Aircraft Traffic BGL - Steam changes it

[Honus]

In order to get rid of the default aircraft in my AI traffic, I delete the 'aircraft traffic.bgl' in the world scenery folder as advised.  That works for a while but then Steam goes in and updates things back to the way they were, often changing other setting I've input.  I don't need Steam interfering with the way I've got this set up but most of all I don't want their defaults in my AI traffic.  Is there a way to stop this?  Thanks

[jorgen.s.andersen]

I have never seen this before, but you micht try to rename the file instead of deleting it, by adding for example '.old' to it, so the file name would be:

 

aircraft traffic.bgl.old

 

Jorgen

[Honus]

It did it again!!  I did as you said and renamed the existing traffic file then I saw a window flash up   'updating Steam' and when I went back to FSX it had restored the default airplanes into the aircraft traffic file!   I was looking for a way to stop Steam updates as it's way too helpful but haven't found it yet.

[jgf]

Steam updates will replace any missing "default" files, whether you want them or not.   I'm told these updates can be disabled but as I am not a Steam customer (never will be) I've no idea how.

 

This may help

https://windowsreport.com/disable-steam-automatic-updates/

[Honus]

Thanks for that info.  I notice it replaced my traffic.bgl file when I check the integrity of the installed files.  It finds this one and changes it so I just change it back.   They won't let you stop updates completely.

[jgf]

You could try making the file read-only;  don't know if Steam would/could overwrite it then.

[Honus]

yes I've done that so we'll see.  Thanks