How to Restore Missing Gauges ... ?

[Andi]

Hi Folks,

Not sure if this is the right 'department' to pose this question, but oh well ....   :-/

Some of the gauges on both stock and downloaded fs9 aircraft have suddenly disappeared, making controlled flight rather ... er ... problematic.  I've been downloading (and deleting) a fair bit recently.  I know that many downloads use stock gauges, but is it possible that some models 'capture' these gauges, so that when you delete the model, the gauges go with it (does this make sense)?  I've tried restoring the models that hadn't been wiped from the Recycle Bin, but it didn't help.

I suppose the REAL question is, is it possible to restore the missing gauges?

Many thanks for any help/advice  

Andi

[dave3cu]

Default gauges can be restored from CD2\MSGAME3.cab\Gauges\.

[Andi]

Thanks, Dave.  I'll try that.

Hugs an' Kisses

Andi  

[Andi]

Hmmmm?  Where did I go wrong???   :-/

Following Dave's instructions, I first made a back-up copy of my current Gauges file.  I then unzipped MSGAME3.cab, selected all the .gau files, then had WinZip extract them to the Gauges file in fs9.  I clicked  'yes' to overwrite existing files.  Unfortunately, this didn't solve the problem.  

As near as I can tell, by checking a handful of panels for different models, it's the default Cessna primary flight and engine instruments that are missing (though not all of them).

Any further advice, from Dave (or anyone) would be appreciated.  Thanks!  

Andi

[dave3cu]

First off, double check that  the unpacking process placed the gauge files in the correct folder (the main \Gauges\ folder), and didn't, for example, create a new 'Gauges' folder inside the main 'Gauges' folder (...\Gauges\Gauges\..).

Could you identify one or more of the aircraft that are missing gauges?...either default or add-on. If add-on, include the download location and filename.

Dave  

[Andi]

Success!!!  

Well, you were right, Dave.  The process did create an additional 'Gauges' file within the main fs9\Gauges.  I copied the contents of this 'additional' file into fs9\Gauges and it seems to have done the trick.  I've checked about 80% of the aircraft now (mostly my favourites) and they're all OK - even the default Cessna, whose gauges were the main 'missing' ones.

Thinking about your previous reply, I suspect the problem was created by those self-installing/uninstalling models.  I'll be more careful about those types from now on ... promise  

Thanks again for helping.

Andi

[TFE123]

Well uh there is another way to get the gauges from FSX in to FS9 planes i found out like last week i feel special