am home-free. The realist is concerned that my pre-Friday opt-in is still there. Would be nice to have some clarity, if there is any in the offing. Hoping for the best but hope is not the best plan, or a plan at all really.
I believe all is as it should be, at this point. I’d let go of any worry, but back up your Limitless directory, nonetheless.
What I am more worried about is what @DrVenkman3876 went through with leaving the insider program for 2020. I’m not touching that!
Good call. The initial “update” wasn’t a big deal on its own but the subsequent inability to load without a silent CTD - even in Safe Mode and an empty Community folder! - was no bueno, nor was the wipe and 280+GB subsequently downloaded to get back to a working sim.
I am still in the beta flight. I am going to leave it that way and hope that MS know what they are doing. Strange thing is that since this debacle and rebuilding 2024 in a custom directory, 2024 has become MUCH more stable. I have done 3 long flights now (A350, A330 and Fenix A321) without any freeze or crash. This is a record for me. Crossing my fingers that this is not just a coincidence.
The same for me. I had chosen a custom community folder and after the update the community folder was reset to the default location (and empty!) as well as my rolling cache location was reset to default. The graphics settings where lost too. Fortunately the contents of my original custom community folder was not wiped out so I just needed to point the sim to the old custom location again. Fortunately too the sim itself was not deleted opposite to some other users.
L’espoir n’est pas une stratégie
Yep. Looks like it
That is really too much for me. I fly with MSFS since FS98 and hundreds (1000s ?) of $ for MS and addons. I lost all my settings again Ang most of the addons are not working (I restored correct link for the Community Folder). I even don’t want to revert to MSFS 2020 but I just purchased Xplane. Shame on you Microsoft and Asobo.
Hopefully this time around they don’t plan any releases for a Friday afternoon or evening.
The Phantom Update hit me for a second time!
I was hit first 3 days ago.
I reinstalled MSFS2024, downloaded some of my extras e.g. Fenix, Navigraph, A350, airports etc .
I didn’t attempt to use MSFS2024 until today.
But before I did I followed the instructions to resolve the problem by leaving the beta. I rebooted and immediately MSFS2024 got deleted and reinstalled. So I lost all my extras again.
This is really annoying, to say the least.
If the wizards in Microsoft are not certain a solution they are suggesting will work they should say so.
Hmm… Xbox app says I have an Update for 2024.
Is it this issue (again), or is it SU2?
To be clear, what happened last week was not a planned release. The production team was doing some back-end prep work for the SU2 beta that should have been completely invisible and transparent to end users. We are still investigating the cause of the phantom 8.7GB deployment and why it affected some PC users but not Xbox users.
Please see this topic for more information:
Thanks,
MSFS Team
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The SU2 beta just went live on all platforms. You can read the (very lengthy!) release notes here:
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/sim-update-2-beta-1-4-7-0-release-notes-march-25-2025/712825
Thanks,
MSFS Team
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WHEW! Thanks, amigo!
No. If you are currently enrolled, then you will now have access to SU2 Beta.
Check your Xbox App, MS Store or Steam, as required., to update.
I am updating right now…