Important: These forums are for discussions between SkyDemon users. They are not routinely monitored by SkyDemon staff so any urgent issues should be sent directly to our Customer Support.

How to transfer aircraft files


Author
Message
GeKaiser
GeKaiser
Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)
Group: Forum Members
Posts: 45, Visits: 312
Hi,

I copied my aircraft files from the PC to the designated folder on the ipad with iTunes (as I'm usually doing it with my routes). Unfortunately the new files don't show up in the aircraft library on the iPad.

How can I make the files accessible for the app?

I tried already logout/in and reboot

Any suggestions?

regards
Georg
Replies
Tim Dawson
Tim Dawson
SkyDemon Team (678K reputation)SkyDemon Team (678K reputation)SkyDemon Team (678K reputation)SkyDemon Team (678K reputation)SkyDemon Team (678K reputation)SkyDemon Team (678K reputation)SkyDemon Team (678K reputation)SkyDemon Team (678K reputation)SkyDemon Team (678K reputation)
Group: Forum Members
Posts: 8.1K, Visits: 9.4K
Our page of documentation on this topic covers what to do. The forthcoming cloud storage solution in SkyDemon 2.4 will also make this very easy.

http://www.skydemon.aero/plan/documentation/ipaddata.htm
GeKaiser
GeKaiser
Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)Too Much Forum (7.1K reputation)
Group: Forum Members
Posts: 45, Visits: 312
Dear Tim,

thank you for your help!

In the end I found out that the reason for my problems is an old "*.aircraft" file from this forum: As soon as I copy teh following C172 file (http://www.skydemon.aero/forums/Attachment19.aspx) to my ipad, SD crashes at startup. No problems with all the other files from the forum.

I guess the reason is the file encoding, saying <encoding="Windows-1252"?> instead of <encoding="utf-8"?>.

regards
Georg
knorren
knorren
Too Much Forum (3.5K reputation)Too Much Forum (3.5K reputation)Too Much Forum (3.5K reputation)Too Much Forum (3.5K reputation)Too Much Forum (3.5K reputation)Too Much Forum (3.5K reputation)Too Much Forum (3.5K reputation)Too Much Forum (3.5K reputation)Too Much Forum (3.5K reputation)
Group: Forum Members
Posts: 26, Visits: 335
Maybe a stupid question but do you have to rename the xml-files downloaded to ".aircraft" before transfering them to the iPad?
GO

Merge Selected

Merge into selected topic...



Merge into merge target...



Merge into a specific topic ID...




Threaded View

Reading This Topic

Login

Explore
Messages
Mentions
Search