Skymaxx pro v2/ texture .png file problems

[smckee718]

I need a link to tech support to find out out why Skymaxx will not work correctly with XP 10 10.35b2 ( beta doesnt matter, doesnt work with 10.32 either).  seems as though Skymaxx overwrites the sky textures, which is normal, but I have no text showing up in the ui to change the sky texture, just a blank box.   Sky textures somehow go missing from the resources/bitmaps/skycolor folder, and I wind up with an error message on XP10 restart, that I am missing sky color textures , socked.png  and foggy.png to be exact, everytime, I have uninstalled skymaxx/ reinstalled, and repaired xp10 install and updated, nothing is working.  If i manually copy and paste the skymaxx textures back into the resources/bitmaps/skycolor folder, then it works fine..for 1 flight only, but when I shutdown the sim, same error everytime on startup. very annoying, any ideas ? help would be greatly appreciated at this point,  if needed I can give you a copy of log.text .   Log.txt

[sundog]

One thing I noticed in your log is that SkyMaxx Pro also can't seem to write its configuration settings to disk. It sounds like there is a disk permissions issue, or a corrupt file or filesystem in the mix here. I'm pretty sure if there were a general issue with 10.32 and SkyMaxx Pro there would be thousands of customers at my door with pitchforks and torches, and there aren't.

 

I noticed you installed X-Plane into your C:\Program Files (x86) folder. Often there are restricted permissions underneath this folder in Windows that prevents applications from writing files into them. So, that would explain SkyMaxx Pro's inability to save its settings, as well as its inability to manage your sky textures properly.

 

Try moving your X-Plane folder to the root of your C:\ drive for example, or somewhere else that isn't write protected. As things seem to be in a bad state, I'd then uninstall SMP, delete the entire Resources/plugins/SilverLining folder, run the X-Plane updater to restore anything necessary, and re-install SMP. I'd edit the properties on the X-Plane executable to run as administrator just to be safe. Then, run X-Plane - are things better now?

 

If not, running a disk check would be a good idea.