Just finished upgrading BaseCamp on my Vista Home Premium 64 bit system from 3.2.1 using the direct download link. I got the warning box that some data may have been lost and that I could restore the data from the previous version by using the "restore data from the previous version" tool.
So I looked at My Collection and the various lists under it. There were at least six lists; four of which were imports of the data from my 276C and two which were imports of GPX files prepared by others who are working on developing a trail system in the northeast U.S. When I selected those later lists they were empty. Ok, no problem, I have the tool... I'll just use it and the data will come back.
Clicked on the tool and it warned me that this was a one way operation. (Like a fool I didn't take the warning to heart and make a backup right then before I continued.) So I went ahead and ran the tool.
Sure enough, it ran and restarted the program and my formerly empty lists were repopulated with the missing data. Alas, all the other data and lists were gone! Not the expected result!
The newly restored database seems to be one that I had been working on in the not so recent past, i.e., at one point I had removed all the data in My Collection and just imported stuff that had to do with the northeast project and then over a period of days or weeks gradually added back other data and lists.
So, did I misunderstand the tool warning? Where and why did it find this old MyCollection and think it was the correct one to restore when it wasn't the one I had been currently using in 3.2.1?
