I was travelling in Portugal. Since today all my tracks from all maps are gone. Use a 6GB card on my S4.
Any help possible to get them back?
Do you export your tracks to file when you close them ? They would be sitting in the export folder under Locus.
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I saved everx travk after ending. BUT Locus doesnt find any of mx hundreds of tracks. I found s 30mb file with a kind
Of .bak enfing, but trying to open it with Locus it says no supported file. I am sitting in a hotel in Portugal and stoll hopo to get my tracks back. In ecport there is no file.
Quote from: silber1 on May 19, 2016, 13:36:23
I saved everx travk after ending. BUT Locus doesnt find any of mx hundreds of tracks. I found s 30mb file with a kind
Of .bak enfing, but trying to open it with Locus it says no supported file. I am sitting in a hotel in Portugal and stoll hopo to get my tracks back. In ecport there is no file.
Saving is one thing, Export to a file is optional. Seems you did not use this option.
Did you use the Backup Manager from time to time to so a full Backup of your Locus Database ? Oh creates Zip Files indeed.
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The backup is 2 weeks old. I will do further repair when I am at home again tomorrow.
Thanks up then
Hello silber1. As Michael wrote, backup is one of best options how to save and later restore data.
Also, all tracks are stored in Locus/data/database directory, so make a backup of date in this directory, mainly file "tracks.db". If this file is corrupted, it should be possible to restore it.
And mainly in such case, check your SD card by any tool if possible. Such problem may rarely happen, but if so, it's usually because of some problem with SD card itself. Sorry for a complications.
I am back at home from Portugal and try to recover my tracks. Thanks for your quick help in my SOS situation.
I am using a new 64 GB card which worked fine up to yesterday.
I will make now an backup of all my Locus files.
Is there a good utility for repair the 64 GB card or recovery program?
Gerhard
As @709, mistrust all 64G SD cards, especially the cheap ones. I was caught out once and after that I always check them carefully.
It is an original Samsung 64GB card bougth from Amazon for 35.99€. I hope it is not a fake.
On May 17th someting happended to the card: all pictures made up to May 18th 18h disappeared. All other pictures before and afterwards are ok.
Now I found on the card and copied to my pc
:
tracks.db back 11,3 MB 18.5.2016
tracks.db 84k 19.5.2016
tracks.db-journal 20,5k 19.5.2016
waypoints.db-journal 120,7k 16.5.2016
If I use the file tracks.db back and open it with Locus I get errormessage, that it is not a valid data format.
Any idea what to do with this file. I hope in has all my tracks stored ?
Gerhard
I was working the whole day to get my tracks back.
I made a full copy of the micro-sd-card to my pc, so I have at least all files backed up.
I think all the tracks are hidden in the file: /data/database/tracks.db.back which has 11,3 MB and was created on May 18 16:37. I think this file contains all the missing tracks?
But how can I make a new tracks.db from it?
I copied from my old sd-card the old track.db into the new card. So I have at least my old tracks back, but none of my Portugal tracks.
Any further help is highly welckome.
Gerhard
upload your backup to cloud and send a mail to support.
think menion will try it. 8)
Good morning and hopefully a good news :o
I just send the Locus\data\database directory to Dropbox SOSLOCUS directory.
I hope the tracks.db.back file can be restored.
Gerhard
Hi, ehm ... where should I download your "sos" directory? :).
Btw. first what I try is to simply rename "tracks.bak" to "tracks.db". Maybe you should try it and it will works for you.
Quote from: silber1 on May 19, 2016, 12:02:34
I was travelling in Portugal. Since today all my tracks from all maps are gone. Use a 6GB card on my S4.
Any help possible to get them back?
Late advice, I know, but If you had used Locus automatic backup feature.....
The timestamped backup zips are than in Locus/backup/auto folder. The database folder of the backup zip contains tracks.db and waypoints.db. I have configured the Locus backup manager to backup every 3rd day , keeping 5 backups.
I renamed tracks.db.back into tracks.db and my new empty tracks.db was overwritten.
I startet Locus again, I got no error message and tracks was loading over half an hour, then I stopped. But after a new start tracks windows still was empty.
Then I made an other atempt: I saw here in the forum to try the sqlite3.exe procedure. In first run I got an ok with the tracks.db.back.
At the next run I got a new database, which had 11,1 MB and not 11,3 MB as the tracks.db.back.
Now I used the 11.1 MB file and Heureka: All my tracks are back :) :) :) :).
up to a last recorded track on May 17 19:34 h.
After that date someting must happend to my S4: All tracks made on May 18 and all my photos from May 17 16:18h to May 18 17:00h (stored in DCIM of the micro-sd-card) are disapeared. After that time all is ok again ??
What do you mean with: << Hi, ehm ... where should I download your "sos" directory? :).>>
Do you see a chance to get back also the May 18 ??
But I am very very happy to have most days in Portugal recovered. Many thans !!
Hmm seems you are skilled user :), glad to hear this worked!!
I'm worried that if you do not have database with lost track, it's not possible to recover it. If you anyway have some database with tracks from 18th of May, you may enable it, start Locus, export tracks to GPX, restore old database and import tracks.
Hi Menion
I the meantime I have recovered all my pictures and all the Portugal-tracks, only the last one couldn't be restored, which is not important. I also learnt much more about the great feature of backup within Locus, I did not use up to now >:( >:(.
I am a Locus user nearly from the very beginning and a bit old (81 ;) ) .
In the manual I also found the way to recover destroyed db-files with sqlite-tools-win32-x86-3130000.zip.
Diskdigger.exe helped me to recover my lost pictures.
Now I want to send the whole Portugal-track to the other people travelling with me. I exportet all tracks as gpx-files.
I tried some software tho show it in the pc (gps track ananalyse or my tourbook). But in none I can import the tracks and the poi all together.
Do you know a preferrible programm to do this job better?
Thanks to all who helped me in my SOS situation in Portugal !!!
Hi silber1
QuoteBut in none I can import the tracks and the poi all together.
do you mean attachements (photos) you´ve added during track record > "poi" ?
if so you you´l find one ".gpx" file and additional a folder with "name-attachements" in export folder.
On PC you can use e.g. "Geosetter". But this is for one time use a little bit complicated
or you export your track with "include icons and attachements" to .kmz and open this one with GoogleEarth on PC
Hi Balloni55
no I have made no attachment phontos, all photos are georeferenced by exposure in my S4.
I want to see the whole combined track and all the poi (hotels, and other) in a pc map.
I just am trying to show it in Google Earth Plus. But up to now, I see only one track in once and not completion of all tracks.
Hi, maybe you are looking for "export dream" :)
http://help.locusmap.eu/topic/export_dream