Thanks, I did siome reasearch and rread your posts and understand a lot more now. I think the peoblem was that I treied tha Start Of Space Mission and itr took away all the manned vessaels. I tyried reinstalling and deleating Inspiraation folder with mixed results. Thanks again for all yyou dedication and work I think I got it now. I reread your instructions in more detail (should a' done that first)
I think what happened is I tried the Beginning of Space exploration mission and it deleted all the manned parts. I tried reinstalling all the modes and even deleted the Inspiration folder with mixed results. I never was able to install the OAB and other modes that seemed to set up a toggle for parts. I also looked at rewriting the parts scripts but that was beyond me. I got good at KSP 1 persistent files, the is a new learning curve and at 70 I'm not as quick on the uptake ;-)
Thank you ALL for you contestant dedication to this project and all your hard work, we Kerbanauts appreciate it! Tim