Last week, I decided to get rid of the planes I was not using in my Simobjects/airplane folder.  I really deleted many of them that just were downloaded (all free ones) because they looked interesting, but remained UNUSED. Using P3dv5.4.

Anyway, I notice that many 737's (Legacy) in my sim now have HALF WINGS!  Obviously, I deleted a file that affects the wings on many of my 737's.  Would anyone have an idea which file I inadvertently deleted?  It's too late anyway because I emptied my recycle bin.  Just curious if there's some way I could acquire that file.

Edited November 26, 20241 yr by spilok

redownload the content parts from your P3D account and repair I guess?

@spilok, no backup to restore from? 😳

4 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

@spilok, no backup to restore from? 😳

No.  I don't want to do a Windows Restore because of so many things I have done since that stupid deletion I did on my P3d airplanes.  But I do have a plan, and I will comment here if it works.  Thanks.

4 hours ago, Antonov22 said:

redownload the content parts from your P3D account and repair I guess?

That didn't work.  But I'm working on something.  Will comment back soon.

8 hours ago, spilok said:

No.  I don't want to do a Windows Restore because of so many things I have done since that stupid deletion I did on my P3d airplanes.  But I do have a plan, and I will comment here if it works.  Thanks.

I didn’t mention Windows. AOMEI Backupper has a feature where you can mount the backup and copy individual files. So easy and it’s helped me on several occasions.

15 hours ago, spilok said:

I notice that many 737's (Legacy) in my sim now have HALF WINGS!

Maybe not even a result of the deletion but maybe something changed on the rig to break registration. Sometimes one has installed the plane 4 years ago and changed the drive or gpu and some copy protection can no longer identify your rig.

How about just reinstall this plane. Make sure to keep the entries in aircraft.cfg of your liveries. If you keep the folder of the 737 aircraft the liveries should remain untouched by reinstalling the plane. Only the aircraft.cfg will be replaced by the default one.

Edited November 27, 20241 yr by blaunarwal

5 hours ago, blaunarwal said:

Maybe not even a result of the deletion but maybe something changed on the rig to break registration. Sometimes one has installed the plane 4 years ago and changed the drive or gpu and some copy protection can no longer identify your rig.

How about just reinstall this plane. Make sure to keep the entries in aircraft.cfg of your liveries. If you keep the folder of the 737 aircraft the liveries should remain untouched by reinstalling the plane. Only the aircraft.cfg will be replaced by the default one.

I tried reinstalling Client, Content, and Scenery.  Half wings on all 737-700,800, and 900 series that I try to download.  All 737 200,400,500,600 are ok.

I think I may have deleted the DEFAULT 737 by mistake.  Perhaps that's what's doing it.  Is it possible to get a copy of the P3d V5.4 DEFAULT 737 somewhere?  I really don't know what else could be causing this phenomenon.

Thanks.

ps.  Oh yes, the 757 aircraft were also affected by this "half wing" syndrome.

Edited November 27, 20241 yr by spilok

What's the use of a recycle bin if you empty it ? I keep deleted file for at least 6 months.

Are those planes with half wings from TDS(Tenkuu Development Studios)?

TDS has some silly model protection built in so if you change anything using a model editor half of the wings won't display.

I still don't understand how deleting some planes would affect the remaining ones, though.

Dave

7 hours ago, willy647 said:

What's the use of a recycle bin if you empty it ? I keep deleted file for at least 6 months.

Live and Learn.

6 hours ago, dave2013 said:

Are those planes with half wings from TDS(Tenkuu Development Studios)?

TDS has some silly model protection built in so if you change anything using a model editor half of the wings won't display.

I still don't understand how deleting some planes would affect the remaining ones, though.

Dave

There pretty much all by Hiroshi Igami.  That's what I read under all of them.  How can I correct that?

15 hours ago, spilok said:

I think I may have deleted the DEFAULT 737 by mistake.

That is not a content of P3D5. This was FSX i think.

7 hours ago, spilok said:

There pretty much all by Hiroshi Igami.

Then reinstall the TDS planes.

I have deleted all TDS planes and tried to install one afterwards.  I got the same issue of no wings on the plane.

I did find out though that this is a common occurrence and not just me.  Here's what I found from years ago on AVSIM and other sites from forum members.  This should appear in the planes config:

// WARNING NEVER TAKE OFF "FREEWARE_(C)_TDS_16AUG2013" from title=        -------------------------
// If you do those , wings will be gone and other unexpected things will happen.            |
// Title must be under 127 character since FSX will cause error when exceed.                |
 

I checked and that line is indeed in the TDS config.  However, the issue still persists with any TDS planes that are freshly downloaded.  

I'll keep searching for a solution.

 

Edited November 28, 20241 yr by spilok

19 hours ago, spilok said:

I checked and that line is indeed in the TDS config.  However, the issue still persists with any TDS planes that are freshly downloaded.  

That's quite odd.  I've modified TDS models and had this happen, but then just reverted to the original model and the wings reappeared.

I don't use TDS any more as their models' attached lights don't work right and I can't change them.  I posted on their facebook page a while back and asked them to remove the landing and taxi lights from their models - the reply was not friendly, and they refused.

It's a shame as the models are very nice.

Dave