FG 3.0.0 rc2 misterious subdir 2 created (scenery ?)

[mhab]

Hello

When I run FG 3.0.0 rc2 on my Win7 64-Bit I find that in FG directory a directory named "2" is created with subdirs "Objects", "Terrain"
(i.e. parallel to bin,scenery, data, etc.)
They remain empty ...

My suspicion is that this happens because --terrasync-dir=2 is set by fgrun.exe.
This is related to my --fg-scenery=dir1;dir2 setting, where the second directory is supposed to be used by terrasync ...

Mike-DE

[sa7k]

Yes, that is what happens. If you set in your command line --terrasync-dir="something" then the "something" directory is created if it did not exist. I think that if you don't set an actual path it creates it in the user's home dir. It probably stays empty until you actually enable terrasync.

[mhab]

Nice explanation, but a severe bug !!!
It is supposed to use the directory set in first screen of FGRUN.exe and not literally "2"

Hope this get's fixed for FG 3.0.0 release

[Philosopher]

...I don't think that's ever been supported, so just use literal paths for the terra sync option. The point is actually that the opposite happens: the directory for --terrasync-dir= automatically appears at the end of the --fg-scenery= option (if it isn't already in the scenery path(s)).

[mhab]

Well

Then it is a misleading incompatibility from prevoius versions
I changed from 2.12 to 3.0.0
I never entered or set --terrasync-dir=2. It was there after I used FGRUN 3.0 and FGRUN 3.0 has lost it's setting for terrasync directory.
Don't know why this happended. It is NOT an improvement and adds confusion.

Mike-DE

[Gijs]

See the explanations by James and myself in viewtopic.php?p=192307#p192307 The wiki has been.updated accordingly http://wiki.flightgear.org/TerraSync#Fl ... _and_later

The fact that the TerraSync directory defaults to a number is a bug. I believe Clément already fixed it for the next RC