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A word of warning about the freeware Sofia airport

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Guest panda234

If you're into organizing your folders and files you might want to be careful of this. It installs via an executable that dosn't create a new subdirectory in your addon directory but just dumps the scenery and texture files into the repspective addon/scenery and addon/texture directories. Nothing seems to get added to the scenery.cfg, but I guess if they're in the main folder there is no requirement for an entry. Some of the files have fairly common names--like parking.bgl--so there is a possibility of overwriting some existing files also. Maybe I'm a compulsive organizer but this post is for any other compulsive organizers that may be out there. :-)EDIT: But sitting here at the gate, I have to say it does look like a nice airport. Maybe I messed up the install or something...billg

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Guest panda234

Hi Andrew. I did that already but thought I'd post here as well to give a heads up. billg

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Guest wildfire563

Hence why I never install an executable to FS9 directly.Thomas

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Absolutely..A good installer is nice, but there is no standard so I always install to a temp location and see what folders it creates.Nothing worse than not knowing what the installer has done..CheersLungs

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Just installed this scenery with no problem. The automatic installer gave me the option of extracting the files to a temp folder. Before placing the extracted in their folders I "add" them to the original download file using Winzip and then delete the original auto-installer .exe file so I don't have to fool with the auto-installer again.

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