[closed] Where are favorite sets stored?

[friedsquid]

Hello,
I have my AQ data (custom map cache files, landmarks, tracks, etc) stored on a removable micro SD card on phone running Android 7. I got a second micro SD card to use in an Android 7 tablet and figured that the easiest way to set up the new card to be exactly like the card I use in the phone was to simply "clone" the card - copy the entire data-filled card over to the new empty card.

This worked great for everything except the favorite sets I had created on the phone (i.e. on original card). Using the second (cloned) card, AQ displays the "buttons" for all of the favorite sets I had created, but tapping any of the favorite set buttons gives an error message "Favorite item: an error occurred".

I can't find any file in the AQ folders on the SD card which would seem to hold these settings, which may be why I get the error message. It would be nice if I didn't have to re-create all of my favorite map sets on the new SD card as there are a lot of them and each one has multiple layers with different opacity.

So my questions:
- Where are the settings for favorite maps and sets stored?
- If they are stored on the phone's internal memory instead of the SD card, is there a way for me to find them and copy them over to the tablet's internal memory?

Regardless of the answer, thank you for this amazing app - it has all of the features I could have dreamed of (and more) for my primary use of navigation out of cell coverage in the middle of nowhere.

[Psyberia-Support]

Hi and thanks for feedback and support!

Favorite maps and sets are stored in a file called ".ws-favorite-maps" (it's an hidden file for Android and Linux OS) inside the "[app folder]/cache/" folder.

All maps (except built-in maps) are saved using their absolute path, so you may get an error because both devices don't have the same sd card path... If you find a common folder on both devices, you may use it as the storage folder of a workspace to have a common path, but I'm not sure you'll find that...

Let me know if you think it's not this...

[friedsquid]

Thank you for your quick reply!

I did the "cloning" on a Mac which is set to show hidden files, so on I can see the ".ws-favorite-maps" file, and it did in fact get copied over from the original source SD card to the new destination card during the "cloning". But I think your suggestion is correct that the problem is the absolute path.

The path to the original source card is "storage/F5D9-13ED/..." but for the new card it is "storage/7FE9-19FE/...".

When I open the ".ws-favorite-maps" file with a good text editor on my Mac I can see that the expected path is for the original source card ("storage/F5D9-13ED/...") so that would explain why AQ gives an error when I use the new card.

Might it work for me simply to find & replace in the ".ws-favorite-maps" all instances of the path info for the new card, i.e. find "storage/F5D9-13ED/..." and replace with "storage/7FE9-19FE/..."? I may just give that a try and see if it works. If it does not work I can always re-create the favorite sets using the new card.

[friedsquid]

Update: doing that find & replace worked! There were 47 instances in my ".ws-favorite-maps" file that got changed and now all my favorite map sets work as they should on the new card. Thank you for your help on this question.

[Psyberia-Support]

Ok great.
You got lucky in your misfortune, since the "find & replace" could only work with same-length paths, which was your case...
Best regards

[BenF]

How is the ".ws-favorite-maps" file encoded? I cannot open it.
Or is there an easier way to transfer my "favorite maps & sets" to another phone/card?

[Psyberia-Support]

This file is simply stored in binary (no encoding).
If your favorite map sets have been created with a recent version, you'll be able to copy the file from a device to another.
Starting with the next version, you'll be able to copy it from a workspace to another.