grager Posted November 28, 2019 Share Posted November 28, 2019 For some months I have been using Prepar3D v 4.5 installed on my "C." drive with Orbx products installed on my"'F:" drive and linked by Symbolic Link. Due to a rapidly filling "C:" drive I have uninstalled P3D from that drive and reinstalled in "F:" Attached are a few shots of YBBN and CYSE clearly demonstrating problems. Other airports have similar issues.I have not done anything with the installed ORBX files. I realise this problem may have been discussed previously however I've been unable to find the exact problem on the Forums. I have run the Vector AEC automatic configuration function and the Sync to Sim function. I have also attached shots of my F drive structure and my Central Log. Your assistance is appreciated. Cheers Graham System: Windows 10 Home 64bit;Intel Core i7-8700 8th gen CPU 12MB,4.7GHz Max turbo; ASUS ROG STRIX IntelZ370 Motherboard; 8GB nVidia GTX1080 Graphics card; ORBX Products: 7 x Global; 19 Regions; Numerous Cityscapes and airports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted November 28, 2019 Share Posted November 28, 2019 Hello, It looks like you have not done as you think you have. The pictured folder containing your ORBX symbolic link does not contain P3D at all, it contains the installation files. As I have no idea what might be in your other folders, I would hope that they are also installation files and that all your products are actually installed into the ORBX folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grager Posted November 28, 2019 Author Share Posted November 28, 2019 Thanks Nick, Now I'm totally confused - comes with old age! Problem began a couple of weeks ago when, as I said I uninstalled P3D from drive C: and reinstalled on Drive F: Some months ago I thought I'd followed your Forum instructions on creating a Symbolic Link and transferred my ORBX folder to Drive F:. This reduced the size of Drive C: and everything worked well. I've attached a further photo of Drive F: detailing the contents of the ORBX folder outside the Sim. Obviously I've stuffed something up. Should I now embark on a fresh uninstall / install of all my ORBX products and let ORBX Central sort it out? Thanks again Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted November 28, 2019 Share Posted November 28, 2019 Hello, there should be no Orbx folder inside the Orbx folder. You seem to have an installation within an installation, which will not work. In any case, your link is not in the P3D folder at all, as mentioned above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence Hickerson Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 Just wandering! 1. Did you use a system "cleaner", to remove the old registry records? 2. Did you first removed all of your addon products: scenery, vehicles, etc...? I have three SSD's drives and a startup drive which is an NVMe C: drive. At 72 yrs young, I do get myself painted into a corner. The last issue was getting all of Orbx migrated to a SSD for its scenery library. After many days of just walking away, I cleaned out everything and chose to have MS Windows 10 pro just do a clean installation of windows 10. Wasn't that bad. It backed my files on the C drive and put in a new up to date Windows 10 and I started over. 1. Win10 reinstall NVMe 2. P3Dv4.5 on SSD2 3. Orbx library on SSD3 4. Storage on 2Gb drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grager Posted November 30, 2019 Author Share Posted November 30, 2019 Thanks Laurence, Don'have the luxury of all that technology! After Nick's post I decided to Uninstall Orbx and reinstall almost 100 Orbx products using "Central" to my almost fresh installation of P3D v5. No I haven't used a registry cleaner or removed addons. I'm hoping that's not going to make a difference?? Just about to start this project and will advise. Thanks Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 Hello Graham, neither FTX Central nor Orbx Central use registry entries for product licences any more. That went out of date on 1st November 2016, when Orbx Direct was launched. All licences are stored there. This image indicates that you probably have all your products installed into F:\ORBX It also indicates that you may have installed some products into F:\ORBX\ORBX You might be able to get away with cutting and pasting the contents of F:\ORBX\ORBX into F:\ORBX, which would then give you one ORBX folder. This image however shows that you have correctly made a symbolic link but that you have put it into the folder that contains your P3D v4 installer, not the installed simulator. The installed P3D v4 looks like this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grager Posted December 6, 2019 Author Share Posted December 6, 2019 Thanks for the advice Nick, I'm somewhat the wiser however have embarked on the fresh re-installation letting Central do all the hard work. So far all is working well having first installed 'Global' products, Aust.v2, and a few airports. Cheers Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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