Bazar Folder

[Bennyyy427]

In order to clean up my DCS folder a little (When I started installing mods I had very little idea of what I was doing, so I didn't save an original copy of everything), I uninstalled DCS Steam and deleted the Saved Games DCS folder. Then I reinstalled DCS Steam, and there was no Bazar folder. As far as I know the Bazar folder has a important .lua file in it. Is the Bazar folder something that does not come with a fresh copy of DCS?

[Tippis]

The bazar folder in the install directory is where DCS stores all its bits and bobs, odds and ends — hence the name. It gets installed by default, and if it's missing DCS won't run — either the installer will auto-fix it on start, or you'll have to run the repair command, I'm not sure which.

 

But in the user directory, there is no default need for a bazar since any odds and end that would go there by default would by necessity have to exist in the install-directory bazar. There is nothing in all that static data that would be user-specific and thus warrant existing in the user files.

 

Now, sometimes, DCS operates on the logic that if a given directory or file normally found in the install directory is found in a corresponding similarly-named place in the user files, it is loaded instead of the default. That's probably what you're seeing here: you used to have an override file in your user bazar directory, as part of some kind of mod or other, but it won't be there on a clean install.

 

So, to answer the actual question: no, at least not there, except yes, but somewhere else. Clear as mud.  

[Bennyyy427]

58 minutes ago, Tippis said:

The bazar folder in the install directory is where DCS stores all its bits and bobs, odds and ends — hence the name. It gets installed by default, and if it's missing DCS won't run — either the installer will auto-fix it on start, or you'll have to run the repair command, I'm not sure which.

 

But in the user directory, there is no default need for a bazar since any odds and end that would go there by default would by necessity have to exist in the install-directory bazar. There is nothing in all that static data that would be user-specific and thus warrant existing in the user files.

 

Now, sometimes, DCS operates on the logic that if a given directory or file normally found in the install directory is found in a corresponding similarly-named place in the user files, it is loaded instead of the default. That's probably what you're seeing here: you used to have an override file in your user bazar directory, as part of some kind of mod or other, but it won't be there on a clean install.

 

So, to answer the actual question: no, at least not there, except yes, but somewhere else. Clear as mud.  

Ah, that makes sense! Thanks for the explanation