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Title: No sound for alerts
Post by: marsa on February 07, 2010, 06:41:10 PM: I am no longer getting sounds for alerts and am missing a lot of them.
There is info in the "play a sound" box and I get sound from other sources in my laptop.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Brad
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: ACW367 on February 08, 2010, 08:54:02 PM: Marsa

I had the same issue. Check that the D005 that you are pointed at is not from one of the old beta versions which you may have uninstalled. I realised that the D005 that I had my radarbox alert browse field was the one from the 3.06 version. As I had uninstalled 3.06 and the pings had disappeared. I have now browsed again to the D005 in the 3.13 version and I am fully pinged up again.
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: marsa on February 09, 2010, 02:25:54 AM: ACW,
I'm not sure how to go about doing that. I do have the most current version installed.
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: AirNav Support on February 09, 2010, 08:32:45 AM: On the alerts interface browse and check whether your pointing to the file D005 in your RadarBox 3.13 folder? If not point to it.
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: marsa on February 10, 2010, 04:38:44 AM: This is what is in the box:C:\Program Files\AirNav Systems\AirNav RadarBox 2009\data\d005.wav. When I click on browse it is an empty "screenshots" file.
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: ACW367 on February 10, 2010, 10:08:58 PM: 2009 is one of the old files that you have probably deleted. When you click the browse button, use the icons on the left to find your computer/C: drive. Then look for where you saved Radarbox 2010 (usually in program files if you went with the default save). Clicking to open on the top level of radarbox 2010, you will then find a 'data' folder. Inside that data folder is the D005.wav that you require.
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: marsa on February 11, 2010, 03:57:36 AM: When I open the data file in airnav 2010 I have the following files: Photo, mylog.db3, D012, navdata and D016. Sorry to be so dense about this but I'm not seeing what I need.
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: ACW367 on February 11, 2010, 08:41:49 AM: Best thing to do now is to go to Windows explorer. Do a search for file 'D005.dat'. Note down the exact location of the file and then use the computer icon on the alert browse to follow the exact same path down to the file. There are issues with the way XP works in that it can split files into its 'virtual store' which are relatively hard for a novice to navigate too.
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: tarbat on February 11, 2010, 10:08:18 AM: marsa, what operating system are you running? I suspect Vista or Win7, and what you're looking at are files in the virtual store. The wav file will be in the program files folders somewhere.

A simpler solution. Download the attached wav file, save it in a folder that you can easily find. Then open that file in Radarbox alerts settings.
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: Roadrunner on February 11, 2010, 10:08:43 AM: Quote from: ACW367 on February 11, 2010, 08:41:49 AM
There are issues with the way XP works in that it can split files into its 'virtual store' which are relatively hard for a novice to navigate too.

I thought it was only Vista and Windows 7 that did that - XP leaves files where you put them !

Regards

Mike
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: Allocator on February 11, 2010, 10:15:56 AM: Quote from: marsa on February 11, 2010, 03:57:36 AM
When I open the data file in airnav 2010 I have the following files: Photo, mylog.db3, D012, navdata and D016. Sorry to be so dense about this but I'm not seeing what I need.

This is what you well see. Use the Browse button next to the 'Play a Sound' box - note the directory path.
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: ACW367 on February 11, 2010, 12:29:28 PM: Sorry I did mean Vista/Win 7 and not XP, just brainfade on my part early this morning
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: marsa on February 12, 2010, 04:28:52 AM: I did a search for D005.dat and the result was no files found. I reinstalled radarbox and a search still does not find the file.???
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: tarbat on February 12, 2010, 07:50:09 AM: Why did you do a re-install, that won't fix the problem. What Operating System are you using?

Did you even try what I suggested?

Quote from: tarbat on February 11, 2010, 10:08:18 AM
A simpler solution. Download the attached wav file, save it in a folder that you can easily find. Then open that file in Radarbox alerts settings.
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: Allocator on February 12, 2010, 09:52:15 AM: Quote from: marsa on February 12, 2010, 04:28:52 AM
I did a search for D005.dat and the result was no files found. I reinstalled radarbox and a search still does not find the file.???

Did you try what I suggested above?
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: marsa on February 12, 2010, 01:34:02 PM: Problem Solved!! I'm using XP and was taking the suggestions one at a time. Tarbat: thank you. Downloaded your D005.wav and that did it. You guys are awesome. Two RB problems down and one to go. Thanks to everyone who responded.
Brad
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: Allocator on February 12, 2010, 01:55:15 PM: I'm glad that you've sorted this Brad.

Have fun :-)
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: Hawkeye on February 12, 2010, 03:12:37 PM: Brad,

You can of course download other aviation related .wav files as alternatives to D005 and save them in the AirNav RadarBox 'Data' folder, - easy to remember where they are if you put 'em in there.

I've attached one I like as an example, although I as I only have one alert set up, it don't half take me by surprise when it activates. :-)

Syd,
Title: Re: No sound for alerts
Post by: marsa on February 13, 2010, 01:33:51 PM: That's cool!
Thanks Syd