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Saving files

 

We recommend that you save every map or aerial photograph you pay for. As you work, Promap will prompt you to save files frequently. At the risk of sounding prescriptive, It is best practice to save your files at regular intervals, in addition to the prompts from Promap. That way, if your computer should crash for any reason, you won't have lost too much work.

Any map file you save is saved on our server, not on your computer. Promap will not allow you to save a Promap file on your computer. This has the following advantages:

Provides a secure place to store your files

Keeps your company's computers disk space free

Allows you to search for saved Detail maps with the same location as a new site

Gives you a ready-made folder structure to store map files, templates, and colour schemes. You can create your own subfolders if you wish.

When you save your map or aerial photograph, Promap saves all the map layers that you have looked at together with any customisations you have made. By clicking the Save button, you save a whole set of map layers and/or aerial photographs and not just the map or aerial photograph displayed on your screen at the time. This is why we talk in terms of 'Saving Files'.

The only exception to this is historical maps. These cannot be viewed or saved within the Promap software. Once you have purchased historical maps you can save them on your computer as either PDF or GIF files.

You can also save a copy of any printed map and aerial photograph as an image file (.bmp, .png, .gif, jpeg and for all layers except Detail  geotiff as well) on your computer.

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See also

To save a file for the first time

To save an existing file

To save changes to a read only file

To create a new folder

To organise files and folders