Robder Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 Hi all, I'm running X-Plane in a mixed MAC / Windows environment on my iMac with a Windows 10 Bootcamp partition. Usually I run X-Plane on my Mac-OS system, but sometimes, when I need more performance, I run X-Plane in my Windows 10 environment. I have quite a few Orbx TrueEarth products installed in Libraries on 2 external SSD drives, which I have connected to my Mac and my Windows system (using AFPS for Windows). I installed the productes using Orbx Central on my Mac. Now my question: can I use the same libraries in my Windows X-Plane installation? I don't have the space for 2 separate installations. I installed Orbx Central on my Windows system, but it does not detect the existing libraries... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Clarke Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 I will check if this can be done and get back to you. @Nick Cooper please see PM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted December 14, 2021 Share Posted December 14, 2021 Hello, did you make your existing libraries with Orbx Central? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robder Posted December 14, 2021 Author Share Posted December 14, 2021 (edited) Yes, I did under MacOS... Edited December 14, 2021 by Robder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robder Posted December 18, 2021 Author Share Posted December 18, 2021 @Nick Cooper Hello Nick, did you get a chance to look into this? Best, Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Hello, I can see no logical reason why you should not be able to use the same files for each method of running X Plane 11. I also can see no reason why Orbx Central running under Windows should not detect your existing libraries. The flie structure must be the same and I must assume that Windows can see the folders in the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robder Posted December 19, 2021 Author Share Posted December 19, 2021 @Nick CooperThere does seem to be a problem on the Windows platform. I'm access the SSD Drive, which is APFS formatted, with Paragon APFS for Windows and I can see and access files on that drive. When trying to create a new library on Drive G I get following error message: Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Hello, given that the Library creation system does not allow for anything but selecting an existing folder, the fact that you hve apparently done so and yet Orbx Central cannot see it would suggest that there is something fundamentally wrong. Can you attach a copy of the Orbx Central log please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robder Posted December 19, 2021 Author Share Posted December 19, 2021 (edited) 41 minutes ago, Nick Cooper said: Hello, given that the Library creation system does not allow for anything but selecting an existing folder, the fact that you hve apparently done so and yet Orbx Central cannot see it would suggest that there is something fundamentally wrong. Can you attach a copy of the Orbx Central log please? Attached is the log: central.log I did find the following in the Event Log: Eventlog-1.txt Edited December 19, 2021 by Robder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Hello, thanks, I have asked our IT people if they can take a look. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Hello, they have isolated this error: 2021-12-19T13:52:55.325Z [INFO] [Central::IpcService] - Disconnected from Saturn. 2021-12-19T13:52:55.345Z [INFO] [Central::IpcService] - The Orbx Central worker process failed to start. Please check the user guide for troubleshooting advice at http://orbx.to/central-guide - closed with code 3762504530 - null follwed by this one in the Event Viewer. Exception Info: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'G:\.DocumentRevisions-V100\staging'. They are asking did you create this folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robder Posted December 20, 2021 Author Share Posted December 20, 2021 No, this a system folder created by MacOS and visible if the volume is mounted in Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Hello, thanks, I have passed that back to the IT staff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robder Posted December 20, 2021 Author Share Posted December 20, 2021 I have also done some more research. First thought was that I don't really need Orbx Central if I create the required symbolic links in the X-Plane Custom Scenery folder manually and update the scenery.ini file accordingly. To my surprise this did not work as I was getting the error message: "The device does not support symbolic links." I found some articles which stated that only the NTFS file system supports symbolic links in Windows. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robder Posted December 20, 2021 Author Share Posted December 20, 2021 (edited) Backup & Re-formatted my exFAT drive to NTFS. After restore I managed to manually create symbolic links for all Orbx library files and updated scenery.ini accordingly. X-Plane seems to start OK. according to the log, it finds all scenery locations. I see this as a workaround for the time being... Edited December 20, 2021 by Robder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Very good news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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