Reinstalling BaseCamp - where are my previous data

Former Member over 10 years ago

Bonjour tout le monde
My PC suddently passed over. I had to change the mother board and a lot of components.
I reinstalled BasCamp, but I do not know how to use my old datas (the disk was not destroyed).

I know I had my datas somewhere in my D: disk under D:\\donnees\Garmin\ ???
What kind of file type should i search for
and What shall I specify for data base in the Edit > Options Dialog ?

Thanks for helping

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

Default BC database location:

(Vista, Win7, Win8): C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Garmin\BaseCamp\Database\

If your D: drive does not mimic these folders exactly, just search for AllData.gdb and AllData.gdb.bak

You may find several older databases under 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, etc. Just look at the timestamp for the most recent. Copy and paste it into the new location, which will have a very small database. Just overwrite that.

Once running properly, you may decide to put the database anywhere....I have never used that new function, I just left it in the default location, and I make backups of My Collection regularly, which does exactly the same thing as copying the database manually.

Bonne chance!