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Hi,
I'm very pleased with SD over the last 9 months of use. I use it variously (not concurrently) across 5 devices (one windows laptop and one windows pc, both fairly regularly for at home planning; and two android tablets for out of home planning, e.g. in our flight club briefing room, and one android phone on a RAM mount for navigating in cockpit).
Generally speaking, I think the cross-device / cloud storage could be tidied. Currently it is inconsistent and clunky, and easy to make a few mistakes to get out of sync or lose work across devices.
Specific examples:
1. Routes. On PC, if I open a route from cloud, then I have to save to cloud and overwrite what was there because just selecting save will store locally and not in cloud (meaning I can easily accidently start working from an older version on my other PC / tablet) -- why not default the save to be back to where I loaded it from? On tablet, it does save automatically both to cloud and local storage, which is what I want. I'm not sure of the specific solution for you, my personal preference is for everything to be cloud based, but I gather other use cases might be to store local. Maybe configuration options would be useful: default open/close to cloud, always backup to local.
2. Waypoints. The Save to Cloud overwrites the cloud, the Load from Cloud overwrites the local. Adding waypoints in different PC/devices easily ends in mistakenly overwriting or missing out on waypoints, have already done this. If I use waypoints in a route on a device, then open that route on another device, the waypoints are not there and not part of the route, annoyingly. When I do load them, they are not connected to the turning point.
3. Aircraft. Similar annoyances with warnings about aircraft definitions and the cloud.
Love your product, but feels like the storage management has been evolved/bolted-on and needs a good solid refactoring.
Thanks!
M
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