FSUIPC7 profils for different aircrafts

[niki21]

Hello, 
I need your help setting up profiles in the FSUIPC 7.
I purchased the FSUIPC 7 software yesterday.
I am interested in making several profiles for different aircrafts.
I know that this is possible, so I opened a document called "Profiles in Separate Files."
I did everything listed in the document and I actually closed and opened the software and a "profiles" folder was added.
I opened the folder and there is no file in it. The folder is empty even when I started the simulator and closed it. I made several changes to the profile. I set up various switches on the throttle that work fine in Flight Simulator, but I don't know how the profile is saved. In the FSUIPC software itself, there is no place related to profiles or how to save or how to upload a saved profile.

[John Dowson]

First, to understand profiles you should read the section User profiles for all control settings, on page 22 of the FSUIPC7 User manual/guide. Profiles are enabled automatically. 
Having profiles in separate files is generally only used if you have many profiles and these are quite large, as it separates them into different files. You do not have to use this feature when using profiles if you don't want to, but if you have already switched to profiles-in-separate files then thats ok.

8 minutes ago, niki21 said:

I opened the folder and there is no file in it. The folder is empty even when I started the simulator and closed it. I made several changes to the profile. I set up various switches on the throttle that work fine in Flight Simulator, but I don't know how the profile is saved. In the FSUIPC software itself, there is no place related to profiles or how to save or how to upload a saved profile.

The changes you made will only be saved in the profile (and in the profile-specific file) if you clicked the profile-specific checkbox (in the assignments panel) when adding the assignment, and when you have added the currently loaded aircraft to a profile (or have created a new profile for the aircraft). Check your FSUIPC7.ini - they will have been added there to the general sections if you did not specify profile-specific.

Note that when you create a new profile for an aircraft, or add an aircraft to an existing profile, it is a good idea to shorten the aircraft name (listed under the [Profile.xxx] section of your FSUIPC7.ini file) to a substring that matches all variants of that aircraft. This will prevent issues with the profile not being loaded when you use a new variant. Alternatively, you can set the UseAirLocForProfiles in parameter to Yes to perform matching on the aircraft folder name instead, but if you want to use this then do it now before adding the aircraft name/title to the profile. Again, see that section in the User manual for more details.

John

[niki21]

14 minutes ago, John Dowson said:

First, to understand profiles you should read the section User profiles for all control settings, on page 22 of the FSUIPC7 User manual/guide. Profiles are enabled automatically. 
Having profiles in separate files is generally only used if you have many profiles and these are quite large, as it separates them into different files. You do not have to use this feature when using profiles if you don't want to, but if you have already switched to profiles-in-separate files then thats ok.

The changes you made will only be saved in the profile (and in the profile-specific file) if you clicked the profile-specific checkbox (in the assignments panel) when adding the assignment, and when you have added the currently loaded aircraft to a profile (or have created a new profile for the aircraft). Check your FSUIPC7.ini - they will have been added there to the general sections if you did not specify profile-specific.

Note that when you create a new profile for an aircraft, or add an aircraft to an existing profile, it is a good idea to shorten the aircraft name (listed under the [Profile.xxx] section of your FSUIPC7.ini file) to a substring that matches all variants of that aircraft. This will prevent issues with the profile not being loaded when you use a new variant. Alternatively, you can set the UseAirLocForProfiles in parameter to Yes to perform matching on the aircraft folder name instead, but if you want to use this then do it now before adding the aircraft name/title to the profile. Again, see that section in the User manual for more details.

John

Thank you very much John, you helped me a lot.
I missed the "profile-specific checkbox (in the assignments panel)".