Are kneeboards cached somewhere?

[KoleTang]

I have created a couple of custom kneeboards for the A-10C_2.  They were working but I was trying to add some for the F-16C and the FA-18C_hornet.  I was not having any luck getting the new ones to show up.  In playing around, trying to figure it out, I renamed the Kneeboard folder to something else and my A-10 knee boards still show up.  Is there a cache of them somewhere that needs to be updated/deleted for the new Kneeboard folder to show up?  Or lack of a Kneeboard folder to show up?

 

Edited March 22, 2022 by KoleTang
Clarification

[KoleTang]

I have also deleted the Kneeboard folder and my custom Kneeboard pages are still showing up.  I am running the latest open beta with only stock mods.  Is this the appropriate place to ask about this?  I think it could be a bug.

[draconus]

There are no miracles - it has to be loaded from somewhere. You might have changed the original files or added files to the game folders. Also it might be a mission file containing those.

[Rudel_chw]

15 minutes ago, KoleTang said:

I have also deleted the Kneeboard folder and my custom Kneeboard pages are still showing up …  I think it could be a bug.

Whenever I think that I’m in the presence of a bug, I search for it on this Forum … if no one else is reporting it, then I recheck my issue, as 99% of the times it is a mistake on my part.

 

18 hours ago, KoleTang said:

In playing around, trying to figure it out, I renamed the Kneeboard folder to something else and my A-10 knee boards still show up.  Is there a cache of them somewhere that needs to be updated/deleted for the new Kneeboard folder to show up? 

 

The DCS kneeboard gather its pages from several sources, showing them as an uninterrupted stream of images:

- First, the simulator engine generates map pages for your current position.

- Next, the aircraft module that you are flying adds several more pages, for some aircrafts these may be dynamic pages like navigation or weaponry info.

- Next, any images that you may have placed at /saved games/kneeboard/module-name/ will show.

- Next, any images that are at /DCS/mods/terrains/terrain-name/kneeboard will show (some maps dont have this ability)

- Finally, any image that the mission creator has stored inside the Mission file, will show.

 

So, which one of these kneeboard sources have you deleted? … I’d assume that you erased the ones at /saved games/ … but when flying, your kneeboard should still show the pages generated from the other sources.

[KoleTang]

I have deleted the /saved games/DCS.openbeta/Kneeboard/ folder.  I have since tested this on 2 other machines.  One with production and one with the open beta.  I was able to recreate it on the open beta.  The production version does not exhibit this issue and I can create, update and delete kneeboard pages with no problem.  I have 2 machines with the open beta that both exhibit the issue.  One of the open beta machines was a fresh install on March 5.  It appears that my kneeboards are stuck at what they were at the time of the last update.  I have done the clean/repair procedure with no improvement.  I am running only ED stock mods.

[Rudel_chw]

4 minutes ago, KoleTang said:

The production version does not exhibit this issue and I can create, update and delete kneeboard pages with no problem.  I have 2 machines with the open beta that both exhibit the issue. 

I don’t  know what may be causing your problem, but I run only DCS Openbeta and can edit my kneeboards as usual, so I doubt that it is a bug.

Edited March 23, 2022 by Rudel_chw

[draconus]

Try with clean profile. Rename temporarily the /saved games/dcs.openbeta folder to dcs.backup and run DCS open beta to check again.

[KoleTang]

I just tried renaming the /saved games/dcs.openbeta folder and my existing kneeboards still showed up when the new folder was created by DCS.  They must be cached somewhere else.

[KoleTang]

I just tried the nuclear option and uninstalled and reinstalled and the problem still exists.  There appears to be some other location for user data.

 

[Baldrick33]

The page you are seeing is stored here:

DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\A-10C_2\Cockpit\Scripts\KNEEBOARD\pages\1.png

Edited March 24, 2022 by Baldrick33

[KoleTang]

Ok.  All is well.  This is just a story about how easily you can fall down a rabbit hole.  Turns out the default kneeboard for the A-10C_2 in open beta has added the HOTAS manual pages.  The release version does not have these pages.  I thought having those exact same pages was a good idea, so I created them when I was using the release version.  When I switched to the open beta, I just copied the folder over.  If I had gone a couple pages past the first, I would have seen them duplicated.  I was using these pages as a test to see if it was updating and what I was seeing was the default.  When I checked against the release version, those pages were not there and that amplified my confusion.  On to the next rabbit hole.

Thanks to the people who responded.

 

[Baldrick33]

At least you got to the bottom of it!