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Files back-up

Postby TUCANTO » Mon May 07, 2012 9:57 am

Anyone advise the best way to store a back up of all my add-on scenery and aircraft files , so that I can reload them
without too much hassle if I ever have to reload FSX  ?
I am thinking a separate stand alone disc drive. ?
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Re: Files back-up

Postby Hagar » Mon May 07, 2012 11:05 am

I can only think of Copy/Paste. It would take a while but you could back up your complete FSX directory if you wished.

My 3rd party aircraft & scenery are installed to locations outside the FSX root directory. They will be perfectly safe if I ever have to reinstall FSX. I might have to reactivate the scenery.
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Re: Files back-up

Postby U4EA » Mon May 07, 2012 12:49 pm

I have a complete copy of FSX tucked away on a 1TB EHD.
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Re: Files back-up

Postby BlackAce » Tue May 08, 2012 7:51 am

I have a folder that's in my E drive, well FSX is installed on my C drive.  I have disks where all my Payware planes are
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Re: Files back-up

Postby todayshorse » Tue May 08, 2012 8:06 am

I have everything now on an external 1.5TB drive. Works for me! Having just done a full re-install of the OS and FSX, its a whole lot easier to have everything there ready to go :)
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Re: Files back-up

Postby Scatterbrain Kid » Tue Jun 05, 2012 5:57 pm

I've burnt my 'Airplanes' folder to disk for safekeeping on the basis of "a disk is forever"..;)
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