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Srry, if this question has been already asked...

OK, so I had been running Celestia 1.6.0 on my XP without any problems untill I moved it to my laptop which uses Windows 7. Everytime I open Celestia, my bookmarks are totaly gone, even the folders. My graphics card is GeForce GT 230M. Thx

How did you move it? .. or did you do a fresh install onto the laptop?

Bookmarks are written to a file called favorites.cel in the main Celestia folder. Did you copy that file across?

Don't forget that Win7 is extremely protective of the directories in its "Program Files" directory trees. By default, the design of Celestia and the way people normally use it assume you and Celestia can modify and create files in Celestia's directories without restrictions. You might want to consider installing Celestia in a different location in order to avoid the subtleties of the restrictions that Win7 enforces.

Celestia isn't the only program which has usage conventions which make assumptions like this. Many of the utilities that people use with Celestia do it, too. (Anim8or and MMPS are two examples.) I created C:\MyPrograms\ and have been putting such programs there. Note that there is no space in MyPrograms, in order to avoid the many problems caused by having spaces in file names.

Editorial comment: There are ways to install Celestia which make it fully compatible with Win7, multiple users, and not using administrator privileges, but, in my opinion, they make its usage unnecessarily complex in the more common single-user environment, especially when one is trying to create Addons or build Celestia from the svn archive on SourceForge.

Chuft-Captain wrote:How did you move it? .. or did you do a fresh install onto the laptop?

Bookmarks are written to a file called favorites.cel in the main Celestia folder. Did you copy that file across?

Fresh install. I'll try putting Celestia into another folder and see what happens.
Thx.

>>>EDIT<<< I put Celestia into another folder and now the bookmarks don't reset. Thanks guys!