Anomaly encountered when loading identical Profiles, into two different ALP systems.

[radargeek]

I thought it writes out a separate STATS.ALP file now when you pull statistics? Does it overwrite the CONFIG.ALP as well? Even if it did, shouldn't the overwritten file contain the same settings (assuming you didn't change any settings manually on the unit)?

Anyway, I would try what BRD suggested. Copy a fresh config.alp to your USB and then put it into each unit without doing anything else, then check the settings afterward.

I'll try on mine later. I'll pull statistics onto an empty USB drive and see if it writes out a config.alp as well, and then compare to my original.

[BestRadarDetectors]

I thought it writes out a separate STATS.ALP file now when you pull statistics? Does it overwrite the CONFIG.ALP as well? Even if it did, shouldn't the overwritten file contain the same settings (assuming you didn't change any settings manually on the unit)?

Anyway, I would try what BRD suggested. Copy a fresh config.alp to your USB and then put it into each unit without doing anything else, then check the settings afterward.

I'll try on mine later. I'll pull statistics onto an empty USB drive and see if it writes out a config.alp as well, and then compare to my original.

It writes both a Stats file and a Config file so we can get the Stats and also a copy of the loaded config file if needed for support.

[modsl55amg]

I thought it writes out a separate STATS.ALP file now when you pull statistics? Does it overwrite the CONFIG.ALP as well? Even if it did, shouldn't the overwritten file contain the same settings (assuming you didn't change any settings manually on the unit)?

Anyway, I would try what BRD suggested. Copy a fresh config.alp to your USB and then put it into each unit without doing anything else, then check the settings afterward.

I'll try on mine later. I'll pull statistics onto an empty USB drive and see if it writes out a config.alp as well, and then compare to my original.

radargeek: Please take a look at my reply, above, to BRD. It may better explain the exact steps I took in performing the loading of new Profiles into the two ALP systems, as well as what I did to obtain a Statistics and Use printout for both systems after the new Profiles were loaded.

I have not manually reconfigured either one of the two ALP systems.

From what I remember seeing on my laptop after inserting the flash drive with the Statistics and Use files on it, which were obtained after I had loaded both systems, there were two files: a Statistics file which contained the three Profiles, the Device Information, and the Alerts by Source information. I printed this file out for each car.

The second file that was automatically loaded onto the flash drive was a Configuration file, which only contained the three Profiles, but no Alerts by Source information.

I used the exact same flash drive, which contained the three new Profiles, to load the systems on both cars, Car 1 first, then, a few minutes later, Car 2. Nothing else was/is on that flash drive. The flash drive I used to obtain the Statistics and Use information from the ALP system in each car was a different flash drive. I still have the flash drive with the original three new Profiles still on it. Nothing else has been placed on that flash drive.

I think I am going to generate a new file, containing the exact same Profiles and settings on another properly formatted flash drive. I will duplicate the exact settings and Profiles that I have on Car 1. I will download it into ALP system on Car 2, and see if the system correctly accepts all of the settings in all three Profiles. I'll write and advise what takes place after the load is complete.

Thanks for your reply!