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FSX Library Creator load error

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I have just built a new desktop system to cope with installation of Windows 11. I previously ran FSX on Win 7 Pro.

The new Mobo would not recognise my Win7 'C:' drive as a bootable device, so I've had to clean install Win 11 Pro on an empty SSD.
In doing this I have not been able to keep all the stuff I had on the old system (they're still on the original boot drive, which is now D:, but I'm having to do new installations for the Applications.
I recovered Model Converter X and Library Creator from yourselves OK.
However, when I try to open a Library in Library Creator it won't open ".bgl" files I created on the old system. I'm setting it to look for 'all file types rather that '.xml' as I only have the 'bgl' libraries to work from.
I'm getting an error which basically says "Hex value (x01) is an invalid character in Line 1, Position 1.
Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong?
 
Library Creator XML can only load XML files as input, it can not real BGL files. So the errors is because it tries to read the BGL as a XML file.
 
The Library Creator I had on my old Win7 desktop PC would load libraries from the BGL file. I had a feeling it didn't have the 'XML' denotation on the program I had then, but wasn't all that sure.
Is there a current version that can do this?
 
No, I don't think I ever made a version that can do that. Did you not use MCX in that case?
 
Hi again Arno

No worries regarding this issue! I have found 'xml' files of the libraries I created on the old system, and can open them OK!
Because all my created libraries were in original FSX 'Addon Scenery' folder, the models all come up "red" because the path is incorrect now my drives do not have the same references. I'm trying to go through all of them and rebuild each again.

Thanks for your time & expertise. My computer programming "skills" began with Machine Code, Assembly Language. and "Basic"! I later learned to use MSDOS commands to make things happen on PCs, but I've never managed to progress to the higher level languages used these days! (feeling old and redundant!)
 
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