In Settings I discovered that the x-plane 11 path was set to a second version of x-plane that I have loaded
In trying to update this path I notice that the manual path does not allow for a simple user/rusty/x-plane 11/ but is looking for an additional pathway
now the x-plane 11 shows the orange need update flag - ran the update and all worked from that point onward, seems that in the original reload the settings path to x-plane got set to my second install rather than the main install. Wonder why all the crashed occurred - but now all looks good on the 2201 cycle.
Many thanks for the quick response and all the help to resolve this issue.