What a mind-numbing HACK! Purchased two new D4i and one ZOOP. Have used Vypers and Mosquitos for years with zero problems. I use Dive Manager 1.6 to log dives, again no problem but doesn't do new stuff (Never had luck with Suunto Dive Manager 2.0 - would not reliably connect with out BSOD or nothing??) Anyway, I've got dives on my new gear and I want to log them so, downloaded the new DM4, easy install on my Windows XP box, and an easy connect to a D4i. Great, now let's edit some fun info like my dive buddy, my dive site, my dive location, my ... So how to do that??? Then I found this forum, Suunto still hasn't fixed this software; that is totally ridiculous, and completely unprofessional. I guess I can use the Note field for that, but ... Well I want to download my wife's D4i too, where does that go?? Can't be done, she needs her own user id? How silly, even Dive Manager 1.6 lets you open different logbooks, and I use one for each computer. So this stupid hack will work, but it is a chore. DM4 version 1.1.123421 has a "Copy log folder path to clipboard" from Main menu:Help->About This is interesting. Paste the clipboard to a text editor. When you navigate to the bowels of your file system you can find a file under ...\Data\DM4.db Ahh,an SQL Lite version 3 database (which can ultimately be imported or linked in a Microsoft Access database, probably not useful, but...) NOW, this file can be copied. Rename it to something like yourname_divecomputermodel_DM4.db OK...Hacking away. Open DM4 and delete all the dives. Connect to another dive computer for me another D4i using the supplied USB cable (red-tipped) bam connecting and new dive sequences, then again save this to a new name, like hername_divecomputermodel_DM4.db Again reopen DM4 and delete all dives. Connect another dive computer like the ZOOP (I used my old Vyper/Mosquito serial connection cable) and Oh yes oh yes oh yes - a new dive sequence. Stored again in a copy with a unique name.
Now, all you hackers need to do is copy one of you personal .db files over the only file DM4 can see: DM4.db before you try to download your dive computer - be sure to match up computer with the proper database log and the file naming convention can help that.
So YOU CAN DO what some LAZY programmer neglected to provide, being a "Main Menu File->Open Log" command. All Suunto needed to do was look at their old software, and get a clue!
I still can't use their new program as a front end to a database, as the said they would do a year ago. But I will learn to suck their data in to my own database with the fields I want to track, so maybe in a bit I'll be able to provide such a thing to the community.
Maybe somebody already has ;^})
Thanks everybody.
---------- Post added June 30th, 2013 at 04:19 PM ----------
How did I miss PHOTOTOM's post from a year ago??? Well, Thanks Phototom, so obviously a year later Suunto prefers a hack.