Why am I getting a 120GB Update?

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Went to fly and have a 120 gig mandatory update running??? What is it?

Bill Ditz

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Wild guess here: you were on the SU8 beta and they finally forced everyone onto the main version?

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I think you got the old bug wehre the game forgets that it’s already installed on your pc. Just a thinking about your issue from me what i had experienced often in the past. When you use the steam version and trys to use the game files repair tool from steam, it seems that there is a bug who uninstalls your whole msfs 2020 through the repair tool bug of steam and msfs.

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So is it wiping out all my settings? I wasn’t on Beta

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Yes unfortunaly. :frowning: i experienced that often. It seems that the msfs 2020 forgets that you have already installed msfs 2020. And let you reinstall the complete msfs 2020 again. How i wrote above. But also here just a thinking from me and what i experienced.

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WOW. I have an image back up from 3/3/22 so I guess I’ll have to reimage.

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So no one else is having this issue today when you tried to run MSFS?

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ok then your lucky. i forget often to do back ups :grimacing:. maybe i should do one backup like you from the msfs 2020.

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the forum search tell you about and possible reasons:

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/search?q=store%20redownload%20order:latest

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Thanks folks I’ll just stop it and reimage my 3 disk… :hot_face:

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Moved to #self-service:install-performance-graphics

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Back up and just need to figure out what I need to update over the last 13 days… MSFS is running again.

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Check you cfg file at the bottom and change to correct harddrive letter. Restart and no more update. Happened to me a few times.

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I have a somewhat similar issue. During a recent update, I inadvertently directed it to go to a different Folder that I had created inside the Flight Simulator Folder so it started downloading 120 GIB or so to this folder.
So…I just waited a day until this download was completed… and up came the complete basic installation of FS2020 (Steam Edition).
So figured that all I needed to do now was to delete this Folder that I had created and all would be good to go.
But not so…now every time I start Flight Simulator it always wants to download the 120GIGs.
Before I uninstall and reinstall is there anything I can do to get my original installation back.???
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Herman

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Hi Herman,

can you please open the file %AppData%\Microsoft Flight Simulator\UserCfg.opt and check the last line of the file ( something like "InstalledPackagesPath … " ).

Does the mentioned path match with your packages folder where your data lies ?

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Thank Micha for your reply. In short I will let you know that I was able to correct my issue.
Will reply later.

Cheers…Herman