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Yeah, another Squawkbox Install Issue


Bill McMahon 922044
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Bill McMahon 922044
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Hello folks,

 

After having flown with SATCO long ago, I am back to try out VATSIM.

 

I followed the excellent guide provided for jumping through the install hoops with squawkbox and FS2004. I can log on and connect with Vatsim network. However, I am getting two errors on Squawkbox startup.

 

First, a "critical error", icao.dat missing msg

Second, a "csl_icao.csv is missing" and the follow on stuff about aircraft being wrong, etc...

 

Now believe it or not, I have spent the last hour and a half reading through the many threads in this forum and the pilot resource center looking for the answer to this problem. I am sure I must have done something silly, and just missed an obvious instruction. But I have tried to look. Plus, I have verified the CSL library folder in the FS2004 aircraft folder. I also have verified both of those files being present in the Squawkbox directory.

 

So my question is, where all do those two files need to be at? i.e., is just those two locations, or are there more? Or is there something else I should check?

 

I appreciate any help!

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Lennart Vedin
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Did you try following Search at forum: icao.dat OR csl_icao.csv

There are lot of hit to sort out but there are some odd solutions or tip for this problem, I havn't look details my self.

 

Welcome back !

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Bill McMahon 922044
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I certainly did, and mostly those threads confirmed for me that other folks are having this very same problem, but no one is posting solutions. Except for here: http://forums.vatsim.net/viewtopic.php?t=108&highlight=icao+dat and unfortunately that solution didn't work for me.

 

I am on my ninth time this weekend trying to uninstall and reinstall everything. Bummer, I was really hoping to get back into this.

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Lennart Vedin
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My last possible right now:

Subject: 14. Squawkbox critical error csl_icao.csv is missing then csl_icao.csv is missing.

Troubleshooting at http://forums.vatsim.net/viewtopic.php?p=2262#2262

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