answered All Orbx data deleted

[gregmorin]

The strangest thing has happened to my Orbx data in P3DV5. The file folders are all there but the data in the individual product folders has been deleted. The process I used to install Orbx in P3DV5 was to copy my Orbx folder from P3DV4 to P3DV5. I have P3DV5 installed on a dedicated M2 SSD. I copied 416GB of data then ran the verify files for all products. Orbx Central did a great job of installing all the scenery.

 

Currently the Orbx in P3DV5 has 4.29 mb of data. This is the folders. I have excluded P3DV5 from Avast and Windows defender is turned off. I did not have P3DV5 excluded in Malwarebites.

 

Any thoughts as to the cause or prevention of a re-occurrence?

 

Greg

[Nick Cooper]

Hello Greg,

a simple copy and paste should have worked, I cannot see why any anti virus or anti malware software should have

had any effect at all on a routine procedure like that. There is nothing at all in the Orbx set up that could cause such a problem.

What you did is more or less what I have done, except I did not copy the files but used a symbolic link.

I take it that you still have the files in your P3D v4 installation?

 

[gregmorin]

1 hour ago, Nick Cooper said:

Hello Greg,

a simple copy and paste should have worked, I cannot see why any anti virus or anti malware software should have

had any effect at all on a routine procedure like that. There is nothing at all in the Orbx set up that could cause such a problem.

What you did is more or less what I have done, except I did not copy the files but used a symbolic link.

I take it that you still have the files in your P3D v4 installation?

 

Yes Nick I still have my files in P3DV4. I am in the process of re-installing to P3DV5.  The files in P3DV5 worked fine for the first 6 days. Very unusual. I am going to chock it to a cyber  anomaly.

 

Greg