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X-Plane 12 Real Weather Folder

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Hi Everybody,

I just noticed that my real weather folder has weather data dating back to last year, shouldn't this data get flushed? It's really starting to build up at over 3GB, just dumped the entire lot of them!

 

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Good eye. My folder is at 2.3 GB at the moment.

Maybe the data is retained for some kind of historical weather purposes when you select a past date?

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Guys, just delete the content of that folder before starting XP. Older datas are not needed.

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Might well be to account for historical weather, as Bjoern suggests, by creating local instances instead of always having to download it from a central repository.

 

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3 hours ago, cagarini said:

Might well be to account for historical weather, as Bjoern suggests, by creating local instances instead of always having to download it from a central repository.

 

Hi,

Not sure about that, if one misses many weeks of flying they'd be missing a ton of info. Over time if one flies everyday, that folder is going to build up to be extremely large, just on the chance you  may want to go back and use historical weather. This doesn't sound right to me, but I could be wrong.

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5 hours ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

Hi,

Not sure about that, if one misses many weeks of flying they'd be missing a ton of info. Over time if one flies everyday, that folder is going to build up to be extremely large, just on the chance you  may want to go back and use historical weather. This doesn't sound right to me, but I could be wrong.

I think you're more right than wrong... They probably simply forgot about cleaning the "garbage" on that folder, but I'm sure someone will now chime a warning at the Slack group 🙂

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9 hours ago, cagarini said:

Might well be to account for historical weather, as Bjoern suggests, by creating local instances instead of always having to download it from a central repository.

 

There was a discussion about that on the org and it’s not for creating historical weather. They stated they will automatically clean that folder in future. In the meantime you can just delete its content.

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Whether intended for "historical weather" or not - some people "complain" 😉 that they have historical weather, others (not XP-users specifically) want that feature so badly 😀 ...

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