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MFS 2020 Stuck on "Checking for updates"

Hello,

I was able to download MFS 2020 and play with it 2 or 3 times with no problems. But now, I get 2 errors when I start the game:

1:  We can't sync your data with the cloud right now 

2: If I ignore above message and continue, the game gets stuck with "Checking for updates" and never starts.

I tried all the suggestions I have seen on the web incl. starting as administrator, latest Nvidia drivers, latest windows updates, disable firewall with no change.

I also uninstalled the game 3 times and re-installed it, and again, same problem.

I moved the game to a different drive and same problem.

When I uninstall the game, the free disk space on the drive remains the same. When I move the game to a different drive, the free disk space on both drives remains he same and the re-install is much, much quicker than the original first install. This can only mean than uninstalling the game does not remove the original files, nor does it free disk space used by flight simulator.

This is really frustrating. I should be able to do a complete uninstall that deletes ALL the MFS 2020 installation files.

Any other suggestions from anyone?

Thanks,

Maurice

I have the same problem "stuck on checking for updates". I hope that next patch can resolve this situation. It's very frustrating. I have tried every suggestion without success. 😒😔

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Well, I did resolve the mystery in my case, especially free disk space issue. 

A couple of days after I had installed the program, I changed my Microsoft store account email address because I was fed up with emails disappearing in my Yahoo address. So I changed it to a gmail address and this was when the problem started. 


When I started the game after the address change, it got stuck on checking for updates, so I tried all the suggestions floating around including uninstalling and reinstalling the game. Apparently, the first uninstall did remove the main program files and the free space on the drive must have increased as expected.


What happened then, when I tried to reinstall, it was just reinstalling some basic stuff of about 1 GB but not the actual program files and that is why the free disk space was basically not changing anymore, even if I moved the installation to a different drive.


So, I finally remembered that the problem started after I had changed my email address. I then changed it again back to my old Yahoo address and bingo, the next reinstall took several hours and about 100 GB and all is good again.


The real clue here that I had missed was the first message I was getting before it would get stuck on checking for updates which was “We can’t sync your data with the cloud right now”. Apparently, the program is not smart enough to realize this was the same Microsoft store account but with a changed email address.


Anyway, many, many frustrating hours later, life is good again. I think that the change of email address might not have caused a problem had I not removed the Yahoo address completely. Maybe if I had left it there as a secondary address, it might have been ok, but I’m not about to test that again 😁.


Hope this will help someone with this same ‘problem’. 

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See my reply to my own question. In my case, this was an issue with Microsoft store not recognizing me because I had changed my email address after I bought the game. You may also have some issue with the Microsoft store for same or other reason.

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I have the new update installt 

and guess what the sim. is crashing the hole time ! 

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