Sorry Barry I think you’re right. Austin changed the way Open Dialogs worked in early 10.10 and broke things requiring users to restart before their aircraft would show up. Thats when people started to notice the slow down.

“…if you’re a hoarder and you have a HUGE amount of content in your X-Plane folder, you may notice a delay when opening new Aircraft/Airfoils/Objects etc. This delay always existed but it used to ONLY happen during sim load so it was hidden.” After 6+ years of nearly-daily x-plane.org visits, I’m a hoarder (though I don’t keep all my custom scenery in that folder – I myself created the “Custom Scenery (disabled)” folder; no plugin did it for me and it worked flawlessly until 10.10Beta). And there was never any delay when opening new aircraft or other folders.

“This is done intentionally as many users have asked for this behavior.” It’s hard to believe that others haven’t been getting this feature through previous generations. X-Plane always did these things on my system. That’s why I contacted you with a “bug” when it didn’t do what it had always done before.

Anyways it looks like there’s a solution to get me back to “status quo”. 😉

Okay, the post swallows certain symbols. Should be:

“For shunts below n-mph the insurers saved money; for shunts above n-mph the extra cost of the bumpers nixed all the previous savings.”

Many users probably expected XP wouldn’t be hunting around for airplanes outside of the Aircraft folder. The problem reminds me of the n-mph bumpers automotive era. For shunts n-mph the extra costs of the bumpers nixed nixed all the savings.

These extra features cost more time and inconvenience than they save me. One workaround is hard and fast rules — any rules. Example: If an .acf is found in one folder, the probe won’t search another layer down for other aircraft. (That would miss the X-1 Cavallo because other .acf files are found inside the Experimental folder.) Oh well, one way or another we’ll find some modus vivendi.

Hoarders of Custom Scenery are another matter though. The single layer of haphazardly named folders makes thinning that folder temporarily down to continents or countries not worth the bother.

Aircraft yes…I don’t think this is the case for scenery however. The feature is only for DIALOG population. The scenery system is different.

No need for reply feel free to delete the comments. Figured there was a discrepancy in the listing vs live feature. Just wanted to confirm that difference earlier in case the updater was flawed.

Thanks