New DJI Air deletes saved waypoint flights

hedbonker · 2025-05-18T12:26:21-0400

Just as a heads up - After I updated to the new version of DJI Fly (1.17) yesterday it deleted my saved waypoint flights. I am sure it's related to the cloud save for the waypoint flights that is not available in the US yet (if ever).

GFields · 2025-05-18T12:28:03-0400

That's not good. I have saved several waypoint missions for several construction sites. That would really make my blood boil.

hedbonker · 2025-05-18T12:38:34-0400

Tell me about it - I got to my construction site this AM and had to rebuild my progress mission from scratch. I was not pleased. According to my research there is no way to back up the waypoint missions at this time.

GFields · 2025-05-18T19:46:54-0400

hedbonker said:
Tell me about it - I got to my construction site this AM and had to rebuild my progress mission from scratch. I was not pleased. According to my research there is no way to back up the waypoint missions at this time.

Going to try backing mine up.

I watched this but haven't tried it yet

hedbonker · 2025-05-18T22:04:09-0400

In case it helps anyone, I took a log file from a previous run of my way point mission and converted it to a GPX file and took that into Google Earth Pro. Then I went to the Fly app and loaded up my re-created version of the deleted way point mission and set the map to the main display and set the satellite layer active and then adjusted my way points in the plan to match the old log file's version so it should be very close to the original.

GFields said:
Going to try backing mine up.

I watched this but haven't tried it yet

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That guy covers Android - not that it matters. Restoring the way point mission will be the real trick. DJI's system uses SQLLite to manage all of it's data. If you take the way point files and just copy them back, they will not show up in the application. You will have to create records in the SQLLite DB that is stored on your mobile device running Fly so that the app has a reference to the files. Good luck with that