I have been transferring all my scenery off my FSX SSD on to a 3TB disk

 

Im a bit confused about the scenery/world/scenery folder. Since this is not activated in the library is it okay to drag it across to my 3TB disk? will it work there ?

 

thanks for replies

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I also have been moving lots of stuff from FSX to another drive. I have not moved the S\W\S folder yet,but when I do,I will probably "point" to it in the fsx.cfg like this... 

 

Under the "Main" section

 

SimobjectPaths.16=G:\FSX\PAD AC
SimObjectPaths.17=G:\FSX\Scenery\World\Scenery

 

Should work fine,everything else has...By the way,you may want to right click the folder and check it,s size.It may not be large enough to make much difference.Mine is only 551mbs..... 

My world/texture folder is 9gb!

 

In your example above is G your new drive?

Those folders are part of FSX's scenery.cfg file. If you move them, FSX will never find them unless you edit scenery.cfg located in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX\ folder.

 

Keep in mind that 'ProgramData' is a hidden folder.

 

This is the related entry:

 

[Area.001]
Title=Default Terrain
Local=Scenery\World
Texture_ID=1
Layer=1
Active=TRUE
Required=TRUE

 

Just change 'Local=' to the new path so FSX can find it. You can do this to any scenery located there.

Great answers these will help

 

namco, if I move scenery/ world to my D drive (3T) do I replace "local" with D?

 

sorry for the simple questions 

Replace Local=Scenery\World with Local=D:\Scenery\World if you put the scenery in the ROOT of the drive (D:\).

 

If you put it inside D:\FSX_Default (as an example), Local will be Local=D:\FSX_Default\Scenery\World

 

Just make sure the path points to the folder where the "scenery" folder is located. In this case it can be a tad confusing as there are TWO scenery folders, but only one of them contains the BGL files and that's the one that matters.

 

scenery\world\scenery <--- this last one is where the files are and that's the one FSX needs to know the location.

 

Hope i could help and it's not TOO confusing

"Replace Local=Scenery\World with Local=D:\Scenery\World if you put the scenery in the ROOT of the drive (D:\)."

 

thats it buddy, thats where it will go. Learning something new again :-)

one more question. In the world scenery there is also a texture folder

 

So do I drag the whole world folder over with scenery/texture?

 

in other words Im not sure what folders to drag over to new 3T drive

Yes, the scenery and texture folders are part of the same.

 

Some sceneries will only have a 'scenery' folder and none has only a 'texture' folder. Either both or just 'scenery'.

I really don't know the answer to this, so I'm just asking

 

Isn't one potential problem with moving scenery and texture folders that 3rd-party scenery installers won't be able to find them? You can certainly point FSX to the new location by editing the fsx.cfg, but what about other installers that add files to folders like Scenery/World/scenery and Scenery/Global/scenery?

 

Thanks.

just used this little gem to move 26gb simobject files off my FSX ssd onto a hard drive and works like a charm!

 

http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm

 

No reason why a junction point cant be created with scenery/world/ scenery as well and no need to modify FSX.CFG