My FSX Is Dumping Files (I Think).

[Walter]

For no reason, my copy of FSX seems to be dumping files. My gauges are missing on the default Beechcraft Baron, but I don't know about the other default planes. Also, my smoke effects are missing on all of my planes.

Has anybody had this issue before? Thanks for your help.

Walter

[N2056]

The first thing to look at in terms of troubleshooting something like this...
Have you done anything lately in terms of modifications?

[Walter]

I have only put planes onto the flight sim. I also put on some new clouds and most of the free REX addons, but those were a while ago.

[N2056]

Then the next thing I wonder about...
Have you changed anything lately on your computer?

[Walter]

As far as I can remember, no. It has been unchanged, unless you want to know that I just updated my McAfee last night. That was after the smoke was missing, and I just noticed that the gauges are missing tonight.

[PHo17]

This may not give answer to your question, but have you been using/testing some program before this happened? There are programs - even otherwise reliable - that may remove important files (they "think" are rubbish) if you aren't very careful. I just tested a clener and it took of all my cookies without warning and now I have to log in everywhere once again (here too).

This also has happened to me before. I install some third party plane or scenery and that overwrites (without warning) some default files. Nowadays I always install planes and sceneries first to some dummy folder and from there to the simulator. I also have a copy of pure FSX installation on external HDD from where I can backup default files if overwritten or disappeared. I also backup all addons.

Pekka

[Walter]

The newest program type thing that I put onto my computer is Skype.

My disc space has been getting very low. Could that possibly be the problem?

[roger-wilco-66]

How low is the disc space you have left? That could be an issue with FSX.

I never heard of or expericenced a loss of files from just FSX running. You could check in the gauges folder if they are still there, or wherever they a referenced to. But I think you will find them there where they should belong.

Maybe you have a messed-up fsx.cfg. That can have pretty wild effects. You could try to rename your old fsx.cfg into fsx.cfg_old and start FSX, then it builds a new one with default entries. Then see what happens...

One thing that once happened to me was that I accidentally moved a folder out of the structure onto another one, but the resulting error was quite obvious.

HTH,
Mark

[Walter]

Well for a while, I had been fighting a losing battle with my disc space. It usually hovered around 2GB free. Now I have 39.6GB free because I transferred some of my planes to my D drive. Here are some screenshots of the missing gauges.

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