answered Transfer ORBX products to a new PC

[JohnRB]

Hi

Could somebody please point me ( a non-computer specialist!) to, or provide, a simple step by step guide to transferring ORBX scenery and airports to a new PC and deleting them from the old PC.

If I can avoid downloading everything again on a snail-paced ADSL internet connection, that would be helpful!

This cannot be an unusual requirement but I cannot find a definitive answer, and it is confounded by the (welcome) availability of ORBX Central.

 

On my existing PC, ORBX products have been installed with FTX Central within the X-Plane folder on the desktop.

On my new PC, I wish to make use of the new Library feature of ORBX Central (which I have not yet downloaded) to place my ORBX files on a separate drive.

I have purchased and already installed a fresh (second) copy of X-Plane on the new PC, because I wish to retain and network the old PC as an X-Plane slave for Air Manager, utilities, moving map etc (but not for scenery).

 

How do I transfer my licence to ORBX Central and delete it from FTX Central, please, or will this happen automatically?

 

Thanks in anticipation

[Jon Clarke]

Please read this topic where all the answers are there for you:

 

[JohnRB]

Thanks, Jon. I am not a computer buff, but I don't see how this addresses my issue  -  the suggested topic is all about hosting ORBX scenery on a separate drive from that hosting the X-Plane folder, but in the same PC, and it all pre-dates the availability of ORBX Central, which I assume avoids all this messing around with symbolic links, anyway.

 

I am sorry if I have got the wrong end of the stick here, but my issue is that I have a new PC with a new copy of X-Plane. I want to move all my ORBX stuff, and my licence to use it, to the new PC and delete it all from the old PC, to meet the ORBX licence condition of only having it on a single PC.  Surely people are buying replacement more powerful PCs all the time so this cannot be a unique issue, but I cannot find guidance on it.

 

I assume that I can download the new ORBX Central on the new PC, log into my ORBX direct A/C and download it all again. But that will take an enormous amount of data, put unnecessary load on your servers and will take forever on a 2Mb/s ADSL link! And even if I do download it all again, how do I tell ORBX to recognise my licence on the new PC and not on the old one?

 

I was therefore hoping that I could somehow transfer all the existing ORBX files from the existing PC (via a USB stick) to the new PC, and get them recognised/licenced.

 

The second issue is then where to put the ORBX files. The X-plane folder will be on a smallish nvme drive with insufficient spare capacity to hold ORBX scenery, so I need ORBX to be stored on a different drive in the new PC to that hosting X-Plane. I am sort of assuming that when I download the new ORBX Central I can configure it to find the files on this different drive, without manually setting up symbolic links, whether they got there by download or transfer?

 

So the real issue here is can I transfer existing ORBX files or have I got to download it all again, and either way, how do I transfer the licence?

 

Thanks

 

John

 

 

[Nick Cooper]

Hello,

as far as I am aware, Orbx Central puts everything into one folder.

If you installed it into X Plane 11, that folder is Custom Scenery.

If you installed it into an Orbx Central Library, then that is the folder.

 

All you need to do is to install X Plane 11 and  copy the folder across

to your new PC, putting it into the place where you chose.

 

You can then run Orbx Central on the new PC which will detect your

products straight away if you put them into the Custom Scenery folder.

If you did not, then you will need to create a new Library.

This is a bit more involved and there is no point in going into detail if you

do not need it.