Bassmann200 Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Hello! Is there any way to deactivate the automatic installation of SAM plugin with new Airports or with the Verify Data for existing Airports? The Version of SAM in Central is already outdated and always causes trouble with the already installed newer SAM Version with the Payware extensions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Clarke Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 SAM should appear in your My Products section of Orbx Central You can uninstall it there as shown in the pic below: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vostflyer Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Edit: Disregard, the latest version of Orbx Central seems to detect SAM correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassmann200 Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 On 12/22/2020 at 5:07 PM, Jon Clarke said: SAM should appear in your My Products section of Orbx Central You can uninstall it there as shown in the pic below: This it exactly what I already did several times, but everytime when I either install a new Airport (did this with KFAT yesterday) or if I click on "Verifiy Files" in an existing Airport (like LOWW or EDDT) in order to install availabe updates it automatically installes to outdated Version of SAM again and completely messes up my existing SAM installation. I just tried this with the latest Version of Central and it still behaves like described. So I need to manually remove SAM completely from plugins folder and copy back my SAM folder from Backup. And the most annoying thing is that the World Jetways extension gets to "unlicensed" every time I do this and I need to Activate that again. Could you please fix this in Central or actually let the use choose if he wants to intall SAM or not? 18 hours ago, Vostflyer said: Edit: Disregard, the latest version of Orbx Central seems to detect SAM correctly. Unfortunately not. Just tried with the latest version of Central, it still installs SAM 2.0.7 even if there is already a newer version (2.1.7) installed and overwrites the existing version without any notice!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vostflyer Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 By Jove, you are correct. I had seen that SAM was no longer showing as needing updating, in my Orbx Central, and so assumed OC was now correctly detecting the library under Resources/Plugins/SAM/lib. But it turns out it downloaded v 2.0.7 (probably as part of the update to Leeds Bradford). So yes, back to my original response (which is what my 'disregard' comment referred to), OC should be checking the path Resources/Plugins/SAM/lib, rather than the Custom Scenery folder, when deciding if an update to the SAM library is needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Clarke Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 SAM being a separate optional download would resolve the issue rather than it being a part of a download package with addons that we say require SAM. Either that or SAM versions need to be regularly updated by Orbx Central to the latest version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartson Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 What is your logic for having being an optional download if the scenery needs the plug in? If you are going to use plug ins why wouldn’t you keep your users current? As for having a system that always supplies an old version of the plug in (say for new purchasers of a software) words fail me. Orbx is increasingly using spin like this when issues arise. This rolling back of the plug in gave me two CTDs yesterday and it took me a while to figure out that Orbx was the guilty party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Hello hartson, when a product is available in more than one medium but there is only one source, then there may well be a short delay between the issue of a new version by the developer and that new version reaching another source. This is because the files must be sent across and then manually added to Orbx Central. Of course you apparently see this as unconscionable. The remaining comments are entirely unwarranted and of your own invention. This is clearly a matter for the Orbx Central developers and I will therefore move the topic to their forum. I will notify them separately of its existence but of course, it is now Christmas, so we must be patient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 Hello, the suggested answer is to switch off automatic updates in Orbx Central, either for SAM only, or for al products. Then you can choose whether to update it or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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