Yes, I have been JFGI'ing this one already this morning.
Apparently my SuperAntiSpyware does not like the igexportcommon.dll file which apparently is needed to run GE.
So I am poised to uninstall & reinstall GE. But before I do, I want to make sure that I have saved all the important "My Places" files that I have been building all these years with my job numbers.
I have been looking on my PC this morning, and cannot seem to find those files.
Where are they? Are they *.kml, *.kmz, other? It seems like Windows Explorer has gotten poorer over time at doing what used to be such a simple DOS file search command.
Thanks.
It might be simply easier to right-click on your main "My Places" folder and export the entire collection to a single KMZ file for back-up purposes. In my past experience with uninstalling and re-installing GE, my places have stayed in place during the process but caution is always urged.
Otherwise, the conversation at http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/earth/WBwLtERDyFU details path locations based on your flavor of Windows:
>You'll find this data in your "My Places" file which is normally in your profile
>C:Documents and SettingsusernameApplication DataGoogleGoogleEarthmyplaces.kml (XP)
>C:UsersusernameAppDataRoamingGoogleGoogleEarthmyplaces.kml (Vista)
>C:usersusernameappDataLocalLowGoogleGoogleEarthmyplaces.kml (Windows 7 and later installations on Vista)
I hope this helps.
Thanks a lot Ladd, as always.
> It might be simply easier to right-click on your main "My Places" folder and export the entire collection to a single KMZ file for back-up purposes. In my past experience with uninstalling and re-installing GE, my places have stayed in place during the process but caution is always urged.
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That would be nice, but GE would not even launch at all.
> Otherwise, the conversation at http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/earth/WBwLtERDyFU details path locations based on your flavor of Windows:
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> >You'll find this data in your "My Places" file which is normally in your profile
> >C:Documents and SettingsusernameApplication DataGoogleGoogleEarthmyplaces.kml (XP)
> >C:UsersusernameAppDataRoamingGoogleGoogleEarthmyplaces.kml (Vista)
> >C:usersusernameappDataLocalLowGoogleGoogleEarthmyplaces.kml (Windows 7 and later installations on Vista)
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This was VERY helpful. I found my files and copies them to my desktop before uninstalling GE, just for comfort's sake. Turns out, as you said, when I re-installed GE everything was still there just fine.
> I hope this helps.
Yippee, it sure did.
Have one on me this weekend!
I might think about uninstalling Super anti spyware..its junk if it cant recognize legitimate GE files
The only spyware I have downloaded to my computer is Security Essentials and Microsoft Defender
I only use the portable version of SuperAntiSypware and a few others to clean my registry and to find and fix problems from a thumb drive
It always picks a few GNSS files and a couple of others that will connect to the internet automatically to download data
Some will allow you to add the good files to a list to ignore and others will not
It is easy to pick them as safe files and to omit them from the list of things to quarantine.
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A word to the wise, from the recently-made-wiser (sorrier):
A Patch Tuesday Windows 7 upgrade took out a lot of my files, and that's the only one that I couldn't get back after a lot of work, dontcha know.
Over the years, I'd put all my history stuff on GE as an experiment, and a not too good one, as it turned out. I think the files were a little to close to the system files location, as opposed to some other directory. Maybe.
Some make a batch file to copy it out to another network location, but I just do it the old fashioned way every so often.
Patch Tuesday. Nice name for it.