SF8 F-86 blank textures

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SSI01

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Just downloaded and installed some of Jocko's textures into my Section F8 F-86 and discovered I've lost the intake/exhaust plug, external power unit, landing gear and interior surfaces plus cockpit instruments (in external view) textures. What happened?
 
In the original download of the aircraft you were instructed to put those particular textures into your main texture folder.

If you did that I don't know why they wouldn't show up. Do they still display ok on previous repaints?
 
Went back to the F-86 home page and downloaded the base package. Went into the base package and discovered the missing textures. Installed them into each individual aircraft texture folder to ensure they were available when needed.

I keep all aircraft in a master file on an external hard drive, called "Hangar." This after two crashes in the past that necessitated reinstalling all aircraft from scratch via zipped files. What happens, for some reason, is when the aircraft files are moved from the "Hangar" folder to the FS9 "Aircraft" folder, these textures did not transfer.
 
As long as you transfer those files to each repaint you download you'll be fine.

All repaint downloads that I've installed assume those files are in the texture folder so they only install the files unique to that repaint.
 
I'm not sure what's happened when I made those duplicate FS9 installations, one for the 1950s, one for the 1960s, and also Golden Wings for everything up to 1950. I transferred all the necessary folders from the original FS9 into the dupes, so you would have thought the common F-86 files would have transferred along with them. Looks like they didn't. I've had a lot of weird things happen with FS9 on this machine. Example - I can install an unlimited number of textures plus add-on sceneries. However, I haven't installed any effects from downloads at all (though I've saved them in their own folder), and am using the default FS9 effects, because that's what caused the sim to crash the last time - there was some kind of problem with it reading the effects from the Flying Stations Canberras, and that locked the sim up. I saw an app some time ago that purports to clean the sim's registry files. Is there any validity to that claim, and is it worth cleaning just the sim's registry files?
 
If you started a new thread asking about the value of cleaning your registry you will get opinions all over the map.

I have heard from some folks who claim that regularly cleaning your registry is THE key to smooth and stable computing.

I've heard others claim it has nothing but a placebo effect, and can in fact be harmful if done wrong.

Myself, I have no opinion as I have never cleaned my registry.
 
One of my security programs - I think it's Spybot Search & Destroy, but I don't recall right now - will pop a box when it encounters an installed registry cleaner. It says, "It has never been demonstrated that cleaning the registry speeds up or improves computer performance in any way. We do not recommend the purchase of software that cannot be shown to have any useful function." (Or something close to that wording.)

For years I made cleaning the registry a part of my weekly computer tuning and maintenance. Then s few year ago I stopped doing it, and my computer didn't get any slower, at least not so I could detect it.
 
Words of wisdom from both viewpoints. Time to assimilate, digest, and decide. Thank you, gentlemen.:salute:
 
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