canadagoose Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 I just went into Orbx Central and clicked on "My Products" and they have disappeared. I know I have the "Backup" option ticked in settings and that the Product files have been moved into the D:\Orbx Products\Central\Backup folder. But what puzzles me is my Library folder I had everything in here, D:\Orbx P3Dv5 has been removed from my drive. It is probably an easy fix, but I am not sure I like the fact that Orbx central is manipulating folders that I have assigned on my computer. I manually added the folder, D:\Orbx P3Dv5 back and copied the product files back into this folder and Orbx Central still does not recognize my installed Products. Any ideas how I can correct this or do I have to re-install everything? As far as I know I did not carry out this action myself. I am puzzled. Regards, Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadagoose Posted December 28, 2021 Author Share Posted December 28, 2021 ...just noticed as well, some folders in the backup have files, some do not. So that means I have to reinstall quite a bit to get back to where I was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadagoose Posted December 28, 2021 Author Share Posted December 28, 2021 Looks to me like the backup has come up as a useless tool for me. No favours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadagoose Posted December 28, 2021 Author Share Posted December 28, 2021 (edited) ...this being a so called "Backup", there must be a way to restore the files into my original folder? Edited December 28, 2021 by canadagoose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadagoose Posted December 28, 2021 Author Share Posted December 28, 2021 I got a feeling there is no way around this. so, I am going to begin reinstalling everything and not use the "backup option" this time... how do we know this will not happen again? Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullfox Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Just checked, so far I 'm good. All products are there. I have not yet added the hot fix to P3D 5.3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadagoose Posted December 28, 2021 Author Share Posted December 28, 2021 4 minutes ago, Bullfox said: Just checked, so far I 'm good. All products are there. I have not yet added the hot fix to P3D 5.3. ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadagoose Posted December 28, 2021 Author Share Posted December 28, 2021 (edited) Can someone explain to me the benefit of having Orbx Central backup my installed products? The reason I ask is because all the backup folders I have are, I assume, the files necessary for re-installing the Products. That is fine, but there is no means of triggering a reinstall within Orbx Central. I do not see an "executable" within the backup folders, nor is there a click spot to start a reinstall. I am in the process of manually (starting over) re-installing all my products after doing just that almost a couple of weeks ago. This is turning out to be a Long Process, as the downloads and installations are very slow (probably busy servers or something of that nature). Here is hoping my installation doesn't disappear again into the blue. I do not have the confidence in the "Orbx Central" app that I am used to. Regards, T Edited December 28, 2021 by canadagoose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sawatzky Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Hi If you uninstall a product and then want reinstall it, Orbx Central will simply use the backup files instead of downloading the whole file, yes the terminology used by Orbx Central while reinstalling may say it is downloading, but it is not downloading the complete file, only any new or updated files. So the benefit would be using less download bandwidth and time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadagoose Posted December 29, 2021 Author Share Posted December 29, 2021 Oh, Ok I get that. Then I guess it is still a mystery as to why my Orbx installations disappeared from my drive. No matter, I am in the process of reinstalling right now anyway. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canadagoose Posted December 29, 2021 Author Share Posted December 29, 2021 SOLVED. I have to apologize. I realized hunch as to what had happened here. It was a very simple thing that I should have suspected before now. What I did was, I carelessly (accidently, whatever) moved my entire "Orbx Library" into another folder located just above, rendering Orbx Library to assume I had no Products installed. While browsing File Explorer I moused (moved) the Orbx folder into another folder, not realizing the error of my ways. Again, sorry for all the commotion over this. If you wish Please delete this Post. It is totally irrelevant. Regards, Tom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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