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So I seem to have lost all my repaints except the originals... All of them are in my Aircraft.cfg and when double checking recently I also found SpitAircraft.cfg and copied all of them to that, too, but no luck. Am I missing something?

-Dave

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Maybe you unchecked "show all variations" in aircraft selection menu?

Are they all in the correct order number wise and also without spaces. If the first one is off then all others after it may not display either.

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Show all variations definitely checked, I have all my paints for other planes. And I just checked now, all entries are properly numbered in Aircraft.cfg.

-Dave

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Any new thoughts here? Should I perhaps delete one of the cfg files?

-Dave

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Someone here or in another forum just went through this same issue. In his case
there were extra, non-printing characters that somehow found their way into
his aircraft.cfg file and caused all entries below that point to not display.

If I were you I would make a copy of your aircraft.cfg file. Lets call that 'cfg2'
and your original aircraft.cfg file 'cfg1'.

In cfg1, delete all the [fltsim.x] entries below the last one that appears in your
selection menu.

Then in cfg2, copy the next [fltsim.x] section and paste it into cfg1. Fire up
FSX and see if the added livery appears. If so, do the same for each of
the additional entries.

If it doesn't appear, look VERY carefully at that [fltsim.x] section and pay
attention to possible typos or lines that don't look similar to those in
the entries that do display.

When copying and pasting start just at the beginning of the [fltsim.x],
the first bsquare bracket, down to the last character in the last line of that
entry so you won't pick up any non-printing characters in the lines above or
below that section of text.

If all else fails, post a copy of your aircraft.cfg file here and someone
should be able to debug it. I'm far from my sim computer so I am unable
to take on that task.

Paul

Mkay, went piece by piece through it and everything still looks good. Tried your method of clearing the extras and pasting in one to check and no luck there, either. Where's a good place to upload the file? Are there any utilities I could use to check it myself?

-Dave

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You could just copy & paste the section containing all the [fltsim.x]
entries into a post here. Then perhaps someone could debug it.

I've never had any aircraft.cfg issues so have never investigated
any utilities that deal with the file.

Are all the addon liveries of the same model, Mk1a, MkIIa, MKIIb or
are they mixed? If all your default, as shipped, liveries are present
in the selection menu I can conclude that there isn't a missing mdl
or air file.

There aren't that many lines in each [fltsim.x] that would affect the
display of the livery in the selection menu.

The [fltsim.x] number must be in sequence, the sim=, model=, panel=
entries must point to the correct file or folder or if blank, to the default.

The texture= entries should have the texture folder name excluding the
'texture.' position, so just the name beyond the texture. part

The only other suggestion I can make is that, if you still have the original
download files for the additional liveries, you re-install them using the
aircraft.cfg sections included in the respective readme files.

Paul

Wow, found them. Looks like the manufacturer was changed in the update so all my additional paints are way down the list in FSX but still there. Thanks for the help, anyhow, guys!

-Dave

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