The main reason I couldn't get it to work the first time I tried John's MY FILE steps is because I am a dunderhead who wasn't thinking.
Remember I said I accessed the cache and found the file and it was dated 5/14 for some strange reason? Nothing strange about it. I was looking at the copy of the file i had exported using the copy of the app on my cell phone. So when I emailed the file to gmail and then updated my phone, I copied the exact file over top of itself. It never had the routes in it to begin with.
However, when I stopped being stupid and took my smart pill, I realized, all of the steps John sent me for MY FILES had to be done on your FROM device. When I looked at the cache on my Tablet, it had 40 files in it, one of which was the one I exported today dated 5/21. Realizing what I had done wrong, I proceeded with the emailing part of the process and then picked up my phone and looked at the email to myself, and there was the file. I opened the file, up came the DCS WIFI app with a bullet statement telling me this will overwrite my file, I said ok, and success. I checked the routes screen and there they were.
It helps to know what the H you are doing when someone is nice enough to send you the steps to follow. Thanks to this forum i have learned a ton about how stuff works, and discovered I'm a bit of a dumba**** when it comes to following instructions.