paulfar Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 I recently deleted an add-on scenery (LDDU-Dubrovnik), however, during the installation process I was required to place a modified .bgl (FL952160) in the SCENERY>EURW>SCENERY folder. After I deleted this scenery I found that I must not have saved the default FL952160 .bgl (my bad), so I left the modified .bgl in place, thinking that it's better to have something rather than nothng. I don't have a clue as to what this .bgl is or does, sooo, should I try to extract the default .bgl from one of the FS9 discs or can I leave well enough alone. I do have a tutorial re: extracting files from FS9 discs, but I've never done it before. My question is: how important is this particular .bgl and do I need to have any concerns with leaving the modified one in place? Thanks for any guidance, Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bam1220 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Are you having any problems or error messages with the modified .bgl file in place? If not I wouldn't worry about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StringBean Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 That is a flatten file that creates the flat areas for airports at specific elevations. I would assume that while the file in question controls many airports, the only one that is different from the defaults is LDDU. A quick check of LDDU and nearby airports will determine the need for replacing the addon file with the default file (which is not really hard to do anyway). BTW, I am typically very careful with any addon that requires replacing default scenery files. There are other ways to accomplish the same thing. peace, the Bean WWOD---What Would Opa Do? Farewell, my freind (sp) Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulfar Posted March 15, 2015 Author Share Posted March 15, 2015 So far I have received no error messages or any strange FS9 behavior since I deleted the above mentioned scenery, however, I've only completed a couple of flights which were many hundreds of miles from LDDU. Bean: Based on your comments I'll take a spin around LDDU to include T/O and landings to see if there is any problem and report back here. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnhinson Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Why don't you just retrieve the original file from your installation CDs? John http://www.adventure-unlimited.org My co-pilot's name is Sid and he's a star! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulfar Posted March 15, 2015 Author Share Posted March 15, 2015 I will probably end up doing just that, however, I've never extracted files from a disc before and will have to learn how to do it. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StringBean Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 I will probably end up doing just that, however, I've never extracted files from a disc before and will have to learn how to do it. Paul http://www.cat-tamer.com/flightsim/faq001.html WWOD---What Would Opa Do? Farewell, my freind (sp) Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leuen Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 BTW, I am typically very careful with any addon that requires replacing default scenery files. Or at least do a backup before installing. It's strongly recommanded to backup periodically the whole FS anyway. And further have always a virgin FS9 installed too. Finally it's more simple to get a file from there, than search in the CD's. Just for the future! Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulfar Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 Thanks to everyone that responded. I succcessfully extracted the .bgl in question from FS9 Disc#3 and placed it in the proper folder. A good learning experience. Bean: The link you provided contained the same extract instructions that I have in my Favorite Places repository. Kudos to Jim Robinson for a much needed helping hand. Regards, Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StringBean Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Kudos to Jim Robinson for a much needed helping hand. +1 WWOD---What Would Opa Do? Farewell, my freind (sp) Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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