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Newcomer / Intro EDEngineer Location
- Thread starter hawknerd
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No wonder. It's really well hidden for some reason.
If you didn't change anything, it should be in: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\YQYQ3XQ9.RO5\532LMGJ0.81C\eden..tion_b9c6c2d0b4f2eae5_0001.0001_37a5eeb7a8022163
The executable is locted in the start menu: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Max
Plus it has bits and pieces all over the place. Questionable?
The AppData folder in Users is normally set to "Hidden" by default. People get into trouble when they are trying to find the Elite install for this same reason.
Anyway. If you search for "EDEngineer" in root or in C: drive, it will eventually find it all, but it takes a while even on my NVME drive for some reason.
If you didn't change anything, it should be in: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\YQYQ3XQ9.RO5\532LMGJ0.81C\eden..tion_b9c6c2d0b4f2eae5_0001.0001_37a5eeb7a8022163
The executable is locted in the start menu: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Max
Plus it has bits and pieces all over the place. Questionable?
The AppData folder in Users is normally set to "Hidden" by default. People get into trouble when they are trying to find the Elite install for this same reason.
Anyway. If you search for "EDEngineer" in root or in C: drive, it will eventually find it all, but it takes a while even on my NVME drive for some reason.
Partially ninja'd - up there 
post #3.
This is an odd one. Here are notes that I made upon installing the application. I placed a notepad file in a subdirectory of my "games" directory to make it easy to find at a later time. In retrospect I guess that was wise. I don't even remember doing that.
<github link to ED-En>
ED Engineer installation provided no opportunity to choose a directory
Program is installed here:
C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\XRKBR9HZ.8EH\M5BC9NQR.R1T\eden...exe_b9c6c2d0b4f2eae5_0001.0001_none_20d0eabaa46ae1e8
and
C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\XRKBR9HZ.8EH\M5BC9NQR.R1T\eden..tion_b9c6c2d0b4f2eae5_0001.0001_5afcc207ecfe1763
The subdirectories below the one that I colored differently in the notes above all appear to be ED-En directories.
In my installation, the executable is in this same sub below the colored one, not in the Start Menu per se. That's an interesting difference from the one noted above. See:
In retrospect I'm not at all pleased about this way of doing things. No useful way to track the shortcut icon on the desktop (if there) or in the START Menu / tiles. Searching your drive(s) for EDEngineer will indeed find this directory and the files (I just tried it).
I'm a stickler for stuff like this. In particular, ED-Engineer has zero need for the fastest drive space on my computer. I would never have chosen to install it on C: had I been given that opportunity. Something which I desire strongly. In terms of Eden's future on my computer, I'll leave it at that.
post #3.This is an odd one. Here are notes that I made upon installing the application. I placed a notepad file in a subdirectory of my "games" directory to make it easy to find at a later time. In retrospect I guess that was wise. I don't even remember doing that.
<github link to ED-En>
ED Engineer installation provided no opportunity to choose a directory
Program is installed here:
C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\XRKBR9HZ.8EH\M5BC9NQR.R1T\eden...exe_b9c6c2d0b4f2eae5_0001.0001_none_20d0eabaa46ae1e8
and
C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\XRKBR9HZ.8EH\M5BC9NQR.R1T\eden..tion_b9c6c2d0b4f2eae5_0001.0001_5afcc207ecfe1763
The subdirectories below the one that I colored differently in the notes above all appear to be ED-En directories.
In my installation, the executable is in this same sub below the colored one, not in the Start Menu per se. That's an interesting difference from the one noted above. See:
In retrospect I'm not at all pleased about this way of doing things. No useful way to track the shortcut icon on the desktop (if there) or in the START Menu / tiles. Searching your drive(s) for EDEngineer will indeed find this directory and the files (I just tried it).
I'm a stickler for stuff like this. In particular, ED-Engineer has zero need for the fastest drive space on my computer. I would never have chosen to install it on C: had I been given that opportunity. Something which I desire strongly. In terms of Eden's future on my computer, I'll leave it at that.
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Six years ago, ED itself was actually the first program I encountered which tried the "hide its tracks" by installing itself to weird places in fragments and it really surprised me back then. If it was any other piece of software, I'd even have considered it malicious and gotten rid of it.Partially ninja'd - up there
This is an odd one. Here are notes that I made upon installing the application. I placed a notepad file in a subdirectory of my "games" directory to make it easy to find at a later time. In retrospect I guess that was wise. I don't even remember doing that.
<github link to ED-En>
ED Engineer installation provided no opportunity to choose a directory
Program is installed here:
C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\XRKBR9HZ.8EH\M5BC9NQR.R1T\eden...exe_b9c6c2d0b4f2eae5_0001.0001_none_20d0eabaa46ae1e8
and
C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\XRKBR9HZ.8EH\M5BC9NQR.R1T\eden..tion_b9c6c2d0b4f2eae5_0001.0001_5afcc207ecfe1763
The subdirectories below the one that I colored differently in the notes above all appear to be ED-En directories.
In my installation, the executable is in this same sub below the colored one, not in the Start Menu per se. That's an interesting difference from the one noted above. See:
In retrospect I'm not at all pleased about this way of doing things. No useful way to track the shortcut icon on the desktop (if there) or in the START Menu / tiles. Searching your drive(s) for EDEngineer will indeed find this directory and the files (I just tried it).
I'm a stickler for stuff like this. In particular, ED-Engineer has zero need for the fastest drive space on my computer. I would never have chosen to install it on C: had I been given that opportunity. Something which I desire strongly. In terms of Eden's future on my computer, I'll leave it at that.
Nowadays, this is almost a normal practice of many programs.
To this day I don't understand the reason behind it and still don't like it.
And when comes to EDEngineer, it's even more suspect as its uninstaller actually leaves quite a bit of a mess all around the place and in the registry. I guess I should be an optimist and never expect malice where incompetence is most likely, but still.
If you go to apos through the settings cog, it should list all installed apps and allow an uninstall from there. Not true for everything though.
Also, once you find your program in file explorer, you can right click it and select "open folder"
Also, once you find your program in file explorer, you can right click it and select "open folder"
I was invited to the closed beta back then. So I experienced it in its... umm.. unoptimized, let's say, form.The complete mess of MSFS2020 installation would really please you then.
At least some of those programs have enough decency to name themselves something serchable. (Small victories)
But when you have to find out which filenames a program is calling and search for them individually, that's where I'm calling bovine excrement.