Hello, when you say 'links for my official addons' what did you do exactly ? Did you use the specific option that create a links in the 'official folder' or did you just create the links in your community folder ? Also did you move optional addons (like marketplace data) or did you start moving mandatory data for the sim which are not really addons ? For info a link is seen 100% like a real folder by Windows so it's probably not the link in itself that is problematic, usually when the content manager spins indefinitely it's just one specific addon that is causing the problem (no matter if it's linked or not, happened to me once too). There are also potentiel 'rights/encryption' problems if you have the Store version of the sim and you move things and that's why it's important to start with few addons first and make sure all works before moving too much stuff. There are just too many variables for me to be able to reply precisely, please send me a private message and we'll check in detail what you did if needed. Thank you.

Hello, it's hard to say, just by reading your msg i have no clue when that happens, if it's during the initial load there's probably something that has been added in your addons folders that is causing the issue and we need to find out what it is. I have sent you a little private message to get more info.

hello and thank you for your feedback, to update you just need to download the latest ZIP from this site and then extract all files over the ones you already have and replacing the existing files (your settings will be kept).

hello and thank you for your feedback. Not sure what you mean by 'duplicate' because it can have different meanings, the tool can check for 'folder name duplicates' and those shown in red in the main view and there is little warning sign in the toolbar that will show them in a single click so they should be easily identfied. Those 'duplicates' can be colored straight away in the main view because the duplicates can be identified while reading the folders at the start of the tool. Now if you mean the 'ICAO' duplicates, those require a lot more work because it requires scanning the BGL files, those duplicates are only shown in the special screen that scans for duplicates, it wouldn't be possible to check for those duplicates at every start of the tool and then show them in the main view with a specific color because it would be way too time consuming. That actions can only be made via a special option. Let me know if something is not clear or if i didn't reply exactly to your question.

as with all those options that change files, the aim is to provide some sort of checking and information for advanced users. There is probably no need to rename if you don't have problems with you sceneries. I just had a quick look (been a while i haven't use the option) and it seems that some reported elements in the list should not be there. I will check that soon. The problematic ones are the ones that are in the same folders for 2 or more addons but if one addon has 'scenery/a/modelllib.bgl' and another one has 'scenery/b/modellib.bgl' it should probably not show up as being problematic, if two addons have 'scenery/a/modellib.bgl they can problematic though.

When the result list is loaded, it's grouped by filename, if the group contains only one file then it's probably a false detection and you can ignore that and i'll fix soon, if the grouped elements are more than one the there is a potential issue. Before clicking on the rename button you can just select the file name that you want via a filter and only the addons matching the filter (the one that will be shown in the list) will be renamed. For now i wouldn't touch your payware addons, those are probably correct already. Bit complicated, maybe it gets a bit confusing. I will send you a fixed test version in the coming days if you want.

Hello, the red indication means that you have two (or more) folders with the same name in your addons folders. If you click on the little 'warning sign' button in the toolbar at the top it should show you all 'red' elements and you should be able to see your duplicate. Let me know if it's not what you see.

Hello and thank you for you feedback, appreciated. Not sure if it's good enough for what you want to do but you can export the list of all addons managed via the tool to an XLSX file. If you want a 'flat list' you should use the the top menu option 'Tools -> Addons Grid view' and export that one (right click menu -> Export to XLSX). The same export option is also available on the main view but it's a treeview so maybe it's less suited for an export. Let me know if it's not clear or if you would need something different.

Thank you for your feedback, appreciated !

hello, yes you are right, if you have two packages with the same name it will probably get confused when saving/restoring presets (probably the first or last one will be restore randomly) so it's not reliable. The presets saves only the name of the last folder, so if two addons share the same 'last folder name' the tool won't be able to distiguish which one of the two it is in the preset and the result will be random.

As you said, saving 'by full path' would resolve the problem, that how it was in the first versions of the tool, but then it turned out to be to dangerous because if someone changed the base folder for his addons, he would loose all presets because the full saved path would be different than the full current path (if it's only the last folder name that is saved ,there is no problem because that one would still be the same even if the base folder is changed). So by saving only the last folder name of the package that issue doesn't exist anymore. So it was a choice to do it like that but it has that little drawback if you want to have multiple times the same addon (not sure if my explanations are very clear). I will think a bit about it to see if i can find a solution but it's not really easy, this issue has bothering me for quite some time not exaclty knowing how to improve it.

hello thank you for your feedback. Yep a feature letting users specify conflicting addons has been requested a few times before. It would probably work a bit like dependencies but in a 'reverse way'. I need to investigate a bit more to try to implement that (probably some sort of warning if you enable one addon and its conflicting one is already enabled, or maybe auto-deselection). I wll certainly try to do something about it in the next version.

hello, maybe the tool can not find those coordinates, not sure why though (it can for example happen if it's an addon covering a large area and not being suited to be a repesented by a single dot) . Are those addons available on this site so i can download and check them ? If the lat/lon is not recognized you can always edit the data in the map so that they show correctly (right click on the addon in the grid and then 'edit data').

maybe you have enabled the 'send to tray' option. If you do that, when minimized, the tool will be shown in the tray and so it might not be visible. Then if it's minimized in the tray, the tool is still running so it's normal that if you start it again it will tell you that it's already running. In the options screen please check that you don't have this option enabled -> see pic https://imgur.com/fdZtTnT

If it's not that i'm slowly running out of ideas but we'll find out 😊, let me know, thank you.

Thank you for your feedback, appreciated. Can you please try this to see if it fixes the screen not showing up -> make sure the tool is closed (very important, use task explorer to kill the process if you don't see the screen) -> open the INI file (C:\ProgramData\MSFS Addons Linker\MSFS_Addons_Linker.ini) with notepad -> locate the 3 lines at the bottom that start with Window_xxxx -> delete those 3 lines and save the ini file -> restart the tool. Let me know if that doesn't fix the problem.

Got it, you have to manually delete them in C:\ProgramData\MSFS Addons Linker\Presets

hello and thank you for your feedback. The options are saved in the INI file here -> C:\ProgramData\MSFS Addons Linker\MSFS_Addons_Linker.ini.

If you want, in the options screen (advanced tab), there is also an integrated option to backup all setttings and custom data, you can click on the 'backup now' button and it will create a little backup folder in that prgramdata folder folder with all the relevant files including the INI (very small). Let me know if you need more help.

hello, there is no particularity for the Steam version (i have the steam version). In the options screen you just need to set your REAL community folder (it should end with 'Packages\Community' for steam, i guess you know where it is because that's where you have put your addons until now) and set a custom addon folder where you will want to store the addons managed by the tool. In the option screen you can also select 'Steam' in the 'choose FS version' field (this is used only if you want to launch the sim via the tool). Let me know if something is not clear.

hello, thank you for you very nice comment and suggestion, appreciated ! I thought about that too in the past but it was not really easy to calculate each sceneries position compared to the flightplan to know which ones had to be selected or not. What i did, as a possible workaround, (not sure if you are aware of that), is that you can draw a rectangle around your flightplan and enable everything inside the rectangle in 1 click, that should do the job because everything included in your rectangle will be enabled and it will match with your flightplan. Try to do this -> keep SHIFT pressed while clicking the mouse and draw a rectagle around your flightplan -> this will select all addons inside the rectangle (blue color by default) -> then right click and choose 'enable selected addons'.

Maybe you knew about this already and it's not good enough (depending on the shape of the FP it will probably enable a bit more addons than you would want to, but then if needed you can redo little rectangles to deselect some that are not needed), but if you didn't let me know if that works for you. I will also investigate if it's possible to improve that (would be nice to be able to draw a polygon and not a rectangle, but not sure if possible yet).

** edit ** i just did a little test and it seems i can add 'polygon selection' so in a few click you'll be able to draw a shape matching your flightplan, i will try to finalize that soon ** end of edit **

Thank you very much for your feedback, appreciated ! Not sure what is happening there, maybe a Windows rights issue. I have the FSUIPC FSE client, it seems it stores the login and enrypted password in the same folder as the EXE in a fseco.ini file, for me it works. Do you use that same client, can you maybe check the rights on that fseco.ini file (right click 'properties' then 'security' tab. The only difference that i can think of is that maybe you don't launch FSE and AL with the same rights (for example if you forced FSE or AL in admin mode, but well it should cause any prob...). Still investigating but not easy because i can't reproduce on my end for now.

Hello, ,thank you very much for your feedback. Yes it's a known issue (there is some info about it in the FAQ), it should be easy to resolve if you do this -> make sure the tool is closed -> open the INI file with notepad ( C:\ProgramData\MSFS Addons Linker\MSFS_Addons_Linker.ini ) -> locate and remove the line that starts with Map_Window_Position=xxxx -> save the INI and restart the tool. Let me know if that doesn't fix it for you.

no don't delete the official ones, that's just for info, like if you have the asobo EGLL and the inibuilds EGLL it will show duplicates, but you probably disabled the Asobo EGLL already so all is fine, the tool shows potential duplicates if both would be enabled at the same time, but then it's up to you to decide what should be deleted or not. I don't think you should delete official ones, just disable them in the content manager (like you probably did), deletion should only be done for custom donwloaded addon that you see as duplicates and that you know that you won't use them anymore.