A Browser for MSFS addon fans
by the creator of MSFS Community Downloader
Stop downloading addon manually
WindSailor let you browse your favorite addon websites and will handle your downloads to do all the boring and repetitive stuff.
Finding the Community folder, unzipping the package, cleaning the old addon, copying the new one, WindSailor does all this for you.
Main functionalities:
- Addon websites browsing
- Community folder autodetection
- Download and install packages automatically
- Set custom installation folder
- Set custom installation folder per package (Addons linker compatible) (v0.4.0+)
WindSailor is in early stage of development, new functionalities will come soon!
Found a bug?
Have an idea of a cool functionality?
Wanna say "hi"?
Please come to the dev's Discord server.
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WindSailor is not affiliated with Microsoft, Flight Simulator, Flightsim.to, SimMarket, FS Nordic, and other flightsim actors in any way.
The software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringment. In no event shall the authors, copyright holder or the above quoted actors be liable for any claim, damage, or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software.
1 months ago
Ramblinmanbill
The biggest issue:
The big orange "nag bar." You include an X to close it, but it doesn't close. It just continues to prompt you to "consider becoming a patron." Why bother including the X if it cannot be closed? It's akin to flipping off your customer or making faces behind their back. It is rude and obnoxious.
Secondly:
Why does the entire app dim each time you click to download? Is it really necessary? Especially when the app doesn't reliably return to the last position before the dimming.
Now onto the third point:
It would be really nice to have checkboxes to build a queue of downloads rather than having to click the download icon, experience dimming, click download, undim, click download icon, dim, click download, undim, ad nauseam... you get the idea. This would be very helpful when retrieving many downloads during a reinstall (which can be very common with MSFS, or any sim for that matter) or when retrieving your downloads after data loss due to a drive or NAS failure. This will greatly enhance the usefulness of your app. Right now, the aforementioned dimming/undimming nonsense slows this process down greatly, and I believe it really doesn't fit the true nature of why you put the app together in the first place. One might as well just go straight to the website. Since being a premium member is required to use the feature in the app, the "speed benefit" is truly nonexistent, as premium members don't have a wait time or as many "ad breaks."
Anyhow, that's my two cents. A promising start to a hopefully very useful app.
2 months ago
SonjaMichelle
4 months ago
flusiflo
4 months ago
jaydyson1
This appears when trying to launch Windsailor.
6 months ago
6 months ago
jaydyson1
PerpetualOmega
9 months ago
InfiniteWisdom
every time i tried to install it, the page Crash and says....
Exception Occurred
The specified path or the file name or both are too long. The full file name must be less than 260 characters and the directory name
It must be inside 248
some buddy can help me?
Sorry for my bad English i hope you could understand
9 months ago
MarcelloMontal
Can you please add an option to change the DNS settings in the program so pihole users can bypass their pihole?
1 years ago
matterno
I can't download anything anymore because of a new AdBlock popup... 😞
1 years ago
matterno
Wishlist:
Regarding editing packages custom installation folders, can we please have a search feature, because the list of folders and addons is becoming very large over time and therefore getting harder to find a specific entry? Thanks.
1 years ago
agreed
1 years ago
InfiniteWisdom
DownedAviator
Great tool, very usefull and works 1a
One suggestion:
The dialog to edit the folder mappings for already downloaded addons.
Is it possible to make it a table with addon and path side by side and an option to sort by path. I have moved a folder and don't like to edit the export file
1 years ago
goSammy1971
I loved using this app and have had it since its original release. However as of late i'm constantly getting an error message when attempting to access flightsim.to :
"Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit."
Any ideas on how to fix this issue? Do i need to clear the cache in the app - and if so how can i do it? I tried reinstalling the app but to no success.
[SOLVED]:
- close WindSailor
- go to C:\Users\[your name]\AppData\Roaming\WindSailor
- rename or delete the chrome folder
- restart WindSailor
1 years ago
Loopy
Anyone else getting the following error for ~the last week?:
Bad RequestYour browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.
1 years ago
Im getting that error, seems like im not the only one.
1 years ago
makina323
FractalSystems
Hi thank you for your tool it is really great. is there a possibility to implement a Option so it is possible to disable that everytime you donwload something the Folder opens?
1 years ago
The folder should only open if it's not a MSFS addon so that you know you have to do something with it.
1 years ago
nicolasconstant
Fabonymous
Loving this togetehr with the MSFS community downloader.
However there's one little request I have, n that is to enable the first-start menu somewhere in case you'd want to easily switch sites/provider.
But - thanks for a great tool in any case!
2 years ago
Spiffle