no shared plots

[IanH]

Over the last few days, PlanePlotter has been behaving strangely. My usual view is about 100 x 80 miles that includes Manchester and Birmingham and out to the Wash.

At the moment all I am seeing is my own data - no shared or positionless plots.

If I zoom out to double that area, Manchester lights up with shared plots and there are also some positionless plots nearby.

Zooming back in, and the shared/positionless plots are still there on screen but slowly disappear until I am left with just my own data!

Anyone know what setting I've screwed up?

Ian

[shakysen]

Hi Ian .Same thing happens this way.Coincidance if I stop shareing to flightaware it goes back to normal?

[IanH]

Hmm, might give that a whirl. I've checked my PP set up and it passes so sounds like a good idea.

Ian

[Triple7]

Ian,

Might be worth cycling through the sharing  options - blue icon with the double arrows - a few times. Also check Options sharing setup to be sure nothing had become unticked.

Tim

[IanH]

Began to wonder why I was seeing shared plots if I expanded my view - doesn't PP know where I am?

I usually use a calibrated airways map as my PP background. If I pressed the Outline key (7th one along on the toolbar) that used to bring up an outline of the selected area - now it wasn't (N of Scotland?).

And pressing the map key should download a map of the selected area - that just gave me random areas - Norway, Spain, France, Europe!).

Checked on chat and this shouldn't happen so clearly my install of PP was broken. So I started to set up a new install of PP.

But since I run PP as a Virtual Machine, I usually have backups. Luckily this morning I found a version from a month ago that worked ok. Copied the registry key for COAA (thanks Tim for that timely info http://radarspotting.com/forum/index.php/topic,3213.msg14611.html#msg14611), imported it into my broken version and voila - fixed. Positionless and MLAT working again.

Now I need to compare the two registry files to see what was different.

Much easier than a reinstall.

So for those of you who have simpler set ups  , I suggest taking a backup copy of the COAA registry key might be worthwhile.

Ian

[satcom]

Hi Ian

Always worth trying PP regfix in the main folder  first  ... and also avoid using the ABCD buttons unless  you are 100% sure you know what you are doing.