TE Netherlands - updated

[GSalden 4,651]

3 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

Gerard, theres a setting in FTX Central that allows you to place orbx scenery at a specific place in scenery.cfg

Hi Kevin, can I devide Orbx scenery over multiple places with that settings. I remember ( not sure ) that all Orbx scenery stays together.

[tymk 105]

10 minutes ago, GSalden said:

FTX Central puts all Orbx scenery automatically at the top of the library.

Have you tried using the "FTX entries should be inserted below" option in FTXC settings? I always use one scenery entry that must be above Orbx as an "anchor" and set FTX to insert its entries below it, then I place all other stuff above it. Using this method, other installers normally place their entries above my "anchor" and FTXC keeps its entries below it.

HTH,

Tym

 

Edited March 2, 2019 by tymk
Kevin beat me to it ;-)

[tymk 105]

The only other option is the placement of openLC entries, so you can keep these separate, but other than that, the Orbx entries do stay together.

[vc10man 732]

Help please!! Why has my C:\ drive which had a 110Gb free space last night before I started the TE Netherlands download, all of a sudden gone to red showing less than 20Gb space remaining when I set that Orbx TE Netherlands to install in a 1TB free space backup drive?

If you guys can shed light on this major headache for me, I'd be grateful, otherwise it's time to shed TE Netherlands in the bib if this is what it does!!!

[tymk 105]

5 minutes ago, vc10man said:

Help please!! Why has my C:\ drive which had a 110Gb free space last night before I started the TE Netherlands download, all of a sudden gone to red showing less than 20Gb space remaining when I set that Orbx TE Netherlands to install in a 1TB free space backup drive? 

If you guys can shed light on this major headache for me, I'd be grateful, otherwise it's time to shed TE Netherlands in the bib if this is what it does!!!

I don't think you can set it to install on another drive, Orbx scenery always goes into your P3D installation folder. I suspect you only moved the temp location (which is where the installer keeps the downloaded files during installation).

They are working on an FTX Central update to enable installing scenery packages on different drives (which is becoming pretty much necessary due to the size of the TE products), but for the time being, you'll probably need to move TE NL manually from the Orbx folder within the P3D folder to the separate drive and use the symbolic link method.

Tym

Edited March 2, 2019 by tymk

[virtualstuff 750]

1 hour ago, vc10man said:

Help please!! Why has my C:\ drive which had a 110Gb free space last night before I started the TE Netherlands download, all of a sudden gone to red showing less than 20Gb space remaining when I set that Orbx TE Netherlands to install in a 1TB free space backup drive?

If you guys can shed light on this major headache for me, I'd be grateful, otherwise it's time to shed TE Netherlands in the bib if this is what it does!!!

Pretty easy to do with a symbolic link 😉

[kevinfirth 1,392]

1 hour ago, GSalden said:

Hi Kevin, can I devide Orbx scenery over multiple places with that settings. I remember ( not sure ) that all Orbx scenery stays together.

No you cant divide it up into multiple parts in scenery.cfg using FTX central.  I place mine above bathemetry with FTXC then use LorbySI addon manager to make further changes :)

[kevinfirth 1,392]

5 minutes ago, awf said:

Pretty easy to do with a symbolic link 😉

Yes symbolic links will work.  You can either use a single link to the Orbx folder location to put all the Orbx scenery on a different drive, but you could easily use further symbolic links to cause different folders within that to be installed in completely separate drives as well.  It can be as complicated or as simple as you want to make it.

[vc10man 732]

Kevin, the enlightener, thanks for those words of encouragement.

Next question, please talk me through this 'symbolic link'. Where do i either download it or if not required, how do I implement it? Do i have to Orbx's Forums to get a files, etc, etc? Thanks if you can 'enlighten' me further.

[kevinfirth 1,392]

20 minutes ago, vc10man said:

Kevin, the enlightener, thanks for those words of encouragement.

Next question, please talk me through this 'symbolic link'. Where do i either download it or if not required, how do I implement it? Do i have to Orbx's Forums to get a files, etc, etc? Thanks if you can 'enlighten' me further.

Its remarkably easy, as I recall, although I dont remember how I did it now 😛 Google will be your friend here (I'm on my phone so cant look a great deal up)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.maketecheasier.com/create-symbolic-links-windows10/%3famp

 

If you are a member of Orbx forums there is a tutorial there showing how to set up a symbolic link.

Edited March 2, 2019 by kevinfirth
Link added

[JJJackson 22]

I would wait a while, as a NEW version of FTXCentral is on it´s way very soon  and the new Central will allow you to place ORBX-products where you like, so no need for symbolic links that can mess tings up if you don´t know what you are doing. Have a little patience. 😉

Jack

the Swede in Spain

[vc10man 732]

Thanks a bunch, Kevin. Please, do not drain your mobile.

Will mosey over and do the necessary. Thanks to you and @tymk  too +    @awf

Edited March 2, 2019 by vc10man

[vc10man 732]

29 minutes ago, JJJackson said:

I would wait a while, as a NEW version of FTXCentral is on it´s way very soon  and the new Central will allow you to place ORBX-products where you like, so no need for symbolic links that can mess tings up if you don´t know what you are doing. Have a little patience. 😉

Jack

the Swede in Spain

Thank you also for that Jack in Spain. Hope it's not too wintry there at the moment. Love Orbx's Arlanda Stockholm airport.

Edited March 2, 2019 by vc10man

[virtualstuff 750]

6 minutes ago, vc10man said:

Thanks a bunch, Kevin. Please, do not drain your mobile.

Will mosey over and do the necessary. Thanks to you and @tymk  too +    @awf

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html

With this software tool it's as easy as creating a folder map within explorer -;)

[vc10man 732]

10 minutes ago, awf said:

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html

With this software tool it's as easy as creating a folder map within explorer -;)

Thank you, again, for that. At this rate I am rapidly running out of IOUs to thank so many helpful guys here.👍

Much appreciated. I'll have to study that carefully to see how it's done.