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24 CHAPTER 3. PREPARATION AND INSTALLATION
4. By default, X-Plane will install to the Desktop. Though it can be installed elsewhere (by
clicking the Change Destination button), it is strongly recommended that it be placed on
the Desktop so that the folder can be found in the future.
5. Accept the user agreement and click Continue once again.
6. Select the scenery that should be installed. Depending on the installer on the disc, either all
of the world or none of it will be selected by default. An unselected tile will appear bleached
in color, while a selected tile will have its full color. If you are unsure what areas are currently
selected, just click Select None to turn everything off. From there, select the individual
tiles to install by clicking on them. Additionally, you can click and drag to select large areas
quickly.
Note that for regions where no scenery is installed, only oceans and airports will be visible.
When you’re finished selecting scenery, click Continue to begin installing.
7. The installer will begin displaying its progress. When the installer prompts you to do so,
remove the current disc and insert the next. Note that installation may take anywhere from
30 to 60 minutes per disc, and that only one X-Plane disc can be in the system at once
(the installer won’t recognize a disc placed in a second DVD-ROM). Installing the complete
scenery package will consume about 75 GB of hard drive space; doing so will take between
five and six and a half hours.
8. When the installation completes, reinsert Disc 1 and go fly!
Additionally, scenery can be added or removed at any point in the future by inserting Disc
1 and re-running the installer. When the X-System installer comes up saying “You already have
X-Plane 10 installed on this computer,” click the Add or Remove Scenery button and proceed
just like in step 6 above.
3.3.2.1 Special Considerations for Mac Users
By default, Mac OS X versions 10.5 (Leopard) and greater are set to automatically back up the
entire hard drive using Time Machine. This includes a user’s X-Plane directory. Most people would
prefer not to have this backed up, due to the fact that it requires a significant amount of space on
the backup disk (for something already backed up to DVDs, no less) and the fact that it takes a
great deal of time to complete the backup.
For this reason, it is recommended that users exclude the X-Plane directory from Time Machine’s
backup, either during or shortly after the X-Plane installation, by doing the following:
1. Open the Time Machine preferences, either from the task bar (by clicking the Time Machine
icon and selecting “Open Time Machine Preferences”) or from the System Preferences (by
clicking the Time Machine icon there).
2. With the preferences open, click the Options... button.
3. Click the + icon to add a folder to the list of excluded directories.
4. Select the X-Plane installation directory (located by default on the Desktop) and click Exclude.
5. Exit the Time Machine preferences.