Effects question

[Joseph29]

I my effect/texture folder I have 4 files named fx_mig_antiburner.bmp, fx_mig_antiburner1.bmp, fx_mig_antiburne2r.bmp, and fx_mig_antiburner9.bmp. Does anyone know what plane these go with? Are they for a AI plane or a flyable plane? I am moving my stuff to a new computer and Im not putting in some stuff, and if those files are for a plane I am not putting in I will delete them.

[f4nutter]

the question you have to ask yourself is are you putting any migs in ? if you are i would keep them as they dont take up much if any space in your PC, i have 1,171 effect files in my sim taking up 127mb........

[Joseph29]

Thats the thing. I don't have any AI or flyable Migs in my sim. So I am not sure what plane these effect textures are for.

[MIKE JG]

It would take forever, but you could search through each aircraft's cfg file to see if it makes use of those effects.

[f4nutter]

if it was me i would leave them in the effects, unless like mike says you go through all your CFG files

[KevinJarvis]

Just do a search for the word 'mig' and see what kind of results you get. Thats something you can do behind the scenes.

[kungfuman]

Will the windows search function recognise text inside a ".cfg" file? That might be a problem...

Opening every aircraft.cfg file individually in notepad is obviously not a time effective approach, but it would eventually give you answers.

[Blank Fang]

Will the windows search function recognise text inside a ".cfg" file? That might be a problem...

By default Windows XP will ignore files with the .cfg extension!

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article ID: 309173
Using the "A word or phrase in the file" search criterion may not work
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173/en-us
describes how to change the Search settings in order to search all files.

I suggest to follow Method 2 to acheive the desired result!
I suppose later Windows editions such as Vista and Windows 7 behave similar!
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Willy