Installation Problems v4 243

[frankturley]

I started with v4 233 installed on my drive D in a folder named Plan-G v4. I re-named this to Plan-G v4 Old, then copied the Plan-G v4 folder from the zip to my D drive.
I then ran the new version, and went to the Build Navigation Base option, and selected settings. The first irritation is the default being set to the documents file, and having to key in, rather than browse for, the location - in fact, if the program was smart, it might default to its current location. Anyway, I dutifully keyed in D:\Plan-G v4.
I then used the browse to enter the locations of FSX and P3dv4 programs and scenery files. I then got down to Additional Scenery Locations, and remembered I had some of these entered in previous versions, so I exited from the Build Navigation Base option, without doing a build. I then went off to find what I had entered in previous versions. (Incidentally, I don't get the purpose of these locations, as all should be in the scenery.cfg file anyway).
I returned with the additional locations to hand, and tried to re-start Plan-G, but it didn't work, just nothing happened. I decided to delete the new folder, renamed the Old to drop the Old, and was relieved to find I still had a working copy of version 233.
I then went through the rename and copy from the zip, and tried again, but this time it didn't work at all! I can only assume some flag has been set which is causing this.
Help!

[frankturley]

I found you can browse for the Additional Scenery Folders, when you press the "Add" button you get the browse window. If I had got that far I would have known, just tested v233 for this.

[tim arnot]

Was there a particular reason you wanted to change the build settings from the default? Unless you're using X-Plane, all the program/cfg locations come from the registry.

Additional Scenery Locations was added at user request for people that regularly remove stuff from their scenery.cfg but still want them included in the build. (and significantly Orbx in their pre-Central days, used to switch out regions). But in general, if the scenery is in your cfg, there's no value in having it in AdditionalLocations too.

If the program won't start now, you've probably damaged the settings file. Delete it and restart the program. The location of the settings file is specified in the ReadMe. Deleting the program folder and re-unzipping is unlikely to have any effect.

[frankturley]

Thanks for the prompt response. I deleted the file user.config, and re-tried, I was able to create the database files, and run the program.

I didn't appreciate that the database create used the registry locations, maybe these locations should be put into the settings display by default?

Anyway I'm now in good shape, thank you.

[tim arnot]

Plan-G itself doesn't use the registry, it only picks up entries created by FSX and P3D.

[frankturley]

Interestingly enough, I managed to corrupt the user.cfg file on my remote PC while editing the location settings. I deleted it and restarted, restored the settings, and it now works. The user.cfg file appears to be a bit delicate, as before I don't know why it got corrupted. All ok now, remote is working ok.

I would like to see a manual section covering the FS Connection Parameters, both on the host and on the remote PC, there are options there which weren't in version 3, and hence are not covered by that manual.

[tim arnot]

They are covered in the Quick Start Guide, located in your Plan-G/Docs folder (and also here on the forum) :)

[frankturley]

Thanks for that, I'll have a browse.