I followed your advice OldAirmail and purchased the scenery migration tool. It's mostly been successful but with the odd failure, it could be something I'm not doing right though.
Tongass Fjords went in a treat, nothing missing that I can see and it works well
UT2 I haven't tried because I've read elsewhere that this doesn't work, I'm not willing to risk it.
UTX Europe went in well and as far as I can see at the moment works a treat.
GEX will not go in. The original destination folder for the installation is program files (x86) and this doesn't seem to tie in with how the migrator tool works......shame. anyone know of a solution?
I haven't tried it with any aircraft installers because I don't tend to use payware aircraft......I have very simple needs in that area
I initially thought the FSX aircraft worked well using the drag and drop method but I've since had some texture problems. All paint schemes on a particular model came up as the default plain paint job. It seems that P3D doesn't like "texture= " or "texture=0" so I've renumbered the textures and am hoping that this will work.
I also had a dark texture issue with the imported FSX planes, it looked like they were all in shadow, very un attractive. They had worked well for a couple of days , they just suddenly went dark and wouldn't revert.......I deleted them and re imported and presto all was good again. Heaven knows what that issue was.
....looking at the P3D forums many people are experiencing minor bugs. I would guess that many of them have come about because of incompatibilities with add-on scenery and aircraft (IMO). Some of these issues are not going to be solved, some stuff just ain't going to work.