Good afternoon Bill.

Yes, I'm happy to confirm that all functions work after a reinstall.

The sequence of turning on a dataset (mentioned in previous posts) was the
one I followed. The asterisk didn't come on but does now. Show At was set
0-180 by default. I zoomed from wide to narrow, changed Show At settings,
and such to see if I'd misunderstood that function.

The same problem (no asterisk, no depiction of the dataset) occurred with
other options (e.g., pulsars, quasars, and Uranometria). It wasn't only the
M31 globular file.

From what I could tell, the files were all loaded on the hard drive. For
M31, the color was set to hot pink. Don't know what hot pink looks like
under red acetate, but it is pretty awesome in full color. =] There's no
missing the M31 globulars now.

Oh well, the mysteries of Windows. Thanks to all for your responses. We can
attribute this one to "gremlins."

Hope everyone has a clear weekend for observing.

Best,

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: guide-user@yahoogroups.com [mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Bill Gray
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 11:22 AM
To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Toggle User Datasets Question

Hi Mike,

Sounds as if you got around this anyway, but...

I'm pretty sure you had all the files installed. Guide will check the
existence of the data file before even showing the dataset in the list.
(The reason for this is that the .tdfs list some datasets that are not
provided by default, ones that you have to go out and download somewhere.
I felt it would be best if the program didn't suggest that "you can display
dataset X" unless the corresponding file was actually available to Guide.)

With the dataset turned On or Auto or Fixed, you should get an asterisk
next to "M31 Globulars". However, even then, there's the whole issue of
"Show At". This trips people up every now and then.
You may have the data turned On, but only at (say) fields of view from zero
to three degrees. Then you'll go to a five-degree field, and the data will
"mysteriously" vanish.

It can also be a good idea, as suggested by others, to turn labels on
and to set the color to something distinctive.

-- Bill