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Microlight Andy
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Tim, I have just loaded Version 12 and I seem to have lost my routes, aircraft and user waypoint data.  I cannot find the file anywhere on my hard disc.

Any clues?

Andy

Tim Dawson
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This is related to the name change. Under My Documents there will be a folder called SkyAngel, and now one called SkyDemon. Copy everything from the old SkyAngel folder into the new SkyDemon folder and your routes will be back; and waypoints.

For your aircraft, this is the settings file which is a little harder to find. If you're using Vista/7 it's under C:\Users\[Name]\AppData\Roaming\Divelements Limited\ and you'll see two folders; one for SkyAngel and one for SkyDemon. Again, copy the settings file from the former to the latter, overwriting the latter, and your aircraft will be restored.

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Tim, thanks for that.  I have got waypoints and aircraft data back OK.  Still looking for routes tho.  And the data for France doesn't read across.  I get a message sayning "data is designed for an earlier system".  I have downloaded "France" again, but still get the same message.....?

Andy

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Ignore my France data comment - the file went into the Angle folder, not I have moved it to Demon/data all works OK

Tnks

Tim Dawson
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I can't really help with finding out where you saved your route before. SkyAngel/Demon certainly won't have deleted them though.
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Hi Tim,

just downloaded version 13 - found the routes and waypoints as directed above, but can't find the folders you refer to for plane set-up.  I've copied the waypoints etc into the new skydemon folders as you suggest.  When I load a route, user waypoints  show up as turning points, but are not labeled/named on the map.  Right click gives only lat-long and I can't see a button/option to turn waypoint labels on/off.  No waypoints are displayed in the user waypoint window.  Waypoints are correctly labeled in the route-plan window though.

Any suggestions?

Steve

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It sounds like your userwaypoints.xml file hasn't been found. This needs to live in My Documents\SkyDemon. You can view its contents with Notepad, even, to check what's in there.
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found the file - it was wiped.  I'd moved it as per earlier instructions.  Guess I'll just need to rebuild them :-(

steve

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