FSX Logbook - a reminder

Naismith

Naismith

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Last night I went to bed thinking "groan! am I going to have to reinstall this damned thing again" I had been unable to get it to run all day. I tried deleting the fsx.cfg. backed up the exe.xml and dll.xml at various times during the day and still it would not run. I ran the Acceleration fixes, and the whole CD fix. Nothing. By nightfall I thought I had exhausted all the tricks to get it up and running and gave up thinking today would be a slog doing the whole reinstall thing and never mind the MS activation process - all such a drag.

I woke this a.m. and remembered I had cut a few entries in the logbook the previous day, and had mistakenly edited one out of sequence. Eureka moment! I deleted the Logbook.bin file and praise be to (insert your favoured deity here) it ran.

Such a minor and innocuous file yet it can wreak havoc.
 
There are so many ways to ground FSX. I had forgotten this one. There is a freeware FSX logbook editor (logbookeditor-0.3) that fixes log book problems and allows editing any entry. That has helped me fix some of these before.
 
Naismith said:
Last night I went to bed thinking "groan! am I going to have to reinstall this damned thing again" I had been unable to get it to run all day. I tried deleting the fsx.cfg. backed up the exe.xml and dll.xml at various times during the day and still it would not run. I ran the Acceleration fixes, and the whole CD fix. Nothing. By nightfall I thought I had exhausted all the tricks to get it up and running and gave up thinking today would be a slog doing the whole reinstall thing and never mind the MS activation process - all such a drag.

I woke this a.m. and remembered I had cut a few entries in the logbook the previous day, and had mistakenly edited one out of sequence. Eureka moment! I deleted the Logbook.bin file and praise be to (insert your favoured deity here) it ran.

Such a minor and innocuous file yet it can wreak havoc.
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You did the thing that has helped solve almost all of my most vexing Flight simulation problems. Going to bed before I did anything as drastic as a reinstall. Sleeping on the problem. When my frustration rises to a fever pitch, its time to go to bed. You are a smart man., Naismith.

JP
 
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