by wkitty42 » Sun Apr 07, 2019 1:29 pm
FWIW: the reason it takes so long to download the scenery is because FG has to check, calculate, and validate the checksums for all the files in the terrasync scenery directory... once it has them all checked and validated, it should be faster...
there are over a million files in all of the world scenery for FG to deal with... it doesn't have to do all of the files but it will check the ones you already have for the location you are in as long as they are properly placed in the terrasync directory tree... if you have the scenery in a different directory than where FG automatically puts it, then it will have to download the files again... files that you may have in your terrasync directory tree that are not on the servers will be removed and those you do not have will be downloaded...
at the time of this post, there are currently:
46464 subdirectories containing
1833479 files totaling
90.1 GiB (96700487102 bytes)
in the terrasync base directory... this includes all of the Airports, Buildings, Models, Objects, Pylons, Roads, and Terrain directories...
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"Why not?" said Gurder.
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