kmax59 Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Hi there, After looking closer at the files included in OLC and OLC mesh & photoreal for Africa, I realized that the mesh files are duplicated : OLC_AF2 folder exists in both OpenLC products and the Mesh & Photoreal freeware and they both contains the exact same data, is there any reason? Both are adding a scenery layer (one named "Orbx!OPENLC_AFRICA2" and the other named "Orbx!OPENLC_AFRICA2 (1)" ) in the sim while it's totally unneeded. I would like to keep the freeware for the photoreal parts but I don't really want the mesh to be added twice as the only thing it does is that it adds 3 additional Gb to be read by the simulator without any reason, as FSX/P3D is already CPU heavy it would be nice if one of these 2 layers could be deleted from one or another product. This may not sound that important but when you have a simulator that already load a whole Tb of data, you don't really want to add useless files in it. Could something be done on this? Why not including the photoreal data in OpenLC itself and keep the mesh as freeware addition as anyway it requires OpenLC to work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dow Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 I thought the freeware addon was supposed to remove that mesh, anyway maybe that's for a future update. In the meantime just remove whichever duplicate you prefer, (I'd remove the non freeware one as the freeware one is now the standard product). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart Hobson Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 8 minutes ago, John Dow said: I thought the freeware addon was supposed to remove that mesh, anyway maybe that's for a future update. In the meantime just remove whichever duplicate you prefer, (I'd remove the non freeware one as the freeware one is now the standard product). John, I thought so also. So, which one is the non-freeware one? I'm keen to save some space myself. Stew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dow Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 12 hours ago, Stewart Hobson said: John, I thought so also. So, which one is the non-freeware one? I'm keen to save some space myself. Stew It won't matter they are the same as far as I know. I don't know which is which. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmax59 Posted June 3, 2020 Author Share Posted June 3, 2020 19 hours ago, John Dow said: I thought the freeware addon was supposed to remove that mesh, anyway maybe that's for a future update. In the meantime just remove whichever duplicate you prefer, (I'd remove the non freeware one as the freeware one is now the standard product). Of course I know I can remove the entry from the add-on.xml but I'm not sure how Orbx central will deal with it. I was mainly asking if an update could be expected on this, so can an update be expected? Is there a technical reason behind this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 Hello, it was a technicality, now resolved. The installer should have removed the mesh from the original installation, leaving only one copy and the installation exactly as it was before, just with some files in different folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart Hobson Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 It appears that the prudent course of action is to leave everything alone, provided that one has used the new installer to do the installation. Also, both Orbx!OPENLC_AFRICA2 and Orbx!OPENLC_AFRICA2 (1) are correct entries and should be left intact? Is that the advice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmax59 Posted June 3, 2020 Author Share Posted June 3, 2020 6 hours ago, Nick Cooper said: Hello, it was a technicality, now resolved. The installer should have removed the mesh from the original installation, leaving only one copy and the installation exactly as it was before, just with some files in different folders. Thanks Nick, On my install I still have the mesh in the original installation (and it's still in the add-on.xml) while I have the latest version. Could this be due to the fact I got this OpenLC at release day? Would you advise to restart an install from scratch? I usually manage all of this myself but since Orbx Central was released, I'm much more careful with what I'm doing manually as Orbx central is more sensitive than FTX central about those things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 No, I would leave well alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmax59 Posted June 3, 2020 Author Share Posted June 3, 2020 In that case I don't understand how it was resolved, both folder and xml entries are still both there and thus duplicated so it is not resolved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 In that case, please uninstall the entire product and install it again. Are you seeing a problem in the simulator? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmax59 Posted June 3, 2020 Author Share Posted June 3, 2020 Thanks, that's what I'll do. I was unsure if that was supposed to be still here or not. I don't see any issue in the sim to be honest but that's additional 3Gb of files that are unnecessarily loaded by the sim, and taking space for nothing. I'll report back if both entries are still there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmax59 Posted June 4, 2020 Author Share Posted June 4, 2020 Hi @Nick Cooper, Problem solved, it seems that updating to the latest version is not enough and a full reinstall of OpenLC & OpenLC mesh and photoreal is necessary to prevent those duplicated entries. Thanks for the help ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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