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My mess-up aftermath

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In lieu of the mayhem I caused myself I was wondering what I did wrong to cause FSX to freeze. I've worked with computers long enough to know that "things" just happen and am ready to hang up the incident and place it in the area of "Things Happened".

But before I do that I had a couple of BGL/XML/Airport related questions.

1. How sensitive is add-on scenery BGL naming to FSX?
Is any valid, windows accepted name also true for FSX? What I am thinking of is there a difference between theory and practice.

2. Is FSX sensitive to having different names in the BGL file names as compared to the file name referenced in the XML file?
My son happened to be around me and the computer when the mess-up occurred, and he pointed out that I changed a file name before the mess-up occurred. When I thought about it I had in fact compiled a BGL file and then changed the name of the file. Could a difference between the actual file name and the referenced file name cause problems?

Any thoughts, ideas or advise is welcome. Thanks again for all of the help!
 
I think your problem was that you used ADE to create the AFD file initially but you then decompiled the bgl, modified the xml and re-compiled. It would have been much better to stick with one program to create the airfield.

File names have no significance in FSX, it is the file content which is important.

George
 
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