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[ol' Navy]

Recently, I posted that I had lost all the campaigns I had been playing.  It was, without a doubt, something I had done to myself.  I won't bore you with the details.  I received help, but in short it was explained that when they (campaigns) are gone, they are gone.  I accepted that, and decided that wasn't such a big deal since I am always getting shot down anyway and had had limited success in those campaigns and this would give me a chance to play 'em again.  No big deal.  Anyhow, I have the habit of reading the posts by all the smart guys here in hopes that I can learn something (doubful).  In the past day or so, I ran across a mod called Random Skies Mod  by Whistler.  Most importantly it seemed like something I was capable of installing and the instructions said if it didn't work, you could just uninstall it.  Well, I tried it.  Installed it per instructions.  First thing I noticed is that you don't use the IL2 Selector any more.  The next thing I notice, all those aforementioned campaigns were magically back.  Why?  Beats me.  Not a clue.  They just are and they work.  I just wanted to post this so some smart feller or the other in this forum could maybe figure it out, and that maybe, maybe it would help someone else.    

[SAS~Storebror]

The campaigns are just files in the "Missions/Campaign" folder.
Whistler's Random Skies mod launcher is just an AutiIt Launcher script running before the Selector's il2fb.exe is launched.
It's not replacing the IL-2 Selector, it just applies the same kind of settings to the same il2fb.ini file and the launches it.

Neither of these do anything to the "Missions/Campaign" folder, so whatever it was that restored your campaigns, it surely wasn't this.

Best regards - Mike

[ol' Navy]

Well, that is what happened.  They were gone, and now they are back.  I am way way not smart enough to understand it all.  Only thing I can do is "report" what happened in my game.  Not the whys or the wherefores.  I'm just pretty glad they have materialized again.  And as I said, I used the mod because some of you smart guys were, and it looked pretty fool proof.  Thanks for paying attention and for your comment.  I just wanted to share my experience so it might help somebody, sometime.  Sorry if I confused.

[whistler]

ol' Navy, I guess you have more than one pilot and the missing campaigns remained 'hidden' until you selected that pilot, otherwise this topic deserves an [x-file] tag in the subject!

[ol' Navy]

ol' Navy, I guess you have more than one pilot and the missing campaigns remained 'hidden' until you selected that pilot, otherwise this topic deserves an [x-file] tag in the subject!

You know, of course, who you are responding to?  By my own admission, not smart at all, in the game or otherwise.  Heck, I can't remember what I did earlier today much less what I did when I installed your mod.  I know I did it correctly because it worked, but in between time I might have done something else that effected my campaigns.  I just don't know.  As I stated above though, I am just pretty much "result oriented", in that if it works, I don't question why.  If my game doesn't work, I am here on the forum asking for help from the "smart kids".  Thanks for your response.