Area 120 Scenery Error

[Illegally Flying]

Ive been getting this message where when i boot up FSX it says something about area 120, and then when i try to use my scenery addons it says theres an error

[JJ FSX]

To prevent this don't delete or move scenery files that are referenced/active in the FSX scenery library. Now you need to:

1. Open the scenery.cfg with notepad. Find [Area.120] section and look at the Title="Name You See in the Library Editor"

Scenery.cfg is located in C:\programdata\Microsoft\FSX (you have to be showing all folders including hidden ones, this one is normally hidden, it is a "system protected" folder)

2. Having identified the "name you see in the library" you can now start fsx open the scenery library editor, find the named scenery and either fix its path by pointing it to the correct directory or delete it from the library if you want it gone. FSX will recalculate and save a new scenery.cfg.

Deleting a scenery from the library doesn't delete the scenery files themselves, but if you remove the files before removing them from the library, well you get this error.

Always remove scenery from within the library editor first before deleting or moving the files physically. If your intent is to move the scenery then; 1. Delete it from the library. 2. Move the files. 3. Re-add them to the library.

Or anticipate this error, and know the name of the scenery your moving, and after moving the files and getting this error, go into the scenery library and correct the path.

NEVER EDIT Scenery.cfg directly, use the scenery library editor.

Example of my Area.120, yours will be different. The "Title=####" is what you will see as the name in the scenery library editor. The actual path it's looking for it in is "Local=####" item of the Area. If Local="path" doesn't contain a drive letter then the top level is the FSX folder itself:

[Area.120]
Active=FALSE
Local=E:\My Addon Scenery\FreeMeshX - Asia
Required=FALSE
Title=FreeMeshX - Asia
Layer=127

Hope this helps. Cheerio.

[Illegally Flying]

Originally posted by JJ FSX:

To prevent this don't delete or move scenery files that are referenced/active in the FSX scenery library. Now you need to:

1. Open the scenery.cfg with notepad. Find [Area.120] section and look at the Title="Name You See in the Library Editor"

Scenery.cfg is located in C:\programdata\Microsoft\FSX (you have to be showing all folders including hidden ones, this one is normally hidden, it is a "system protected" folder)

2. Having identified the "name you see in the library" you can now open the scenery library editor, find the named scenery and either examine/fix its path by pointing it to the correct directory folder. Or Delete it from the library if you just want it gone. FSX will recalculate and save a new scenery.cfg.

Deleting a scenery from the library doesn't delete the scenery files themselves, but if you remove the files before removing them from the library, well you get this error.

Always remove references to a scenery from within the library editor first before you delete or move them physically.

NEVER EDIT Scenery.cfg directly, use the scenery library editor.

Example of my Area.120, yours will be different. The "Title=####" is what you will see as the name in the scenery library editor. The actual path it's looking for it in is "Local=####" item of the Area. If Local="path" doesn't contain a drive letter then the top level is the FSX folder itself:

[Area.120]
Active=FALSE
Local=E:\My Addon Scenery\FreeMeshX - Asia
Required=FALSE
Title=FreeMeshX - Asia
Layer=127

Hope this helps. Cheerio.

Thanks this helped a lot but now im getting an Area 121 error and i dont see it in my scenery cfg

[JJ FSX]

Originally posted by Illegally Flying:

Thanks this helped a lot but now im getting an Area 121 error and i dont see it in my scenery cfg

That's crazy. It must be there. How could it not be?

[nelsond0490]

its located under temp files found in c drive --> users --> microsoft --> FSX --> scenery.cfg --> delete, it will rewrite automatically ------ i believe this is where it is found, I will have to double check

[Ken "Hondo" Gardner]

JJ FSX’s advice is right-on. I have used this method to fix many scenery errors and it’s worked every time.

[Ken "Hondo" Gardner]

Originally posted by nelsond0490:

its located under temp files found in c drive --> users --> microsoft --> FSX --> scenery.cfg --> delete, it will rewrite automatically ------ i believe this is where it is found, I will have to double check

If you were to do a search you would find 2 or more scenery.cfg files. 1 in the FSX directory, 1 in ProgramData/Microsoft/FSX, AppData/roaming/Microsoft/FSX & sometimes Documents folders. I asked Microsoft tech why they put the same file in different locations. Their answer was, the program data location was the active program data file the program modifies and the file in FSX directory is used to rebuild the Program Data file if the active file is deleted.

[JJ FSX]

Originally posted by nelsond0490:

its located under temp files found in c drive --> users --> microsoft --> FSX --> scenery.cfg --> delete, it will rewrite automatically ------ i believe this is where it is found, I will have to double check

No, the active scenry.cfg is NOT There, It is under C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX. And ProgramData is hidden by default.

[nelsond0490]

it was pretty late when i typed that out, but at the very least OP is being pointed in the right direction. I believe it is the one in appdata/roaming that OP is looking for?

[JJ FSX]

Originally posted by nelsond0490:

it was pretty late when i typed that out, but at the very least OP is being pointed in the right direction. I believe it is the one in appdata/roaming that OP is looking for?

Oops, I meant to say, scenery.cfg. Not fsx.cfg.

scenery.cfg = C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX
fsx.cfg = C:\users\USERNAME\appdata\roaming\microsoft\FSX

The OP is looking for scenery.cfg. i edited my response to say scenery.cfg

[game11]

all youy have to do is,go to your addon scenery folder if there isn't one ccreate it.having done that go inside that filder and create a folder called scenery.that should solve your problem.

[nelsond0490]

I personally found rewriting the scenery.cfg file as easy a step as the come, locating it can be challenging at first as you have to enable temporary files

[Ken "Hondo" Gardner]

For all of your scenery configuration problems there's a good editor program available on Avsim's library https://library.avsim.net/index.php?CatID=fsxutil that I recommend.

[Illegally Flying]

I fixed it