P3D Addon locatation fixed but not really?

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walterg74
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P3D Addon locatation fixed but not really?

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After doing a complete uninstall of P3D v3, and a clean install of v4, I wanted to start fresh installing all my add-ons.

When I go install the C172, to my surprise, I see that the installation path is chosen for me, based on other files/settings, etc. and it does not let me choose or go into the P3D installation directory.

I am 100% sure this was discussed in the "early days" of v4, and all this stemmed from a misunderstanding from developers (A2A included) of what exactly the addon.xml was meant for, which includes *specifying where the add-on is actually installed, which could be anywhere*.

I am also 100% sure that in a discussion, one of the A2A folks acknowledged this, and stated it would be corrected. So the question is, what happened?

Was this never corrected? Am I maybe using an old installer for my plane? Or what is going on?

Please don't direct me to any "relocate your files" thread/post/link. I know how to do that and have no desire to do so, as I keep my documents (and OS disk in general) clean of anything except the absolutely necessary.

Thanks for your help!!!

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Re: P3D Addon locatation fixed but not really?

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Edit: Seems it was in fact, just the C172 installer which was the previous one to the one where this was changed.

I was able to install to a custom folder, and the same for the other planes I own.

One last question though: After installing my planes, I ran the latest accusim update, however, even though I pointed it to the same location as where I installed the planes, instead of seeing it cycle through all the products, stopping and updating the ones I have like I am used to seeing, it seems to have ended really quickly, without doing any of that, almost as if it had done nothing at all...

Has anything changed with this? AM I doing something wrong?

Thanks.

Edit: Just in case, the aircraft I have are the 172, 182, 180 & 250, and have the latest 4.1 P3D. From what I read around, latest accu-sim update is from October, after the installers which are from June, so it should be doing *something* at least, right? (also, running the same updater but selecting FSX which I also have, does in fact cycle through all aircraft, updating the ones that needed it)

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Nick - A2A
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Re: P3D Addon locatation fixed but not really?

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walterg74 wrote:After installing my planes, I ran the latest accusim update, however, even though I pointed it to the same location as where I installed the planes, instead of seeing it cycle through all the products, stopping and updating the ones I have like I am used to seeing, it seems to have ended really quickly, without doing any of that, almost as if it had done nothing at all...
This is normal walterg74: the 10_12_2017 update (when applied to P3Dv4.1) just replaces one-or-two shared Accu-Sim files to fix an issue with ground steering. It doesn't update any files specific to individual A2A aircraft hence no need to cycle through them.

Thanks,
Nick

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Re: P3D Addon locatation fixed but not really?

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Nick M wrote:
walterg74 wrote:After installing my planes, I ran the latest accusim update, however, even though I pointed it to the same location as where I installed the planes, instead of seeing it cycle through all the products, stopping and updating the ones I have like I am used to seeing, it seems to have ended really quickly, without doing any of that, almost as if it had done nothing at all...
This is normal walterg74: the 10_12_2017 update (when applied to P3Dv4.1) just replaces one-or-two shared Accu-Sim files to fix an issue with ground steering. It doesn't update any files specific to individual A2A aircraft hence no need to cycle through them.

Thanks,
Nick

Thanks Nick, I did look inside the structure and see that in fact it did just change a single file.

Thanks for the help.

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Re: P3D Addon locatation fixed but not really?

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You're welcome. :)

Nick

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