Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hidden vs public files

[Thorsten R. <tho...@sc...>]

> The problem of course is that many wiki pages and articles encourage and  
> recommend people to change files inside FG_HOME, which is unfortunate

I suppose most commonly people deal with FG_HOME when their FG  
installation crashes after an update due to the dreaded nav database  
problem (SQLite access error or something like that).

This happens ~ once per week in the forum (for the last instance see e.g.  
here)

https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=31388#p302744

and since this is a SERIOUS issue, of course we try to spread the  
information how to deal with it as widely as possible. Same is true for  
the log files - of course we want to see them in case of problems, so we  
need to tell people where to look for them.

I don't think there's any recommendation to actually edit files in FG_HOME  
(I might be wrong there...) - but as matters stand, things are set up in a  
way that makes it fairly crucial to have people locate it and read or  
delete parts of it.

* Thorsten