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SkySafari 6 Pro | Download/Export All Observing Lists At One Time

Jaroslaw Pillardy

January 06, 2018 22:21

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 I have copied my observing lists from Sky Safari 5 Pro to Sky Safari 6 Pro (on iPad) using iTunes and my Windows desktop. They showed up in Sky Safari 6,  I have edited them and added some more and I now want to copy the files out from iPad to my desktop using iTunes. However  no observing lists appear on iTunes File Sharing for Sky Safari 6 Pro. I can see history, current settings, my horizons, but no observing lists. I have a lot of them (over 150), so emailing or downloading one by one is not practical. Please help!

Jarek

http://jareksastro.org/ 

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  Bill Tschumy January 07, 2018 01:18

  The files are deleted from iTunes File Sharing after being imported.  You cannot get to them that way.  You have to either email them or download then from LiveSky.

  Yours is a use case we hadn't considered.  Why do you need to covert all your observing lists back into .skyset files?  Perhaps we can suggest another solution.

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  Jaroslaw Pillardy January 07, 2018 04:08

  Thanks! There are two main reasons: backup and converting. It took a very long time to prepare these lists, actually they started way before Sky Safari, but now I have them in that format. I need to make sure they survive and are consistent, and I don't want to have them only in one device or even only in a cloud service like LiveSky. This is a free service with no guarantees about reliability or availability over time. As long as I have files I can always convert them into another format and of course spread out over several backup choices. They are in Sky Safari because I use them for observing, planning and such in Sky Safari (I have Sky Safari Pro), I control my telescopes directly from my iPad and I do planning often while traveling. I need a way to export them all at once, until now after a period of development I just exported them all, saving or emailing one by one is not practical. Of course I don't change all of them, but it is not easy to keep track which ones were changed ... One solution would be to have a web service to call to download them one by one programmatically, I can easily do that as long as I keep the list and know their names. Or a button or link to export them all at once from LiveSky? Thank again.

  Jarek

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  Bill Tschumy January 08, 2018 14:57

  I will ask the person responsible for LiveSky to have an option to download all the lists at once, possibly as a zip file.  Thanks for the suggestion.

   

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  Jaroslaw Pillardy January 08, 2018 17:21

  Thanks!