MSFS Addon-Linker app problem

[Navy Chief]

I have been using this awesome application since it was first made available, but I ran into a problem this morning. I am in the process of moving all of my addons to a NAS drive I have, connected to my home network. The previous version of this app detected the NAS drive when I went to add a library to the custom list. However, when I tried the latest version, which was released a day or so ago, my network is not detected. Does anyone have a previous version of MSFS Addon-linker that you can share? I submitted a comment on the Flightsim.to page, but no idea when the author of the app will respond. NC

[stovall]

Chief, just updated the linker with no problems. It recognized my network as before. Not sure why you are having problems. Maybe in the cfg file. Check that out.

[Priller]

Chief, the older version, dated May of this year is still available on flightsim.to if you click on the download button. You have a choice between the current and previous versions.

Cheers,

Priller

[Navy Chief]

Chief, the older version, dated May of this year is still available on flightsim.to if you click on the download button. You have a choice between the current and previous versions.

Cheers,

Priller

Update: I did hear back from the developer, and he sent me a new .exe file, which cured the problem of not detecting my NAS drive, but (even though I am selecting addons for a preset, they are not being injected into the sim).

Linker does recognize the NAS, and successfully added it to the custom library list. I chose a addon (HPG-145 helo) just to check the actual Community folder. When I click on the contents in the Community folder, I get this msg:

"C:\Users\retna\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\Community\hpg-airbus-h145 is not accessible. The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."


In the Linker app, I looked at the right-hand side list of addons, and for that addon, it says, "Could not read the manifest.json.file"


In the left-hand list of addons; when I right-click on that addon to "Open current folder", all of that addon's files DO show up, no problem.


I want to believe there is a solution for this. Hoping you might be able to shed some light on it. Thanks. Pete

[Navy Chief]

Got it working. In the Linker app, there is a option to change the type of files to Symlink. Once I chose that, all works great! NC