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TopoFusion Pro / Complete uninstall?

« on: July 19, 2010, 05:49:44 PM »

How do I do a complete uninstall and install fresh.  (without doing a restore on my system, as that would undo way more than TopoFusion)

When I uninstall, reboot in case anything is in the cache, and re-install, it still automatically loads up the last GPX file it had in it.  (which means somewhere it is remembering it)
I did tell it *not* to save my current map and files when I uninstalled.  It did not remove the TF directory from my settings.


I am having problems with waypoint symbols disappearing (they only show up when there is *also* a track being displayed).  The label for the waypoint always shows up, but if I unload, or uncheck, or even just scroll the map enough that the track is off, the waypoint symbol also disappears.

I am hoping somehow it's a weird setting, and I can clear it out with a complete reinstall, but so far I haven't been able to get a completely clean re-install (as it still reloads the old file so I know it knows something). 


And so far I have had no luck with the waypoint display problem being fixed.

Setup:
Windows 7
Had TF 3.973, just tried 4.0 today.  (had the problem before I upgraded)

I can recreate the waypoint disappearing problem by just drawing a point and a waypoint in TF.  But I initially had it when I had downloaded a set of waypoints from a 76csx, and a track from an Oregon 300.


Any suggestions???

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TopoFusion Pro / Elevation Downloading causing slowness???

« on: June 21, 2010, 04:33:02 PM »

This is my new (about a month) Windows 7 machine.  Initially installed v3.971, and then upgraded to v3.973.

I initially had a lot of slowness with TopoFusion in general.  (and this is a darn fast machine for everything else, it was running TopoFusion slower than my old XP machine).

I found one problem is that the Preferences for Internet/Number of Connections had been set to 1 on install.  I have a pretty fast connection, so increasing that increased the download speed.

But it still runs slow at times.  Particularly on our SAR mission last night and this morning, where I had no internet connection (but did have the area we were searching cached)

Now that I am back home, again with internet, I was still having slowness frustration (most noticeable symptom being the mouse not being able to keep up and becoming extremely jumpy, and menus taking a long time to drop, etc.) and I just noticed the "Elevation = downloading..." message along the status bar on the bottom of the window.  I tried turning off internet downloading, but it still was slow and displayed the same message.

I scrolled over to a different area, for which I seem to already have the elevation cached, and things were speedy and happy.

Went back to my mission area, 'downloading...' and slow again.

Tried to figure out how to turn off elevation downloading, but didn't find the setting.  However, I did click on the profile and playback tool and then back to the hand, and at some point in my playing, somehow the elevation locations seem to have been downloaded for my original location.  Now it is displaying elevation at the bottom status bar, and running like a champ.

I tried going to a new city, it downloaded the tiles, and then the elevation, and properly displayed it in the Status Bar.  So I am not sure how to reproduce this problem, or why the elevation got stuck in the first place, or how I managed to 'fix' it.

But I thought I would post this for information.  Plus to find out how to turn off elevation downloading if it is insisting on trying to do it even when I don't have an internet connection.

Thanks!

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TopoFusion Pro / Slow running under Win7 as a regular user.

« on: May 29, 2010, 11:09:21 AM »

I am running (or trying to run) TopoFusion Pro 3.793 as a regular user under Windows 7.

First: it doesn't happily install for use by users.
Work Around: tried several, but the most complete seemed to be to elevate the user to administrator for the install (so it would install in that users space, instead of the Admin space) and then demote back to a regular user.

Also needed to move the data files to a different location, as I have multiple GIS programs, and need to keep the data organized together.  (and when one is running different users, as I am, it works better when the data is in a location accessible to everyone, not in a user space)

Problems:
It initially installed with only Aerial color, and some Mexico map tile sets selected, easy enough to fix, but thought I would include this as a data point in case it might mean something to you.

It runs VERY slow.  It downloads EXTREMELY slow.  It does work, no obvious errors.  This was not a batch download, I am afraid to try that, this was just a regular download to look at my area on topo 2m.
I ran a comparison between my new Win7 machine and my old XP machine (which is running on a slower 802.11b net connection, but they are both on the same router).  Went to a new city to make sure I was getting a download and not saved files, and it took about 30 seconds to download the 2m topo.  I did the same on the Win7 machine, and it had 3 tiles, after about 2 minutes.  Then I stopped the test.

As a temporary work-around I attempted to copy my old map data (already have a lot of the local maps downloaded) into my new machine.  This seems to have worked.  Doesn't make it run any faster, but the tile sets at least show up on the screen without having to wait for a download.  (but I don't know if this is a good solution, as I don't know if you changed the dat or index file formats at all)

At some point I started getting the error "Invalid Arrow interval value" when I go into properties.  I am guessing that I failed to copy something when I was moving data to a central location, or this is due to a difference in map or index file format.  If there is a setting in the preferences that can set a valid arrow interval value, I am not sure where it is.

A couple other system notes:
I have had the Win 7 machine for less than 24 hours, so I am no expert there.
I have had the XP install running as a regular user (not admin), with the centralized data for a long time - so long I am not exactly sure of everything I did to get it that way.  I can certainly upgrade that one to the current version of TopoFusion, if needed for a comparison.

Let me know if there are screen shots, or any other data you would like me to get for you!

Thanks!

I do love Topofusion, and I am looking forward to using it on my new (should be faster) machine!