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Maybe mentioned this before about restore..‏

Paul Anderson

Paul Anderson

Charter Member
Microsoft restore has incorrect information because dumbed down for the masses.
Says you will not lose any work - bullsh*t.
Each airplane in fsx has an aircraft.cfg entry to describe/override flight characteristics. They are gone for aircraft added since restore point - can't work, redownload and install aircraft to get the cfg file.
So applies to new paints as well.
Changes made to scenery.cg, fsx.cfg, also reset.
New files with exe extention are gone, reload any programs that you have added with this extention you need if added since restore point.
There are many other file extentions that Microsoft considers one of their (only/operating system) own.
Note that the file extentsions screwed up/lost in flght simulator was also produced by Microsoft.
Would have thought they would have at least excluded their own separately marketed stuff.
Feel better now after venting, now what else did I miss?
 
A restore will roll back everything to the point when the restore was made, so if there is anything you want to keep, you must save that externally somehow.

Microsoft instructions are pretty much USELESS on anything, in must cases you have to take a fall to find out ...
 
Data Destroyed

Paul,
I feel your pain. Being there-done that. Well it feels like being violated and blind-sided to boot. I have done some really nice FDE's, which involve the aircraft.cfg or course, but lost them due to having to do system restore. Drats! No warning-nothing-just BAM. And it (MS) takes the model, panel and sound cfg's too. Son of a gone! Not fair! Plain ole stupid! But what can you do. Idiots. Now I back up by right click of cfg's and do a 'Copy of xxx.cfg'. Then I rename it 'Copy of xxx.cfg.txt'. It (MS) objects but I just hit enter for change and it's then 'safe' to do Restore.
Chuck B
Napamule
 
there's just no substitute for data storage. removable drives, discs, online storage...
there's about a katrillion ways to do it, but you still gotta actually do it. there's no getting around it without taking a risk of losing data that has value to you. it's easy to do, and besides - storage is cheap these days. that means there's no excuse for not doing it.
 
This is very interesting to me because I just did a restore last week. I read the part of the instructions that said "your documents will not be affected", but I backed them all up first anyway, just in case. But, I forgot one... After the restore was done I went back to check on the forgotten file, and sure enough, it was unaffected. But my restore was to a "restore point" that was only a couple days old. There must be something we're (or at least I) don't fully understand about how restore works. Maybe it depends on where the documents are. I have all mine in a folder called "c:\data", and not in "my documents" or anyplace like that. In any case, as others have pointed out, some kind of backup plan is good to have...

- Paul
 
I can confirm that .cfg in the aircraft folder are affected when doing a restore. I had an unfortunate total W7 freeze when using FS9 & could only get out of it by doing a Safe Mode restore. Luckily I spotted the snag & managed eventually to restore back to a point 2 days old & so regain the panel.cfg I was working on......
Keith
 
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