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GSX Support MSFS / Re: Couatl suddenly keeps crashing
« Last post by WebMaximus on September 10, 2024, 10:21:52 am »Something very wrong is happening in your system because, the Community folder has been found in this user folder:
C:\Users\richa\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages
And the PMDG airframe .INI file HAS been found in another user folder!
C:\Users\ricga\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\packages\pmdg-aircraft-738\work\Aircraft\G-RUKA.ini
This file exists but then, GSX calculates the WASM working folder assuming the username is coherent, so it tries to look for it here, reading the %LOCALAPPDATA% system variable.
C:\Users\ricga\AppData\Local\
This seems to indicate, you DO have BOTH users, but your %APPDATA% system variable is pointing to C:\Users\richa\AppData\Local, while your %LOCALAPPDATA% variable is pointing to C:\\Users\ricga\AppData\Local
So, something is clearly wrong here, you can verify this by opening a new CMD command prompt, and type SET (then Enter), a list of all system environment variables will appear, check the values for APPDATA and LOCALAPPDATA, normally they point to the same user, which is the currently logged user.
I don't find anything indicating what you suggest on my side. Below are two screenshots, first one showing how the ricga folder doesn't exist and the second one, the system variables where both APPDATA and LOCALAPPDATA have the correct value of richa rather than ricga. So I'm still not sure where GSX gets the ricga from.
What is also strange is how this issue presents itself intermittently. If a value somewhere was incorrect, such as a system variable, I would expect to have the issue permanently.
Also given how the user profile folder is used in lots of places within Windows, I would expect to see the problem not only sometimes in GSX but in lots of situations. I'm not even sure if Windows would be able to run correctly if my user profile folder was incorrectly set.
