hello, no worry, something is probably wrongly configured. It should be easy but i'm not really sure what is happening on your system just by reading your message. I will send you a little private message with some info i need and i'm sure we'll find a solution (or at least an explanation).

Thank you for your feedback, much appreciated !

hello and thank you for your feedback, yes that's normal, the tool just links MSFS addons and, by definition, they all have a manifest.json files otherwise they are not considered addons by the sim. This is also needed because the tools needs to recognize if a folder is an addon or not (so that you can create subfolders to organize your addons). If you want to link tools or other folders that are not really addons (like simbridge), a little workaround that you can use is just to create a fake manifest.json file (just copy one from a real addon so that it has the correct format and change the description) at the root of the folder. You will then be able to link it. Let me know if something is not clear, thank you.

thank you for your feedback appreciated. When you update you will not loose your settings, just download the new zip and extract it in the same location as before overwriting the existing files. The settings are save in the 'C:\ProgramData\MSFS Addons Linker' folder (the presets are also saved there unless you manually changed the location in the options screen).

hello, it's a bit difficult to reply just by reading your previous msg, i will send you private message so we can check things further.

I havent tried myself but i think you can disable default handcrafted airport inside the sim via the 'content manager'. If you want to try, with addon linker you use the 'content.xml' editor (in the tool option) and you can set a particular addon to be disabled, just uncheck it and then click ok. If i'm not sure about this is because i think they made changes in SU10 about the content.xml file so i'm not sure if what i just said will still apply if you have already the SU10 beta or when the new SU10 will be available for everyone. I have not installed the SU10 beta so i don't know for now.

Tahnk you for your feedback, merci !!!

Thank you very much for you feedback, for sure appreciated !

Hello and thank you for your feedback, appreciated. I'll check if it's possible to add that option in a future release (probably possible). As a workaround, if you filter the data in the grid below the map, only the addons matching the filter will be shown, so if you search for some particular text (like the name of your folder) or if you filter via a column like (country=France) you will have only the filtered elements on the map (not exactly what you want for sure, just a little workaround maybe).

hello, the update process should be very simple -> download the new zip from this site -> extract the content of the zip in the same folder where you have your current version overwriting the existing files -> that should be it. Let me know if you need more help.

hello, thank you very much for your feedback, appreciated.

a) if you select multiple addons selected (right view) the option 'delete selected invalid link' is not available. There is another option that is called 'delete all invalid links' that should remove all those invalid links in only one click. I just tested on my machine and it seem to work as expected, maybe you do something differently, please send me some screens showing me exactly what you are trying to do if you still notice something that doesn't look quite right.

b) in the grid below the map there is a column named 'Folder' that shows the path of the addon, if you can click inside the cell of that column and it will open the folder containing the addon. The row matching the addon is also automatically selected when you click on a dot on the map.

c) if you do a filter by country in the grid below the map, you will see only the addon matching the country on the map. Then you can draw a big square (keep SHIFT pressed + right click) around those addons to select them all in one click and then enable them. There is also some pre-made filter options in the top-right side panel. The latest dev version also have 'polygon' selection that let you draw a shape around the addon you want to select. If you want to try i can send it to you.

Let me know please when you have experimented a bit with those options (feel free to msg if something is not clear as it was a bit shrunk for these small msg boxes) to see if they can help a bit or if you would need some more changes. Thank you.

yes, the links are seen by the Windows system like real folders so there is no difference for the programs reading those folders, they will see them as just like normal folders and everything will work fine. Now, obviously, if makerunways scans the community folder, you need to have your links active before launching the scan because if the 'linked folders' are not there it will not see them (obvious).

Thank you for your feedback, glad that you find the tool useful !

hello and sorry for the trouble, this is very unfortunate but i think you may have the problem that a few had before that if you move your addons outside of your community folder they become unreadable (nothing to do with addons linker, just some stupid security windows feature that seem to affect some people with the ms-store version of the sim). The readme and the first description line of this tool on this page talk about this, it's very important to test first with only a few addons to make sure everything work fine because if you have that problem and already moved 100's GB of addons it's not very funny. It's a bit complicated to go into to much details in these small messageboxes, i will send you a private message.

hello, do you see the icon in the windows taskbar ? if yes, it's probably just the window being restored outside of the monitor boundaries (can happen at time). This is documented in FAQ and there is a little procedure that should fix it -> make sure the tool is closed -> open the INI file with notepad (C:\ProgramData\MSFS Addons Linker\MSFS_Addons_Linker.ini) -> locate and delete the 3 lines at the bottom that start with Windows_xxx -> save the INI file -> restart the tool.

let me know if that doesn't fix it because maybe you have another problem, thank you.

hello and thank you for your feedback. Unfortunately i don't think it's possible to determine automatically that an addon needs a dependency, that would require deep scanning of the BGL files and i'm not even sure that it would be enough. Sometimes dependencies are not even mandatory, if they are missing the object will just not show up the sim, but i really wouldn't know how to find out automatically if an addon uses another addon or not. Your idea is obviously a good one, but i don't think it's doable (at least not with my knowledge).

There is an option that was added recently (can't remember exactly) that let you right click over a library (for example 'daves3dpoeple') and then specify all the addons that use it at once by using the 'set this addon as dependencie of other addons' option (might be a bit faster than doing it the reverse way by selected the main addon first). But then obviously i certainly understand that if you have already 2000+ addons and you have never set any dependencies it would be a bit painful to know exactly which ones to select. But you should start from now on, when you add or use an addon that has a dependency just put it in the program, takes only a few seconds and, in the long term, you will gain by using that option.

Letting them always activated can also be a solution, for that there is a column called called 'persistent' that will let the addon will remain activated even if you apply a preset that does not contain it. There are also 2 little buttons at the top in the toolbar that let you enable/disable only the 'persistant' addons.

Oh well message ended up being too long, hopefully it's not too confusing 😊 .. feel free to msg me if you need more help with some of those features.

Thank you for your feedback and glad you find it useful !

Thank you for your feedback, much appreciated. Yes it's a 'feature', addons defined as being a 'dependency' of other addons are automatically disabled if the program detects that no addon using them are selected (the idea was to have them selected only when needed). But if you don't like that, you can easily remove that default behaviour by checking the option called 'do not automatically disable dependencies if not used' in the options screen (2nd tab). Let me know if something is not clear or if that doesn't resolve your issue. Thank you.