Rafa,For you and others who've been following this thread, I wanted to mention that I was actually able to get the author of this thread, "gfurm", up and running via personal email correspondence. Though this might not solve your problem Rafa, I thought I'd post an edited version of my email to him here for those who may be having similar difficulties while using "external" drives for their cache locations. It involves a clean re-install to the default C:\ drive locations for troubleshooting purposes. Some people's problems may be more advanced of naturally, but as it helped the author of this thread with his difficulty, I thought I should post it here...The correspondence reads as thus:"My instinct is that either one of two (or both) things may be causing the problem:1. That TP doesn't (for whatever reason) like being on an "external" F:\ drive as the TP cache and "TileProxy Photoreal World" folders home or...2. That "something" went wrong with the initial installation (like external drive and the TP drivers not communicating over the drive connection). That said, I have suggested that other users who could not get TP up and going should simply do a complete uninstall and a clean re-install, and several have had great success. Why? I don't really know, but my theory is that when TP doesn't work right at first, and then downloads thousands of "corrupt" tiles at a given location, and the user continues to try and fix the problem while all the while re-booting TP in that same location, they're just spinning their wheels reloading corrupt data. Now I assume that you chose the external drive F:\ because you wanted to conserve precious drive space on the laptop (usually C:\ drive). A good way that you can test whether the problem is indeed your system simply having some unforeseen "incompatibility" with TP or that the F:\ drive problem is really the culprit is simple: Un-install the current installation and re-install using the default TP cache and "TileProxy Photoreal World" locations the installer suggests...i.e. "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games". "This will do two things that may illuminate the problem. One, it will test if the initial installation that specified F:\ drive for the cache folders has some kind of "systematic" incompatibility with your setup (who knows why!?) , and two, if their was some "corruption" of the already downloaded data you keep trying to load by loading fresh tiles from the internet."To try the "uninstall/re-install clean" idea, proceed as follows:1. Go to: "Start>All Programs>TileProxy>Uninstall TileProxy and Data" and follow the prompts.2. Afterward, go into your FSX root folder (should be "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X" and if there is still a "TileProxy" folder within it manually delete the folder. 3. Reboot4. Install a new TP Beta 8 version using all the default cache folder locations.5. Place my latest pre-configured ProxyUser.ini file (available at "Step 2"at www.edtruthan.com/tileproxy/tutorial ) for FS in the new TP root folder in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X"6. Boot TP and FSX and see if it works. (Change the map service if you wish of course)"A simple as it sounds, this entire exercise will only take a few minutes of your time and will at least narrow down whether the problem you've been having is an "external drive" issue, or a "system issue". If the latter remains true, at least you'll have a "default" C:\ drive installation with which to proceed with further troubleshooting."If a lack of C:\ drive space is an issue you can always periodically clean out the "cache.servivce.x" and "TileProxy Photoreal World" folders as you troubleshoot along to keep the file size down, which should be done ANYWAY while troubleshooting any TP difficulties so you don't end up loading any "corrupt" files over and over."Users should also be aware that during installation, the installer usually points the TP default ProxyUser.ini file it creates to: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\cache.service1" because the "Microsoft Games" folder already exists in most users installations and thus requires no additional folder creation on a particular users part. My pre-configured tutorial ini file points there too. But remember! If you decide to move your cache locations AFTER INSTALLATION, and subsequently point your proxyuser.ini file to a new location, you must MANUALLY add the "parent" cache folder you point it to..(not the "cache.service1" folders, because TP will generate those upon boot...but the parent folder JUST ABOVE them). For instance, say you want to change to F:/ drive for your cache locations and you you accordingly change the respective Service Example entries to look like this:Service Example 1"cache_folder=F:\TPCache\cache.service1""...then you simply need to MANUALLY create a folder named "TP Cache" on your F:/ drive for TP to work right. Remember, you won't need to create the "cache.service1" folders, because TP will generate those upon boot."In any case I have found time and time again that a clean, (and careful) un-install followed by a clean (and careful) re-install (especially to the default C:/ locations) often works wonders. At least if you get TP to work with default cache locations you know it CAN work with your system, then all you have to do is solve the cross-drive issue if you MUST use another drive due to space considerations, fragmentation issues, etc..."-Ed Truthan

herbiegoes how did you do this?

To stop pre-loading all I did was set min_lod > max_lod as shown below (this is mentioned in the Tileproxy Manual under "Parameters in the [Tileproxy] section":# Lowest LOD ring to automatically preload tiles for. Must not be lower than 8.preload_min_lod=11# Lowest LOD ring to automatically preload tiles for. Must not be higher than 17.preload_max_lod=10Instead of starting Tileproxy prior to starting FSX, I started FSX first, and then I started Tileproxy just prior to loading my flight in FSX.I am currently using:Gateway E6300Intel P4 3.0 Ghz3GB RAMWin XPI am currently experimenting with FS9 to see if I can get better performance. With FS9 I observed successfully loaded tiles immediately, although I am getting some "black tiles".

thanks Ed for that email trail... thanks Herbiegoes too for your suggestions.i will try this in the next few days and see how it goes...FYI, i have Win XP SP2 System on C drive,my FSX is installed on G drive in G:\GAMES\FSXand Tile Proxy instalalled on F drive.None of them are external drives, they are all internal on my PC. The initial screen of TP does suggest its found the right drive volumes for both FSX.exe and TP. But I can see why this might still cause problems.I will try to install TP in the default FSX folder, i.e. G:\GAMES\FSX...if that doesn't work, i will consider uninstalling FSX completely and installing it in my C drive default location... but that might take more time.Thanks once again...

woo hoo...its looking good... relinstalled TP in G:\GAMES\FSXeverythign default, did not change a thing...only thing changed was the ini file to access yahoo maps!the flight is now taking ages to load...tile access up to 12631 at 0.1 tiles per second...its still not loaded yet, been about 10 minute...GIDDYUP!!! this has gotta be a good sign...

Its working....57odd thousand tiles, access at 100 per second...Adelaide has never looked better!!!Thanks you all for you help... esp Ed, herbiegoes and also Christian for creating this awesome app.PS:Ed, it may be worth on your install page noting this, and stating it best it install in the default locations of FSX... i am not sure if this a common issue or more an once off.as stated, i had windows system on C drivegames on G drive (incl FSX)and did have TP on a clean F drive.Now, i have TP in G:\Games\FSX\TileProxyand the cache inG:\Gamesas per the default suggestions.ok... i am ready to take off...

That seems strange but I didn't get any emails or PMs from Truthan. Why would he say that he solved my problem when in fact he didn't even contact me is beyond me.I'll try his suggestions anyway to see if it works but I'd like to get an explanation why he said what he said.

gfurm,Hmmm. I guess I confused you with another person who'd emailed me from the tutorial link. I had asked him if this was his post...(as his TP error notices were similar to yours)...and he said it was. Guess not. Anyway...glad it helped Rafa to get up and rockin! I'll try to incorporate a sub-page at the tutorial addresssing the issues of the "re-install to default", "cross drive issues" troubleshooting idea. At least it helps get a user on a footing of knowing whether their problem is simply a simple install/drive glitch or something more serious. -Ed

Yes, many thanks once again Ed... hopefully it fixes up gfurm too...i am now going to move everything off my G drive onto the unused F drive and leave G just for FSX and TP.

I tried what Ed said and IT WORKS. Left everything on drive D: where I have FSX installed and it works. It loads quickly as well, about 5 minutes. Tried florida keys flight from Ed website and it looks great.Thanks for solution.

I tried what Ed said and IT WORKS. Left everything on drive D: where I have FSX installed and it works. It loads quickly as well, about 5 minutes. Tried florida keys flight from Ed website and it looks great.Thanks for solution.

AWESOME....