Folders and subfolders

[FlyerDoc]

It seems to me that every add-on or tweak is simply chucked into the 'Community' folder. It's rapidly becoming too full to be able to categorise and find things. Is there a way to divide up the files by category - say, aircraft, scenery, utilities, or whatever - and then indicate in one of the cfg files where the files have been put - bit like the SceneryLibrary in FSX? You could put files anywhere as long as they were declared. Same with aircraft. Otherwise the Community folder is going to become unmanageable.

[jamesbecker]

Agree totally!

[rajgon]

Since the name of the add on folder doesn't matter, you can rename them to what you like, such as Aircraft-addonname, Airport-addonname, etc. This should keep them organized. You can't currently do a subfolder structure within community.

 

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[FlyerDoc]

No, that's what I was after, a sub-folder or even sub-sub-folder structure to keep each file type in its own sub-folder. A shame it can't be done, and maybe something we will all want before long. How about it, MS?

[cobalt]

Since the name of the add on folder doesn't matter, you can rename them to what you like, such as Aircraft-addonname, Airport-addonname, etc. This should keep them organized. You can't currently do a subfolder structure within community.

 

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I wish this were true – it certainly sounds as if it should be. But unfortunately, it is not. I changed the name of an addon (Kennedy Space Center) and found that it did not show up in the sim – only when I changed the name of the folder back to the original (aquilasim-nasa) did it work. Even shortening to just "aquasim" causes the addon objects to not show up. Can anybody explain this? I can’t imagine why changing the addon folder name in Community matters – but it does!

[tiger1962]

I wish this were true – it certainly sounds as if it should be. But unfortunately, it is not. I changed the name of an addon (Kennedy Space Center) and found that it did not show up in the sim – only when I changed the name of the folder back to the original (aquilasim-nasa) did it work. Even shortening to just "aquasim" causes the addon objects to not show up. Can anybody explain this? I can’t imagine why changing the addon folder name in Community matters – but it does!

 

It's because each add-on has two .json files, basically config files, which contain the files and folders location info for each add-on. If you change the folder name you'll have to edit the .json files as well.

[cobalt]

Thanks -- I changed the title in the "layout" file to match the new folder name, but I don't see how to edit the "manifest" file, as the folder title does not appear there. Any suggestions?

[tiger1962]

The manifest file won't need editing if there's no folder name in there.

 

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[cobalt]

Thanks again. As far as I can tell, the only other place besides the layout file in which the folder name is required, is in the sub-folder included in "ContentInfo" which contains the thumbnail. Changing this, along with the layout file, still doesn't do the trick. Only the original file name works. I do appreciate your help on this. If you have any other ideas I would be happy to hear them!