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I'm having a problem in which a small number of my aircraft are appearing under the wrong publisher. This seems to be occurring when I have aircraft of the same type, but by different publishers. For example, I have the payware Vickers Viscount 800 by Just Flight, but also a freeware Vickers Viscount 800 by Jens Kristensen ("JBK"). The latter appears under "JBK" as it should, but the Just Flight Viscount also appears under "JBK"! Yet when I open the aircraft configuration file for the Just Flight Viscount, there is a line for every livery that says "ui_createdby=Just Flight". And in the aircraft config file for the JBK Viscount has a line for every livery that says "ui_createdby=JBK"! So it just doesn't make any sense that the two should appear under the same publisher. Another example: I have a BAe 146-200 by Just Flight, and a BAe 146-200 by Premier Aircraft Design. Both lots of aircraft appear under Premier Aircraft Design! Yet I have a Just Flight BAe 146-300, and that appears under "Just Flight" as it should. Perhaps it helps that I don't have a PAD 146-300 (I think they've only done the 146-100 and 146-200). Once again, the "ui_createdby" line in the aircraft config file is correct in both cases. Here is yet another puzzle: I have British Aerospace Jetstream 31s by both Premier Aircraft Design and Virtualcol. The PAD Jetstream 31 appears under "Premier Aircraft Design", but the Virtualcol Jetstream 31 does not appear under either "Premier Aircraft Design" or "Virtualcol FS Software"! Yet if I select "British Aerospace" in the "Aircraft manufacturer" menu, then both the PAD and Virtualcol Jetstreams appear. Again, the correct "ui_createdby" line is in the aircraft config files for both sets of aircraft. Last but not least, FSX insists on classifying some publishers as "Unknown" even when the correct ui_createdby line is in the aircraft config file. This is the case for instance with a handful of Dash 8-100s and Saab 340Bs by Premier Aircraft Design, and also, bizarrely, Saab 340Fs by Virtualcol (I'm pretty sure though that the Virtualcol Saab 340Fs did appear under "Virtualcol FS Software" before I got the PAD Saabs). I had to add the ui_createdby lines in manually for those (except the Virtualcol Saabs), yet they remain stubbornly classified under "Unknown". Yet I manually added ui_createdby lines for other aircraft by both JBK and PAD, and they duly went from "Unknown" to their correct publisher. About 95% of all my aircraft, including ones whose aircraft config files I had to edit with ui_createdby lines, are listed under their correct publishers. So it's just a small number that remain troublesome. For the life of me, I can't work out why they won't go under the correct publisher. There is probably something wrong with the config files of either the freeware or payware aircraft (more likely the former), but I simply cannot figure out what that would be. Why won't FSX recognise the ui_createdby line for these particular aircraft, and why does it put some aircraft under entirely the wrong publisher even when the correct ui_createdby line is present? Many thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this most perplexing mystery.

Hello to all FS enthusiasts! I have FSX installed on my win7 (64bit) computer and i tried in the past successfully to add new liveries that i created , to my favorite B737-800 I use DXT and Photoshop as tools. In the past ( 2019) , i made all the appropriate changes to '' aircraft config '' file , and it worked ! All my new edits were shown on FSX . Nowadays , even after following all the steps , the simulator does not include my new liveries . I tried also to delete pre-existing liveries , and still no changes made !! Just like the simulator is frozen to a certain time, and doesn't add or remove paint liveries after editing the aircraft config file. I need your help please, so as to be able to add my new liveries , because i think that FSX doesn't read anymore the aircraft config files , thus it doesn't apply changes to the liveries it contains. Thank you all , Nick