Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 3:00 amGreetings to all here from a newcomer to the forums. I really like this website even though I am far away from New Zealand and living in Texas. I have found many answers to FSX issues here and wanted to say thanks first.
I think I have found a problem that there is no solution for. I have been enjoying my FSX program for a couple of years now. Total logbook hours are starting to add up. I also enjoy getting the different awards in my pilot records. My problem is this. As all of you know, the quest to get good performance out of the program is a pursuit unto itself and as a result I have had the program installed on a total of three different machines in order to arrive at a setup that runs good and is truly enjoyable to fly. The install on the first machine (and it's logbook records) are lost forever because I did not save any of the data. But the second machine was used for flying quite a bit before I finished building and started using my current rig. I want to somehow find a way to combine the logbook.BIN files from both machines so that I have the totals shown on my current rig in the logbook/rewards. I have searched and searched and found two different logbook file editing & repair programs. I downloaded and tried both of them but neither one seems capable of combining two different FSX logbook.BIN files. One program even makes a provision for importing a FS9 logbook file over to FSX, but I can find no way to do the same procedure with another FSX logbook.BIN file. It also allows a maunal, line by line edit operation, to duplicate the old logbook records into the new logbook. That would be too time consuming and tedious and I want to avoid that. The one useful thing I have managed to learn is how to avoid this in the future. I need to import my old logbook.BIN file before doing any flying after a clean FSX install. I wish I had known that when I first set up my third rig. I guess I was too busy focusing on the multitude of other tweaks to achieve the best performance and did not even think about the old logbook at the time. Has anyone else had this problem? Did they find a solution? I have searched and searched and any time I find a forum that really addresses my particular problem the answer seems to be that there is no way to do this. I have even tried to open both logbook.BIN files in a notepad and copy one over to the other. I am obviously missing something there because when I try to use that file it shows my logbook hours as zero. Any help, or consolation/commiseration for that matter, would be truly appreciated.
I think I have found a problem that there is no solution for. I have been enjoying my FSX program for a couple of years now. Total logbook hours are starting to add up. I also enjoy getting the different awards in my pilot records. My problem is this. As all of you know, the quest to get good performance out of the program is a pursuit unto itself and as a result I have had the program installed on a total of three different machines in order to arrive at a setup that runs good and is truly enjoyable to fly. The install on the first machine (and it's logbook records) are lost forever because I did not save any of the data. But the second machine was used for flying quite a bit before I finished building and started using my current rig. I want to somehow find a way to combine the logbook.BIN files from both machines so that I have the totals shown on my current rig in the logbook/rewards. I have searched and searched and found two different logbook file editing & repair programs. I downloaded and tried both of them but neither one seems capable of combining two different FSX logbook.BIN files. One program even makes a provision for importing a FS9 logbook file over to FSX, but I can find no way to do the same procedure with another FSX logbook.BIN file. It also allows a maunal, line by line edit operation, to duplicate the old logbook records into the new logbook. That would be too time consuming and tedious and I want to avoid that. The one useful thing I have managed to learn is how to avoid this in the future. I need to import my old logbook.BIN file before doing any flying after a clean FSX install. I wish I had known that when I first set up my third rig. I guess I was too busy focusing on the multitude of other tweaks to achieve the best performance and did not even think about the old logbook at the time. Has anyone else had this problem? Did they find a solution? I have searched and searched and any time I find a forum that really addresses my particular problem the answer seems to be that there is no way to do this. I have even tried to open both logbook.BIN files in a notepad and copy one over to the other. I am obviously missing something there because when I try to use that file it shows my logbook hours as zero. Any help, or consolation/commiseration for that matter, would be truly appreciated.
... I'm sure most people on NZFF have got that T-shirt!
- but a binary file (.bin etc.) will probably be *compiled* form some original source code. Even if you know what the code was developed with (C++ or whatever), without the source you may be stuffed. The odd hex-edit (changing a value) may occasionally work, but I think you're on a loser there!