[Gsak (geocaching Swiss Army Knife)]

Has anyone noticed a slow down in the speed of the new version of GSAK (5.6.0) when exporting files to MSST? I have a large benchmark database (13k) records and it takes over two hours to export it. In the older version it would only take about 3 or 4 minutes.

 

Clyde: I did try sorting on the DNF date column as you suggested and that solved the problem. I guess the presence of the index on that column made the difference.

 

Thanks for your help.

[Gsak (geocaching Swiss Army Knife)]

Additional information on the MSST export:

 

I took off the filter that I have on the database and exported the data and it works fine.

 

The filter has two arguments in it:

1) in the first tab "found" is unchecked and "not found" is checked and

2) on the dates tab the DNF Date is marked on or before 12/31/1999.

 

Once I put the 12/31/1999 date in the filter it causes the speed problem!

 

If I run the filter with only the first filter argument it works fine.

 

If I run the filter with another date it causes the problem.

 

Thoughts?

[Gsak (geocaching Swiss Army Knife)]

Thanks for the quick response. I am using the most current version of GSAK (5.6.0) and GPSBabel version 1.2.6_beta06072005. The problem occurs before GPSBabel is invoked.

 

I have tried reloading the GSAK software. Also the export works fine on smaller filters of the database. I suspect that there may be a bad record in the database. One other item of interest: it takes 2 hours on an XP machine but on a Win2000 machine the process stops responding almost immediately and hangs. This occurs right after the window appears that reads "Generating Streets & Trips file".

 

Thanks for your help.

[Gsak (geocaching Swiss Army Knife)]

Has anyone noticed a slow down in the speed of the new version of GSAK (5.6.0) when exporting files to MSST? I have a large benchmark database (13k) records and it takes over two hours to export it. In the older version it would only take about 3 or 4 minutes.