Chart File type
Astro Gold creates and uses chart files of the Solar Fire v6+ chart file format. These chart files have a "SFcht" file name extension. Examples of this would be "MyCharts.SFcht", or "FriendsCharts.SFcht".
Chart files may be interchanged between AstroGold and any other computer via email. This can be used to save and restore backup copies of your chart files, and if you own the Solar Fire astrology program (v6 or higher), then you may also use your chart files interchangeably with that program.
Exporting
To export a chart by email see "Export Chart file" in Settings.
Importing
To import a chart file by email, you must attach a Solar Fire v6+ chart file (*.SFcht) to an email and then send it to your device, and open it in the email app.
In the email app, open this email and tap on the attached chart file, and you will be prompted whether or not you wish to open it in AstroGold.
If a chart file of the same name already exists in AstroGold, then you will prompted whether to import only new (non-duplicate) charts, overwrite the existing file, or else to change the imported file name before it is added. Name changes of this type involve adding an underscore and a number to the end of the file name.
After adding a chart file this way, you can access it from a list of all chart files when selecting a chart to open from file, or when saving a chart to file, or when exporting a chart file.
Unlike iPhones and iPads, which are all basically the same, each manufacturer of an Android device builds it their own way, and not all of them handle email or email attachments in exactly the same. The method we have outlined above for Importing works on most Android devices to get the chart file you sent to your Android to show up in Astro Gold, but if it doesn't work sometimes you need to kind of trick the device.
In these cases the chart file you send in an email is still attached to the email, and so before we can get Astro Gold to view the chart file you may need to detach the file from the email.
So, open the email on the Android and you should have the option to download (or Save) the file. Once it is downloaded/saved it should go into your Download folder. Open that folder, tap the chart file that is in your Download folder and it should open it in Astro Gold. See Settings for info on how to do this from within Astro Gold.
However in some cases this may still not work. If it does not work for you then you may want to contact the manufacturer of your Android device and tell them that you cannot open attachments that come with your emails and request that this is rectified.
