fsx aircraft thumbnails mixed up...need help

[Evan Popchock]

Still can't remember the fix, but I do remember going through my list and finding the first mistake through my batch of planes being the first plane with the problem. Go through and find which in your thumbnails do not match up and pull that particular aircraft and put it in a folder named HOLD until they match up. Then you know you have them all found once aircraft match up. It is not as big a problem as it seems, could be one aircraft that is the problem making it seem more mismatched if I remember correctly.
So start at beginning of the list and go through until you find the first mismatched plane. Removed to the HOLD folder. Open FSX and search again starting where you last saw a mismatched plane.

Rick

I will try that and let you know if it works

[FlexibleFlier]

Each and every single Aircraft Texture folder in FSX, has to have its own individual Aircraft photo "Thumbnail" JPG in its own Texture folder !!!!!

They can not be outside the individual aircraft texture folder.

I hope I don't confuse the issue but Jetranger isn't completely accurate. In the aircraft.cfg file each aircraft has its own section [fltsim.#] and within that section there is a line "texture =". If there is nothing following the "=" sign the .cfg file will look for "thumbnail.jpg" within that aircraft's folder; but, a thumbnail can be placed outside the folder if the "texture =" line refers to it, e.g., "texture = C:\Program files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Simobjects\Airplanes\your aircraft folder" or wherever you want to keep the thumbnail .jpg files.

I only mention this because, although not likely, it's possible an assignment like that got inserted somewhere and could be messing with things.

[Azframer]

Well I remember having this problem myself. Finding the aircraft will take him starting at the top and working his way through his aircraft, clicking on details and finding the first mismatched plane. When he finds the first mismatched plane he goes and puts that plane in a folder named "HOLD" in his Aircraft directory. He may find one or more planes that is the problem. Once he has them all he can find the problem and fix it.
I may have just axed them and why I don't remember the problem or the fix, may have just redownloaded and installed to get around this issue. I just can't remember to save my life right now.
The course to find is as described, start at the top.
Rick

[Evan Popchock]

Well I remember having this problem myself. Finding the aircraft will take him starting at the top and working his way through his aircraft, clicking on details and finding the first mismatched plane. When he finds the first mismatched plane he goes and puts that plane in a folder named "HOLD" in his Aircraft directory. He may find one or more planes that is the problem. Once he has them all he can find the problem and fix it.
I may have just axed them and why I don't remember the problem or the fix, may have just redownloaded and installed to get around this issue. I just can't remember to save my life right now.
The course to find is as described, start at the top.
Rick

good news. I think what you suggested to me earlier is working for me so far. I'll keep you updated.

[pete]

Glad to hear you resolved this.

Just a note - it's always worth looking that the FAQ's - this is also covered there.

[Hagar]

There are three files named airplane.jpg, helicopter.jpg & thumbnail.jpg which live in the FSX\Uires folder. I've attached mine below. If yours are missing download them & paste them in.

Please tell me if this helps.

I already have those thumbnail downloads installed and it hasn't fixed the issue. what should I try next? I have a thousand aircraft on my flight simulator, and it's pretty difficult, if not impossible, for me to find out which one is problematic.

Hmmm. That's odd. Are you sure those files I mentioned are in the Uires folder?
Check out this topic --> http://forums.simviation.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=170396

[Evan Popchock]

There are three files named airplane.jpg, helicopter.jpg & thumbnail.jpg which live in the FSX\Uires folder. I've attached mine below. If yours are missing download them & paste them in.

Please tell me if this helps.

I already have those thumbnail downloads installed and it hasn't fixed the issue. what should I try next? I have a thousand aircraft on my flight simulator, and it's pretty difficult, if not impossible, for me to find out which one is problematic.

Hmmm. That's odd. Are you sure those files I mentioned are in the Uires folder?
Check out this topic --> http://forums.simviation.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=170396

absolutely, and just to update you on something, I initially solved the problem by moving some of my aircraft add-ons to a folder named HOLD, and I tried reinstalling the aircraft that were causing the problem and unfortunately, that didn't fix the issue. As soon as I reinstalled those aircraft onto FSX, the same thing occurred again with the last 50 or so aircraft thumbnail images getting mixed up. Maybe if I try reinstalling them one by one, that should help, but I am not sure...haven't tried that yet.

[Azframer]

Well I would just remove the reinstalled and look into those you have isolated in the hold folder and find the problem. Make sure all have thumbnails. If they do check structure of config folder making sure the number of planes in list in config match number of planes textures in that particular folder.

Rick

[Hagar]

I already have those thumbnail downloads installed and it hasn't fixed the issue. what should I try next? I have a thousand aircraft on my flight simulator, and it's pretty difficult, if not impossible, for me to find out which one is problematic.

Hmmm. That's odd. Are you sure those files I mentioned are in the Uires folder?
Check out this topic --> http://forums.simviation.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=170396

absolutely,

I find that difficult to understand. There must be a simple explanation. However;

and just to update you on something, I initially solved the problem by moving some of my aircraft add-ons to a folder named HOLD, and I tried reinstalling the aircraft that were causing the problem and unfortunately, that didn't fix the issue. As soon as I reinstalled those aircraft onto FSX, the same thing occurred again with the last 50 or so aircraft thumbnail images getting mixed up. Maybe if I try reinstalling them one by one, that should help, but I am not sure...haven't tried that yet.

To add to Rick's comments. There has to be a fault with one or more of the aircraft you isolated. Simply reinstalling them without identifying it won't fix the problem. The fault is most likely missing thumbnails so you need to carefully check each Texture folder of every problem aircraft (most aircraft have more than one variation) for a file in JPEG format named thumbnail.jpg. If any are missing then you have found the cause of your problem. This is easily fixed by adding a screenshot of the variation of the aircraft named thumbnail.jpg to the appropriate Texture folder(s). The size of the image is not important. Then reinstall the aircraft to FSX one at a time, checking each one on the FSX Select Aircraft menu making sure it displays properly before moving on to the next one. Note that more than one of your aircraft might have caused the original problem.

One thousand aircraft seems an incredible amount of aircraft to have installed to FSX. You can't possibly use them all. This might the ideal time to weed out some of those that you don't need. This should have a noticeable effect on the loading time of FSX.

[Evan Popchock]

Problem solved. I downloaded this tool called Aircrafter, and that rearranged the non-thumbnail images of my aircraft to the right place, thus matching all the other thumbnails with the appropriate aircraft. I also downloaded new freeware thumbnail images from Simviation.com, and matched the appropriate thumbnail images with most of the aircraft in my FSX collection that didn't have thumbnails.

[Hagar]

Problem solved. I downloaded this tool called Aircrafter, and that rearranged the non-thumbnail images of my aircraft to the right place, thus matching all the other thumbnails with the appropriate aircraft. I also downloaded new freeware thumbnail images from Simviation.com, and matched the appropriate thumbnail images with most of the aircraft in my FSX collection that didn't have thumbnails.

Glad you fixed it. Aircrafter sounds like a handy tool. For anyone interested you can get it here --> http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=aircrafter_15.zip&categoryId=

[bombardier]

hey evan popchock:

heres a stupid question, can you delete your planes and reinstall them from your saved place like a flash drive or an external hard drive. you see every download of planes I did, i have it copied to my flash drive and my external hard drive so that way if any issues comes up I can delete it from the airplanes folder and go to my back up and reinstall it. I'm just trying to get some knowledge from you and from others so if I run into trouble I know what to ask.


I did not know it looks like you have saved your planes sorry about this post

bomberdier

[jandjfrench]

Good Heavens! This is such a common problem I thought that anyone that had been around FSX for more than a week or two would be aware of the solution. In fact, it's so common that I've saved a text snippet to use as boilerplate should the need arise:

" If an aircraft has a panel folder and the texture folders don't contain thumbnails and the FSX Uires folder has neither an airplane.jpg nor thumbnail.jpg the aircraft will display in the selection screen with the thumbnails of the succeeding aircraft."

It's my hunch that people get a bit overzealous in their housekeeping and delete these needed files.

[Azframer]

jandjfrench Your hunch is dead wrong, it happened to me and I never delete anything from my FSX folder.


Rick

[jandjfrench]

Hi rick,
On all previous occasions the problem with the display of incorrect images has been due to the files being missing from the "UIRES" folder. I saw that Evan was the one with the problem. I haven't read the posts thoroughly and wasn't saying that you had deleted these or any other files.

I hope that Evan will post if this is indeed his problem.