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Mayday....what have I done ??

Posted: 24 Mar 2008, 20:51
by Fastair
Hi all,
Please can you anyone help me here. Have been playing around and having a tidy up on my system. On going flying I have now found that I have lost textures where ever I have anything MAIW installed, in the screen shot, Lakenheath, Marham ( HAS ) areas and Coningsby now look like this ?!
Please tell me it is recoverable, many thanks.

Posted: 24 Mar 2008, 21:12
by Firebird
I am just double checking, but it looks like a default fs9 texture rather than an MAIW one, the clue being Marham. Not many textures supplied there.

Have you used the sysinternals utility filemon before? If you have set it so that it only looks for FS9 errors and then slew across an airfield that has this problem. The missing texture will be displayed.

If you haven't used it before or can't work out how to use it, we will try and work out what you have deleted but it might be slower.

Can you remember what you tidied in your fs9\texture folder?

Posted: 24 Mar 2008, 21:16
by Fastair
Hi Firebird,
Many thanks for the reply, to be honest I've never heard of that utility. Happy to give it a shot though. So, do you think this is possibly recoverable?

Regards

Posted: 24 Mar 2008, 21:24
by Fastair
If it helps here is a quick screenie from Marham.......

Posted: 24 Mar 2008, 21:55
by Firebird
I checked the scenery folders and there aren't any taxiway textures in any of them, so I think that its your default scenery folder thats the problem.

In my folder I have 24 textures beginning with taxi, 21 taxi_*.bmp and 3 taxiway_*.bmp.

I have a feeling that its either taxi_asphalt, taxi_macadam or taxi_tarmac that Ian uses.
If you can pm me a list of the taxi* files you have in fs9\texture then I am sure that we can sort this out.

Posted: 24 Mar 2008, 22:12
by Fastair
PM sent, oh and I too have three taxiway bmp's

Regards

Posted: 24 Mar 2008, 22:21
by Firebird
Got it, think I have spotted the problem and have pm'd you back.

Posted: 24 Mar 2008, 22:49
by Fastair
SIR,
You are a genius and a true gent. A very humble and slightly embarressed thank you. Sorted at all three stations and guessing a few others I haven't checked.

Thank you once again for your time and patience....
Regards,

Posted: 24 Mar 2008, 23:13
by Firebird
No problem, Paul. Its nice to be able to fix things quickly once in a while.

Posted: 25 Mar 2008, 20:27
by scottr5213
To everyone here... I just wanted to drop a note saying that the team work and fellowship that everyone has her is second to none. I am honored to have some of the friendship that I have found here,and hope MAIW never die's. To all lets keep up the great work.

Posted: 25 Mar 2008, 21:28
by Firebird
Thank you, kind Sir, on behalf of all of the MAIW Staff and its Members.

Posted: 26 Mar 2008, 00:47
by MidNight
A little off topic but: LONG LIVE MAIW, never die on us :)

Posted: 26 Mar 2008, 00:59
by BadPvtDan
As long as there is one guy to do flightplans, repaints, vpcmods...and package them all up; I will keep the site going. Mike and Desmond will still have to maintain it, though :P