Selecting MSFS Version on Updates is Frustrating

[KSJ]

On first arriving on the installer site the MSFS selection window says "MSFS 2024". However, it's not really pointing to the 2024 installation. If you merely select UPDATE the system starts updating the 2020 installation. Even though the selection box already says MSFS 2024, you have to use the drop down list and select it again for the system to actually update the 2024 installation. Since the process takes forever and a day to update, if you only wanted to update 2024, and you forgot to go through the selection again, you're stuck in the lengthy 2020 process. Even if you hit cancel you're still in for a long delay while it concludes the process. The code needs to be reworked such that it updates whatever is showing in the window - which one would expect to be the expected result.

[Ursli80]

Hello

Well, the update doesn't take forever for me.
Must be a slow PC.

Then you're expecting something that isn't there and that's what you want, which might not be possible because the two simulants are completely different in some ways. So please don't automatically assume that what you expect or want is a must or has to be done. Otherwise, you'd have to create and develop the program yourself.

Just my few thoughts.

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Urs
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[pete_auau]

On first arriving on the installer site the MSFS selection window says "MSFS 2024". However, it's not really pointing to the 2024 installation. If you merely select UPDATE the system starts updating the 2020 installation. Even though the selection box already says MSFS 2024, you have to use the drop down list and select it again for the system to actually update the 2024 installation. Since the process takes forever and a day to update, if you only wanted to update 2024, and you forgot to go through the selection again, you're stuck in the lengthy 2020 process. Even if you hit cancel you're still in for a long delay while it concludes the process. The code needs to be reworked such that it updates whatever is showing in the window - which one would expect to be the expected result.

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ok you kind of lost me here on this one i have both sim version when i open up the fsdt installer and click the  first option being msfs2020 and click update it will update both version so on my system, i dont need to go to msfs2024 and do another update since its already been updated  when i done  the msfs2020 version

[srcooke]

i dont need to go to msfs2024 and do another update since its already been updated  when i done  the msfs2020 version

Does it though, when selecting a sim platform the individual community folder is identified.

[pete_auau]

i dont need to go to msfs2024 and do another update since its already been updated  when i done  the msfs2020 version

Does it though, when selecting a sim platform the individual community folder is identified.

yep it correctly identilfies my community folders in both sims

[virtuali]

However, it's not really pointing to the 2024 installation. If you merely select UPDATE the system starts updating the 2020 installation. Even though the selection box already says MSFS 2024, you have to use the drop down list and select it again for the system to actually update the 2024 installation

There's not such thing as a "2020 Installation" or a "2024 Installation"!! That's why the simulator selection, as far as updates are concerned, doesn't matter. You only have ONE Installation for all FSDT Products, and it's in Addon Manager folder, that's the only one and only copy the installer/updater works with.

There's *nothing* in the two Community folders, except a Symbolic link, which is just a logic connection that takes almost zero disk space, and BOTH links in the Community folder point to the SAME one and only "real" installation, which is in the Addon Manager folder.

The obvious benefits of this approach can be seen PRECISELY if you have both simulators installed, because:

- The disk space used is not duplicated, because there's only ONE installation and ONE set of files.

- You only run ONE Install, when installing.

- You only run ONE Update, when updating.

- If you lose your Community folder, for any reason, in any (or both) simulators, there's nothing to reinstall: just click RELINK.