My experience was slightly different. I just upgraded a relatively new computer running Windows 10 to Windows 11 and have had no problem running Smart Fit, either. I think when I got the computer new a year and a half ago, I didn’t bother transferring my past .XML file or if I did, I copied an exported backup from a OneDrive cloud folder and imported that. I always put important files these days in the cloud - prices may be going up in the spring of 2022 but for a number of years now, $60 per year for Microsoft 365 Business Essentials gives one an Active Exchange Server account (from which one can run desktop Outlook with mail, contacts, calendars, MS ToDo tasks, and a bunch more) plus 1 Tb of business OneDrive cloud storage. Data is not only encrypted in transit to and from the cloud but also encrypted in residence. For another $100 per year, I get MS 365 Office Home Premium, which is more consumer oriented. Word, Excel, OneNote, Access, Outlook for use on up to 5 computers plus another 1 Tb of consumer OneDrive cloud storage. With the consumer version, data is encrypted in transit but not in residence in the cloud, the last time that I checked. Haven’t checked recently but one could share the MS 365 Office Home Premium subscription with something like 5 family members and they all get 1 Tb of disk storage each as well for the $100/year.
So, to make the above description relevant to important HA fitting history, with that amount of secure disk space, you could store copies of fitting software and fitting settings in the cloud and not have to worry about computer crashes or natural disasters, flood, hurricane, tornado, wildfire, earthquake, etc., that might destroy your home and everything in it. Microsoft cloud storage is redundant so if one of their data centers gets similarly destroyed, there are other copies of what you stored in the cloud, AFAIK.
I’ve gotten several Quattro replacements from my audi and initially, she wasn’t saving my settings and would just load her old settings for me into the new replacement HA. Finally, I got around to asking her to back up my settings in the problem HA that I turned in and load those into the replacement HA received. The reason being is that she could activate Remote Assistance for me but as soon as I mucked around with my HA’s, since I was only using a local copy of Smart Fit, that inactivated the Remote Assistance feature, which can only be set up/continued by an authorized provider. I had arrived at settings that I liked and valued having her retain those, copy them into the replacement HA provided, and be able to continue on with Remote Assistance, should I need it
