I have posted about this before - but some time ago, and the problem is still there. I don't know if anyone can help me solve it. The problem is that outside of two folders I use for scenery, AFCAD2 does not find a whole load of airports that are located in other folders. The two folders it does see are 1. "FS9/Addon Scenery" - which I reserve for single AFCAD files not present anywhere else and 2. "FS9/Addon Scenery 2" - a folder I use for all my addon scenery from AVSIM and so on (stands at almost 50GBs, 650,000 files now!). But airports in folders like FS9/Aerosoft, FS9/UK2000 and so on - AFCAD2 ignores these. When I used Windows XP things were OK, but not in Windows 7 x64 apparently (though the change of OS may be irrelevant).I have tried writing a batch script and copying all AFCADs outside the two folders AFCAD2 recognises to a subfolder of FS9/Addon Scenery 2 ("FS9/Addon Scenery 2/AFCADs/scenery") but still no joy. I have deleted my AFCAD2 setup and installed a new copy - it searches for airports when I first run it but still doesn't find these problem airports when I search for an ICAO code. If I use AFCAD2 to open an AFCAD 'from a specific file' and choose one of the 'problem' AFCADs, it opens it just fine. So why won't it find it when I use the ICAO search facility - the results only show the 'Stock' file.Don't reckon I'm going to crack this one. It is very odd to me that the AFCAD2 programme will find an AFCAD file located in, for example, FS9/Addon Scenery 2/CYYZ/scenery but not in FS9/Addon Scenery 2/AFCADs/scenery - the latter is where I have made a copy of all the 'external' AFCAD files, as I say. (The folder's not activated in FS9 of course, although, as a test, I tried activating it in FS (and then starting/closing FS9) - just in case that made a difference to AFCAD2, but it didn't. It doesn't find the files whether the folder is active in FS9 or not). I could perhaps move all the AFCAD files out of the Aerosoft/UK2000 etc. etc folders and put them into an active folder that AFCAD2 already recognises, but that's a bit drastic I feel - not sure what else that might mess up.Maybe someone has some fresh ideas though. Thanks,Martin

Martin,I believe it's time for you to give up the past and move on to the future, or at least the present.ADE9X is the present, and the future.One huge advantage to ADE9X over Afcad2.21 is that it is still being developed and supported.Afcad was never finished, it is a Beta program, and Vista and Win 7 where never considered for it, I would think.I can't help you with your problem, but do hope that you give AE9X a try, it's time.regards,Joe

Hi,I use ADE9x a lot, but use AFCAD2 too.. Maybe I should only use ADE - case of habit really,M.

When you try to open, do you not get the choice to open afcad "From Specific File"? I use it all the time because I don't use Add-on Scenery for afcads. If you do, put a dot in the radio button and then you can select Open File and then the required folder.Colin B

What happens if you have or create a shortcut to AFCAD2 with an advanced property set to run as admin? Some of those folders may be protected from where you have afcad.exe installed. Win 7 has stricter access rules and turning off UAC does not disable all of them.If the path to your afcad folders is correct in your scenery.cfg and the afcad files are in the scenery folder under those you should be all set.

I use ADE9x a lot, but use AFCAD2 too.. Maybe I should only use ADE - case of habit really,

Ronzie is right. AFCAD v2 belongs to the dark ages. If you want something that works like AFCAD (rather than ADE) you should use AFX.There are known problems with AFCAD that could be causing the problems you experience. I believe there is a limit to the number of scenery layers it will scan. This can be compounded by the fact (that I read recently, and this surprised me!) that it actually scans scenery layers that aren't in your scenery.cfg file.I think people labour on with AFCAD v2 because it is free, but it really won't do what is need these days and will actually remove features from ADE9 and AFX files without a whisper, causing all sorts of problems. It was a great piece of software for its time, but that time has gone.ADE9 is free of course (and I commend the developers for that), but a lot of people struggle with the learning curve as it is so powerful and feature-filled. But if you want something you can dip into quickly to make a few changes as you would with AFCAD, I would suggest using AFX. Don't be misled by the name, it works for FS9 and FSX.John

Hi.I suspect if everything was OK with XP that the problem lies in some incompatibility between Afcad 2 and Win7 so you may be on the proverbial hiding to nowhere.I still use Afcad 2.21 alongside ADE9X as I'm lazy and some of the free addons I have must have been made in Afcad221 which occasionally adds errors to the airport. In some cases this means that ADE9X can't recompile if you try altering them (on account of the hidden error). It's easier to avoid the problem by using the old application than it is to try tracking the error down.I haven't tried AFX but I think that could be your solution.Out of interest, what prompted the change from XP to Win7?Regards,D

Martin,I believe it's time for you to give up the past and move on to the future, or at least the present.ADE9X is the present, and the future.One huge advantage to ADE9X over Afcad2.21 is that it is still being developed and supported.Afcad was never finished, it is a Beta program, and Vista and Win 7 where never considered for it, I would think.I can't help you with your problem, but do hope that you give AE9X a try, it's time.regards,Joe

I just downloaded and installed ADE. Was very easy to update my airport but when I go to compile the file into a bgl the program just hangs and I have to go into task mgr to end Am running windows7 64. Any ideas I might try. Thanks

Dave,I got a new PC. With Windows 7 I no longer get 'Out of Memory' errors - FS9 runs superbly on this new machine.AFX is payware, no? (One difference with AFCAD2!). The great thing about AFACD2 is that it will search for an input ICAO code and list all airports - I don't see that ADE9X does that. I suppose if AFACD2 is going to play up like this now, I'll investigate AFX..M.

BTW (forgot to add) - running shortcut in compatibility mode and/or as administrator doesn't help I'm afraid.For all the explanations here (thanks again) nothing would explain why, if I add all the missing AFCADs to a subfolder of Addon Scenery, AFCAD2 still doesn't find them - it finds all other AFCADs in all other subfolders of Addon Scenery. It doesn't make sense..M.