It is interesting how knowledge disappears from the general hive mind over time. Just about every window has a menu there, it is called the "System Menu", and in the old days, this was also where you closed the program (try double-clicking the icon), the "X" button in the top right is of newer date.

Back in Win3 days it looked like a minus sign, but in Win95 it was replaced with the program icon instead.

Does it get better if you hide the grid? The grid shouldn't normally interfere, unless it is on the wrong layer, but turning it off is a good test.

How about a Source Maps: Cities style map, like the Panicale example map.

Probably a level or two....

I think that is a situation where both options are actually good, because both are very viable sorting options. But filenames can only be in one format, so I guess the format as currently presented is fine. Actually, I think the one you present above is the best of the two, because if I just want middle eastern stuff, I can easily filter on the keyword in Windows explorer, and then sort the result among them.

The Color Key effect can work with any color you want. Magenta (Color #6 in the CC3+ palette) is used by default since very few maps would contain this color naturally, but it can be changed to another color if you need to.

The reason for this is simply that paths are embedded in the symbol catalog the same way as with the maps. When you load a symbol catalog, CC3+ looks for the images where the embedded paths in the symbol catalog say they are, which may or may not point to that folder of images next to it. When you just open up the folder of images on the other hand, it will always work, simply because you are opening up the path they are right now. Simply opening up a folder of images will always work (Well, at least there and then, maps created using the symbols like that may still display red X's when viewed from another computer), so this isn't really a good test if thing works.

The fact that it works on one computer and not another do tell me that there are some difference in your path somewhere. For example, is your google drive folder inside our profile folder on your computers? If they are (they normally would be), are you using the exact same username on both computer? If not, there will be a difference there.

A good, easy way to spot path problems is to first go to one of the computers, then using windows file explorer, hold down shift and right click on of the problematic image files and pick the "copy as path" option. Paste this into a text file. Then repeat on the other computer, making sure to pick the exact same file as before, and past this into the same file on the line below. This should make any differences very easy to spot. If those two lines are not 100% identical in their entirety from start to finish, you have your problem

One last note, when testing if symbol catalogs work, I recommend always starting a new blank map to test the symbol catalog with. Once you place a symbol in a map, CC3+ is going to keep using the reference in the map, so if this is incorrect, the symbol catalog will appear not to work even if things are OK. By starting with a blank map for each test, you can always be sure that the reason for whatever result is due to the symbol catalog, not existing symbols in the map.

Situations like these are why relative paths are STRONGLY recommended. Making absolute paths sync up across multiple PC's are a real hassle. I understand your desire to use a cloud drive for easy backup and synchronization, but this does complicate things a lot for CC3+, as once it is outside it's normal domain (the data directory), the only real way to specify file names are with absolute paths. If you feel comfortable using the command line in Windows, you can also create file system links (NOT the same as the shortcuts you can make in the Windows GUI normally) to make one folder appear multiple places, but that is a bit advanced and not recommended unless you already feel comfortable with filesystem type commands.

Here's the path from the file for one of the symbols. Notice a bit of a difference?

"C:\Users\timhi\Google Drive\D&D\D&D pics\CC3 symbols\Randoms\rock new 2020\rock1.png"

With this path, it shouldn't work on either of the PC's. Why things may seem to work on your desktop pc may be one of these:

• Maybe the Google Drive folder was given a new name at some time, but you still have the old folder on the computer too (old and abandoned, but still there) which is where CC3+ find it's files
• You said you tried with a blank map and "still have the red crosses", which indicates to me that you did this test on the laptop. Have you tried using the symbol catalog with a blank map on your desktop PC? Does it still work then, or do it turn into red X'es there too?

Hi,

What do you mean when you say it won't load up? Doesn't CC3+ start with SS6 installed? Or don't you have the SS6 Templates in the City category in the new map wizard? Or are the symbol catalogs missing? I need some more information to try to figure out what the problem could be.