Well, I got brave, and decided to TRY to get my Azbox to plug that BIG default file back in. Yesterday, I was using the AzboxEditor sucessfully with respect to downloading FROM Azbox, and uploading TO Abox, so I thought that if I tried changing the files, and uploaded them, that maybe I could get it to put the default file back in.
Well, before I did this, I decided to re-organize the directory where I have AzboxEdit and all the associated files. Somehow, I messed things up, and AzboxEdit wouldn't run right. I finally reinstalled it (I thought), ran it, deleted one satellite which was a duplicate, and uploaded it to the Azbox.
AzboxEdit froze up. I terminated the process, ran it again, rebooted the Azbox, downloaded from the Azbox, and it looked like I still had the small satellite file, and the duplicate sat was gone.
. But then I went to the Azbox, and tried to go to a satellite, and all the channels were grayed out, saying no data available, and all the satellites were scrambled relative to longitude, ie they didn't have longitude data, or anything else for that matter.
So, I pulled up my FTP program, and FTP'd the 3 DAT files I had saved before starting all this. Rebooted the Azbox, and everything was back to normal.
Then, I realized that the AzboxEdit program that I *THOUGHT* I had reinstalled, was actually the 2880 version, not the more recent 2880a version. So I uninstalled, and reinstalled 2880a . Started it up, and downloaded from the Azbox, tried to delete the duplicate satellite. AzboxEdit bombed!
So now, I can't seem to do much of anything with any version of AzboxEdit, or any version of MAZ, other than download, and maybe upload an un-modified file (although I didn't try that today). But at least, I've had success using a plain old FTP program for restoring a good version of the files.