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May 7^th, 2012 at 10:57am

TUCANTO Offline
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Anyone advise the best way to store a back up of all my add-on scenery and aircraft files , so that I can reload them
without too much hassle if I ever have to reload FSX ?
I am thinking a separate stand alone disc drive. ?

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Reply #1 - May 7^th, 2012 at 12:05pm

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I can only think of Copy/Paste. It would take a while but you could back up your complete FSX directory if you wished.

My 3rd party aircraft & scenery are installed to locations outside the FSX root directory. They will be perfectly safe if I ever have to reinstall FSX. I might have to reactivate the scenery.

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Reply #2 - May 7^th, 2012 at 1:49pm

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I have a complete copy of FSX tucked away on a 1TB EHD. Subfoldered to it I have a pair for add-on scenery and add-on aircraft for ease of updating when I get new addies. It's just a simple copy-n-paste then when there's any acquisitions.

Thankfully it's been a while since FSX had to be repaired/reloaded being that I've learned a lot of stuff from being a member here. Having frequent educational experiences here has led to a drastic reduction of me doing something stupid with FSX components that most times rendered it FUBAR'd.

The last time I was goofy and really messed things up, repair/reinstall time and effort was drastically reduced with using the EHD files and folders.

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Reply #3 - May 8^th, 2012 at 8:51am

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I have a folder that's in my E drive, well FSX is installed on my C drive. I have disks where all my Payware planes are

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Reply #4 - May 8^th, 2012 at 9:06am

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I have everything now on an external 1.5TB drive. Works for me! Having just done a full re-install of the OS and FSX, its a whole lot easier to have everything there ready to go