Installed product not recognized as installed by iniManager

[WebMaximus]

Yesterday, I bought 14 new airports via the iniBuilds store and very much looking forward to try them out! Never bought anything from iniBuilds before so this is an all new experience to me.

After the purchase, I do find all the airports in iniManager which I downloaded and installed and the first airport I chose to try out is LFKJ by PES. Can't say the installation process was very impressive compared to what I'm used to using other platforms to install scenery but I guess that might differ depending on the developer of the scenery. Still, when sold via iniBuilds and installed using the iniBuilds Manager, I think there is room for improvement to stack up with the competition out there.

One thing I've noticed now after having installed LFKJ is how according to iniManager, I still haven't installed it even when I have and I've verified the scenery has been found and is active in MSFS.

For those of you at iniBuilds working on the iniBuilds Manager tool, what are your plans ahead to improve the tool and make the installation process easier for your customers?

[WebMaximus]

Following up on this one, is there any way to fix the problem with LFKJ showing up as not installed even when it is?

[Eddie]

On 1/9/2025 at 10:49 AM, WebMaximus said:

Yesterday, I bought 14 new airports via the iniBuilds store and very much looking forward to try them out! Never bought anything from iniBuilds before so this is an all new experience to me.

After the purchase, I do find all the airports in iniManager which I downloaded and installed and the first airport I chose to try out is LFKJ by PES. Can't say the installation process was very impressive compared to what I'm used to using other platforms to install scenery but I guess that might differ depending on the developer of the scenery. Still, when sold via iniBuilds and installed using the iniBuilds Manager, I think there is room for improvement to stack up with the competition out there.

One thing I've noticed now after having installed LFKJ is how according to iniManager, I still haven't installed it even when I have and I've verified the scenery has been found and is active in MSFS.

For those of you at iniBuilds working on the iniBuilds Manager tool, what are your plans ahead to improve the tool and make the installation process easier for your customers?

Hi there!

Apologies for the late reply. That does indeed sound wrong. Normal behaviour is that it is recognised immediately. By active in MSFS, you mean that the scenery physically shows up when spawning into the airport? Did you move the scenery folder manually somewhere after install? Are you using Addon-Linker? 

You can try deleting the iniManager folders under appdata/local and appdata/roaming; reinstall and see if the issue persists? Note this will reset any settings you've made. 

Thank you 🙂 

[WebMaximus]

12 hours ago, Eddie said:

Hi there!

Apologies for the late reply. That does indeed sound wrong. Normal behaviour is that it is recognised immediately. By active in MSFS, you mean that the scenery physically shows up when spawning into the airport? Did you move the scenery folder manually somewhere after install? Are you using Addon-Linker? 

You can try deleting the iniManager folders under appdata/local and appdata/roaming; reinstall and see if the issue persists? Note this will reset any settings you've made. 

Thank you 🙂 

Thanks for trying to help Eddie!

Yes, the scenery is active and working perfectly fine. During the second installation and by that I mean once I have installed (which isn't really an installation but rather a download) the product via your iniManager and then launch the downloaded executable file for LFKJ, I pointed the PES installer to my MSFS2020 Community folder since I didn't like to have a scenery under Program Files (x86). First I thought maybe that was the problem. If your iniManager checks whether the product is installed by looking at that default location. That wasn't the case though because I just tried installing into this default location but the product still shows up as not installed in iniManager after restarting it.

Now as a second step, I just tried deleting the folders you suggested but this didn't fix the issue either. The only it did was forcing me to redownload all PES products again since they all appeared as not installed after that maneuver. Good thing I have a quick Internet connection 😉

Something clearly isn't right with LFKJ and iniManager because I only have this issue with LFKJ and not with any of the other PES products I also bought at the same time. They all show up as installed in iniManager. I also noticed how you for LFKJ are referring to a file which never is downloaded and doesn't exist as seen in the screenshot below. So I think you need to look into this issue.

Please also note how LFKJ is said to be installed right after the installation (download) via iniManager but next time you start iniManager, it will tell you LFKJ is not installed. 

 

 

Edited January 21 by WebMaximus
Added some info

[Eddie]

Very odd. Please send a screenshot of your community folder and we can go from there. 

[WebMaximus]

47 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Very odd. Please send a screenshot of your community folder and we can go from there. 

Here you go, a number of screenshots where I think they speak for themselves 🙂

 

[WebMaximus]

Just about to rebuild my system where I'll be going from a 13900K -> 9800X3D and while looking over what program I have installed via the Control Panel in Windows, I noticed how the entry for LFKJ looks different than the other PESIM products installed.

So looks like the installation program for LFKJ in one way or the other is different. Which I assume also is the answer why your iniManager won't recognize it being installed. Maybe you should reach out to PESIM and ask them about this and tell them how the current installation program for LFKJ results in the product not being recognized as installed by your software.

Edited to add, I just noticed I actually have 2 entries for LFKJ with different dates...hmm...

Well, will be interesting to see what happens when I reinstall the scenery on the new PC when I have it finished.

This is what it looks like

Edited January 25 by WebMaximus

[WebMaximus]

Bump...had the same issue on the new system which I later decided to return since I didn't see the performance improvement I has hoping for.

Now back on my old rig, I still have the same issue.

Surely others must be seeing the same thing with Ajaccio?