GSX stopped automatically updating the airport scenery cache

[WebMaximus]

For some reason GSX no longer updates/refreshes it's airport scenery cache when a change has been made to the FSX scenery library.

I found out by searching for this issue that you can force a refresh by deleting the C:\ProgramData\Virtuali\Couatl folder. This solved the problem the other day but now I'm back in the same situation again where GSX for some reason has stopped updating the airport cache automatically. This results in an error message when I go to the airport where I did a scenery change and try to start GSX. This is the error message I get:

System error while accessing file path and filename: CreateFile failed: The system cannot find the file specified (system:2)

Any idea why this happens and how I can fix so it will permanently work automatically again without me having to manually deleting the folder mentioned above as soon as I did a change to the FSX scenery?

[virtuali]

Any idea why this happens and how I can fix so it will permanently work automatically again without me having to manually deleting the folder mentioned above as soon as I did a change to the FSX scenery?

The message simply indicates that a scenery listed in the GSX cache doesn't exists anymore, which means the cache hasn't been updated. GSX should detect any changes to the Scenery Library automatically and will update its cache, what you are describing shouldn't normally happen.

A possible explanation might be some other program that is modifying the scenery library or is keeping a lock on files. A flight planner, or anything that reads from the Scenery Library might cause this.

If this is the case, either you close that program when making manual changes to the Scenery Library, or you must always remove the GSX cache folders. Note that, GSX doesn't even try to detect changes to the Scenery Library itself, it just monitor FSX OWN scenery cache, and updates its own when the FSX cache changes. This means, whatever is causing this, is affecting even FSX itself, not just GSX.

[WebMaximus]

Thanks for your very quick support Umberto!

When I've seen this I haven't had any other addons running so that shouldn't be the problem with locked files as you describe.

Also what you describe how GSX doesn't check for changes to the scenery library itself but relies on FSX seems strange because when I've done a change to the scenery I always see when I start FSX how it refreshes the scenery library but still I don't see the GSX line at the top of the screen after loading a flight and how GSX updates the scenery.

Very strange this because I've been running GSX for a long time and haven't had this issue in the past.

[WebMaximus]

I enabled logging in GSX and this is what the log looks like. Skimmed through it myself but couldn't find anything particulary interesting other than the error messages at the end.

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couatl v2.0 (build 2356)
log started on Fri Jan 24 14:35:03 2014

connecting to SimConnect...
connected to FSX
connected to bglmanx
Loading addons
requesting AddOn list to bglmanx
bglmanx list contains 20 AddOn(s)
Loading addon OHareX
Addon OHareX not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
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Device info:
Major version: 1
Minor version: 1
Frequency: 44100
Refresh: 40
Sync: 0
Mono sources: 255
Stereo sources: 1
Extensions: ALC_ENUMERATE_ALL_EXT ALC_ENUMERATION_EXT ALC_EXT_CAPTURE ALC_EXT_EFX

Context info:
Vendor: Creative Labs Inc.
Version: 1.1
Renderer: Software
Extensions: EAX EAX2.0 EAX3.0 EAX4.0 EAX5.0 EAX3.0EMULATED EAX4.0EMULATED AL_EXT_OFFSET AL_EXT_LINEAR_DISTANCE AL_EXT_EXPONENT_DISTANCE

Using EFX 1.0 extension, with 1 auxiliary send(s)
Using EAX reverb
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Starting system monitors
Current locale is Swedish_Sweden.1252
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intelliscene.cfg provides aircraft data with priority 1
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[WebMaximus]

Still no idea why this doesn't work anymore and why GSX doesn't "see" when the FSX scenery library is updated but for anyone else with the same problem I found an easy work-around.

I created a cmd file with this text

del C:\ProgramData\Virtuali\Couatl\. /Q

Then whenever I do an airport scenery update of some kind I simply double-click this cmd file forcing GSX to update it's airport scenery cache next time FSX/Coutl is started.