Lost presets after reinstall

[SliderCDN]

I hastily reinstalled FSUIPC and realized myevents file is gone with all the presets I had for various addons I use (PMDG, Fenix, Blacksquare, etc), including some I added myself.

I had FSUIPC installed for a few years without using any advanced functions until few days ago when I added couple of lines for Blacksquare aircraft in that file, which already had probably few hundred various presets/events in there.

Is it possible to recover this file somehow? If I remember, it should be in the installation folder?

 

Thank you kindly

[John Dowson]

49 minutes ago, SliderCDN said:

I hastily reinstalled FSUIPC and realized myevents file is gone with all the presets I had for various addons I use (PMDG, Fenix, Blacksquare, etc), including some I added myself.

Installing/re-installing does not touch the myevents.txt file - if it is gone you have either manually removed it, or possibly you have re-installed into a different folder. Did you change the installation location? If so, the file will be in your old installation folder. You can also check the UninstallFSUIPC7.log file which will list the files it has removed.

53 minutes ago, SliderCDN said:

Is it possible to recover this file somehow? If I remember, it should be in the installation folder?

 It should be in your installation folder, but if its not there then, as I said, you have either manually removed it or possibly installed into a different folder.
Try searching your system for this file - you can use Everything or something similar.
If the file is not on your system, there will be no way to recover it.

John

[SliderCDN]

@John Dowson Thanks for reply, however, events.txt (not myevents) was indeed deleted and is in the log. I didn't have myevents.txt at all. After reinstalling, it wasn't readded.

My folder after reinstall:

 

Someone else's for comparison:

 

Is it possible for you to upload it for me? Or how can I get it back myself?

 

EDIT: I think I know what happened: events.txt is related to Mobiflight? If so, then I added few lines into that one, instead of making myevents.txt which will stay preserved. Not realizing this, during reinstall, I didn't select Mobiflights option.

 

UninstallFSUIPC7.log

[John Dowson]

1 minute ago, SliderCDN said:

however, events.txt (not myevents) was indeed deleted and is in the log.

Yes - the events.txt file is ALWAYS deleted when you uninstall, and re-installed when you install (provided you have not de-selected the install component for this). The myevents.txt file is never touched - this file is not known to the installer or uninstaller. This is why you add your own presets to the myevents.txt file and not the events.txt file. The latter is managed by the installer/uninstaller, whereas the former is managed by you.

5 minutes ago, SliderCDN said:

Is it possible for you to upload it for me? Or how can I get it back myself?

No, as I have no idea what you added to your myevents.txt file. I have my own, of course, but it will be completely different to the one you were using.

As I said, you have to try and find it on your system - you are the only one with that file, and it is created and managed by you. If it has gone, then you must have deleted it.

Please don't attach images - far better to attach files, i.e. it is your InstallFSUIPC7.log file that would tell me what was installed, not a screenshot. Your screenshots do show that you have Explorer set to hide the extensions of known file-types - best to change this. Also looks like you deselected the option to install the MF events.txt file for some reason. If you didn't do this, there may be an error in your installation log but I doubt this very much as there has never been an issue installing this file.

[SliderCDN]

17 minutes ago, John Dowson said:

Yes - the events.txt file is ALWAYS deleted when you uninstall, and re-installed when you install (provided you have not de-selected the install component for this). The myevents.txt file is never touched - this file is not known to the installer or uninstaller. This is why you add your own presets to the myevents.txt file and not the events.txt file. The latter is managed by the installer/uninstaller, whereas the former is managed by you.

No, as I have no idea what you added to your myevents.txt file. I have my own, of course, but it will be completely different to the one you were using.

As I said, you have to try and find it on your system - you are the only one with that file, and it is created and managed by you. If it has gone, then you must have deleted it.

Please don't attach images - far better to attach files, i.e. it is your InstallFSUIPC7.log file that would tell me what was installed, not a screenshot. Your screenshots do show that you have Explorer set to hide the extensions of known file-types - best to change this. Also looks like you deselected the option to install the MF events.txt file for some reason. If you didn't do this, there may be an error in your installation log but I doubt this very much as there has never been an issue installing this file.

 

Indeed you are correct, as I have edited my above post when I realized what happened. I am just learning the advanced functions of FSUIPC, so I made a mistake.

All is okay now, you can close or delete this thread.

Thank you for your excellent work!

[John Dowson]

1 hour ago, SliderCDN said:

EDIT: I think I know what happened: events.txt is related to Mobiflight? If so, then I added few lines into that one, instead of making myevents.txt which will stay preserved. Not realizing this, during reinstall, I didn't select Mobiflights option.

Ok, then you will have lost any presets that you added to the events.txt file. You should only add events to the myevents.txt file - that is why this is provided, and leave the events.txt dile for the MF presets, which is updated on each release.

You could check your recycle bin to see if your old events.txt file is there. If so, restore that but then move the presets you added to that to the myevent.txt file instead,

40 minutes ago, SliderCDN said:

Thank you for your excellent work!

Thanks!

John