Cannot install a livery in Majestic Dash 8

[tonymerry 0]

 Being not too clever with pc's, I am having trouble installing the
> new purple livery for the Majestic Dash 8. I had Ron Atwood's excellent livery 
> installed in my FSX set up without any problems, but having invested 
> in a new p.c I have transferred to running P3Dv4 in W10. i Have downloaded 
> the file for P3Dv4 and put the script into the c:\Program 
> Files\Lockheed 
> Martin\Prepar3Dv$\simobjects\airplanes\mjc8q400\aircraft.cfg location, 
> but when I try to save it, I get a message"You do not have permission 
> to open this file, see the owner of the file or an administrator to 
> obtain permission". I am sure that out there are people a lot more competent with 
> p.c's and would be most grateful if someone could suggest a solution to 
> the problem, as I love the purple livery. Why Majestic haven't updated 
> the Flybe livery I do not know. 
> Thanks in anticipation..    Tony Merry 

[jimcarrel 688]

Is your FSX install in C:\Program Files ( you said you had no problem with FSX), Windows 10 is a lot more picky about letting you do stuff in the C:\Program Files folder, especially if your not running the account not logged in as administrator. (that might be your problem). Best thing to do is reboot. You may just have a permission glitch and the reboot will clear it.

A lot of potential problems can be alleviated by not installing into C:\ Program Files,, just put P3D in it's own folder.  

 

[tonymerry 0]

Thanks Jim I'll try that.

Regards Tony

[DaveCT2003 1,820]

Tony,

 

Can you provide a link to the scenery that has a script?  I've not seen one for the Dash and would love to see it.

Many thanks.

 

[jimcarrel 688]

Dave, I think "script" was a misnomer. I think he was trying to add the livery into the aircraft.cfg.

[Ron Attwood 3,464]

As the painter, Tony got in touch with me and I told him to shove off!

Not really.

'Script' got me going too. I've asked him to disable UAC because what else is there that would stop him editing a .cfg? Nuffin!

Tony, tell me you unzipped the folder.

@Dave. Here's the paint in question LINK

It the same on AVSIM

[DaveCT2003 1,820]

LOL, thanks brother Ron!

I have to say that I've long had and love that livery, and didn't realize you were the one who painted it!  Thanks, great work Ron!

 

[Ron Attwood 3,464]

You haven't had mine for long, I only did it a month ago. It IS different though, as it's based in Scotland somewhere it is plastered with thistles! Looks nice. :)

[DaveCT2003 1,820]

28 minutes ago, Ron Attwood said:

You haven't had mine for long, I only did it a month ago. It IS different though, as it's based in Scotland somewhere it is plastered with thistles! Looks nice. :)

Ah, I was thinking it was the one that's been available for quite some time.  I'm looking forward to checking it out!

 

[crosswind 825]

@Ron,

 

Thanks for giving TonnyMerry a hand.

 

Cheers

[Ron Attwood 3,464]

Not much of a hand I'm afraid.

[DaveCT2003 1,820]

 

 

 

[_Gladius_ 24]

This is a windows 10 issue.  I ran into this with FSX:SE.  I had to completely uninstall FSX, and run the installer as an administrator.

you can try going into the specific folders and changing the owner to your profile. That may solve the problem, but it did not work in my case.

[tonymerry 0]

Thanks for all the advice guys. Yes, sorry about using the term "script" I was putting the wording as per Ron's instructions into the cfg file. Having spent the last 3 months setting everything up into P3Dv4,  and having tried all the various suggestions without success, I am not going to reboot,or reinstall P3D, at this time, for the sake of one livery.

I have a contact who is a P.C wizard, so will invoke his expertise at some point.

Thanks again   Tony Merry

[Ron Attwood 3,464]

Let us know what the wizard says.