Firstly I downloaded what was described as a setup of camera views for all different aircraft.

I chose to update the Asobo Cessna Caravan.

The camera views are 'word not allowed' so I want to restore then (camera.cfg).

Is there a way to quickly update my instalation.

If the mod overwrote default files then  uninstall the aircraft from Content Manager, and then reinstall in Content Manager. 

That should reinstate default files. 

Otherwise remove anything you added to the Community Folder regarding camera mods. 

Edited October 25, 20232 yr by Dazzlercee23

These camera files are normally just dropped into the Community folder, therefore, just removing the content from the Community folder is enough, as the original files from the Official folder will then come back into play.  If not, then you will have to do as Dazz says above, but in no way should it have overwritten the default camera views if you have simply dropped the new ones into the Community folder - it just takes precedence over the official / default files until they are removed.

If you try to uninstall / reinstall the aircraft without removing the new camera files, then the files in Community will still override the default ones and you will have achieved nothing.

Thanks    Silly me I overwrote the camera.cfg files for the aircraft in the One Store folder as there was NO DOCS with the download and not knowing any better. I had no idea that .cfg files could be added to the community folder.

I used content manager to remove all the cessna caravan aircraft lists (I tried the first one which didn't fix the problem) and then selected them from the not installed list and downloaded. Now all fixed.  I will now try copying the downloaded 'camera view' file to the community file.

Well that download is still rubbish.

I copied the download (folder named AIRCRAFT which contains many sub folders each one for a different aircraft) and 'fired up' MSFS and selected the Cessna Caravan and proceeded.

After loading about 75% (according to the bar bottom of screen) it stalled. I waited nearly 5 minutes and then gave up but had to go to Task Manager to kill the process.

 

Well after re reading the installation instructions I find that placing the downloaded file into the community folder will not do anything (well in my case it made MSFS 'hang' during loading). The files need to be copied to the MSFS aircraft folder as I tried firstly.

I have deep six'd the download.

 

Edited October 26, 20232 yr by Jarnie
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9 hours ago, Jarnie said:

Well after re reading the installation instructions I find that placing the downloaded file into the community folder will not do anything (well in my case it made MSFS 'hang' during loading). The files need to be copied to the MSFS aircraft folder as I tried firstly.

I have deep six'd the download.

 

I would be vary wary of any downloads that make you over-write the files in the official folder.  This simply isn't required, so I don't know why the dev asks for that.

Basically, any modded files dropped in the Community Folder will always take precedence over the official files, so not sure why he requires people to do that - strange!

At least you have it fixed.

Edited October 26, 20232 yr by bobcat999

17 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

 I don't know why the dev asks for that.

Possibly because he found a way that worked and did not bother to explore the alternatives.
Unless he is using several aliases, there are other freeware "developers" at flightsim.to who are suggesting the same method.

4 hours ago, Reader said:

Possibly because he found a way that worked and did not bother to explore the alternatives.
Unless he is using several aliases, there are other freeware "developers" at flightsim.to who are suggesting the same method.

A really BAD idea. Sure it works but it opens up a whole new can of worms. Maintaining your install could easily become a mess.

2 minutes ago, vgbaron said:

A really BAD idea.

Indeed, it is absolutely not "best practice" and leaves the default files open to all kinds of uninformed tinkering.
As clearly stated above, no MSFS user has any reason at all to alter anything in the Official folder.
When you open up a free for all, the occasional bad idea will surface.
In fairness to the author, his method does work and if backups are kept, there 
really shouldn't be a problem.

I use Archers improved camera positions from FS.to.  He normally picks good sensible improved positions, and they drop straight into the community folder.

Thanks everyone

So cockpit camera views (camera.cfg) can simply be copied to the community folder to work and taken precedence over the camera.cfg for that aircraft?

And what is the folder heirarchy?

Aircraft / 'folder name of the aircraft' / camera.cfg

 

5 hours ago, Jarnie said:

So cockpit camera views (camera.cfg) can simply be copied to the community folder to work and taken precedence over the camera.cfg for that aircraft?

No, the author wrote that themself.
If you want to add it to the Community folder, you need to put it into the exact file structure of the aircraft in question and create two .json files.
The better solution would be to find a "developer" who has done the job as it should be done and use their files instead.