Lost Aerial Photos

[dale]

I have been using a purchased copy of Topofusion for a couple of weeks. I had a number of topos and aerials downloaded and saved for my area of interest. Tonight, I was filling in a few blank areas, and when I "saved all files", I lost all of my saved aerials. Now it's only downloading "snow" aerials. the topos are still fine. Is there anyway to figure out what happened, and restore the functionality of topofusion.

[Krein]

"Save all files" refers to GPX files, not maps.  All maps that are downloaded are always saved.

If you are getting snow aerials for an area that means that Terraserver does not have maps in that area -- and likely never has.  We do not save the fuzzy tiles (for obvious reasons) but instead TF will re-download those tiles the next time you run the program.  This is so that if new tiles are loaded on Terraserver you will be able to get them.  

But in this case, you must have never had the aerials in the first place.

[dale]

Well, actually I did have the tiles. When it went bonkers and they disappeared, I tried shutting down the PC and rebooting thinking it was something "hung up" in my system, to no avail.

Tonight when I logged on, all of the aerials are present and accounted for. AARRRRGGGHHHH, sometimes I feel like these computers are alive and deliberately foul things up for fun.

[Krein]

Hmm, yeah, I can't think of anything that would cause you to get white tiles in areas you've already downloaded, so it must have been something really screwy.

Let us know if you see the problem again.  Thanks.