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When you encounter problems, try deleting the files, but '''always''' keep the <code>fgfs.log</code> and <code>fgfs_0.log</code> log files to help in troubleshooting. | When you encounter problems, try deleting the files, but '''always''' keep the <code>fgfs.log</code> and <code>fgfs_0.log</code> log files to help in troubleshooting. | ||
== Power Users == | |||
Note you can also override FG_HOME in the environment, to have totally distinct installs - this would be my recommend approach to running multiple versions in parallel. | |||
(The installers will always replace the stable / dev version as other commenters pointed out, so you can't use those so easily, you need to copy files around - I'm nota Windows expert so I don't know if there something that could be changed or improved here) | |||
If you start multiple instances (the same version or different) of FGFS using the same value of FG_HOME (whether that be the default or a custom one), we use a lock file to ensure only one (the first) has write access. The rest will go into read-only mode, and as you can maybe guess, treat FG_HOME as read-only. | |||
Sharing of aircraft / scenery is entirely about which paths are configured, BTW. However, one final caveat is that having multiple instances both running TerraSync, using the same terrasync dir, would likely act a bit funny. It ought to actually work, but it might download some things twice, and it's not a tested or supported configuration for the moment.<ref>{{cite web | |||
|url = https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=304170#p304170 | |||
|title = <nowiki> Re: Is it possible to install multiple instanes of FG in Win </nowiki> | |||
|author = <nowiki> zakalawe </nowiki> | |||
|date = Jan 25th, 2017 | |||
|added = Jan 25th, 2017 | |||
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