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Martin / Lynn Sorry about my grumpy reply yesterday, I had a bad day yesterday and just got a little touchy, I hope that you can accept my apologies and I'm still willing to help Milton (aka moote)

Team Maddie I would never make an assumption on anyone's ability I'm sorry if my comments has been misunderstood. As for the second point; that is entirely my point; that is why I thought of merging a successful local event with your event so as you get no overlap. I understand event organisation as I have been involved in the past, in organising events that have a multimillion pound budget and I realise the importance of attracting people to an event. I was just bouncing ideas, but if my comments are unwelcome then I will shut up and leave the thread and wish you all well with this venture. Milton (aka moot)

Just thinking about this remark, there are many successful events all over the country and wherever the event is planned I'm sure that it will always be within 10's of miles of another events location although the date may be different. Just a thought here, but maybe we could get on board an organiser from a successful event and join the two up to make the UK event. As most events have not yet been planned for next year this is an ideal time to start communicating. After all it would more than likely increase the size of the event for the particular organiser, also we could move the event on yearly, but that one is for another day really Milton (aka Moote)

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I think that a committee will be the only way to resolve the issue of location, we should get together ASAP and start working towards a place and then we all can start to plan our future I do think that everyone involved in the process should consider certain things including but not excluding any other factors: 1: Distance and Population base within a reasonable distance 2: Accessibility both by car and Public transport 3: Caching potential 4: Facilities available cost (Including a frothy beer supply for Slytherin) 5: Access from mainland Europe and Ireland Point 5 should not be the most strict of criteria after all this is a UK event, but we should try as best as we can to make it an accessible location for our European / Irish brothers / sisters I think that this list is a start for consideration, what we should not do is allow our own bias rule the venue, Lynn I know it will be hard to please all; but not everyone can win, it's just about balance and that is where having a set of criteria will help in making a fair choice Milton (aka Moote)

Thought of a name if we had it in the Peak District UKGeoWoodstock - The Peak of British Caching Milton (aka Moote)

Another good idea for a location would be in the Peak District, Why? You might ask, well it is well serviced by the UK motorway Network, M6 to the West and South and the M1 to the East and M62 to the North, as well as many other main arteries which skirt around or through it. Also when you look at the list of major cities within 60 miles of the Peak District that can only help with getting a high attendance Birmingham 60 miles Leicester 55 miles Lincoln 55 miles Manchester 25 miles Leeds 35 miles Sheffield 12 Miles Liverpool 50 miles Nottingham 35 miles Derby 30 miles Stoke-on-Trent 35 miles Bradford 30 miles London 150 miles Bristol 130 Miles And 200 from Glasgow and Edinburgh Distances is rough from the Castleton / Hope area, and there are plenty of places to stay and also lots of really good caches. If I come up with anymore Ideas I will be glad to help and if you require any help count me in Thanks Milton (aka Moote)

Sounds like a really good idea, I will attend :-) I have an idea for a location, the accepted geographical centre of the UK according to the OS is a place called Dunsop Bridge in the Bowland Forest It is a lovely area and very unspoilt maybe we could look around there. Moote !!!!!!

Hi Just had a look at your macro, looks good. One question, if I read it correctly are you copying the files to an 'old' folder and then deleting them from the original folder? If this is correct could you not replace the 2nd & 3rd RUNPGM lines with just 1 using the 'move' command instead of the 'copy' and 'del' ? Something like this might work ... RUNPGM Pgm="C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" Parms= /C Move "E:\GeoTemp\*.zip" "E:\GeoTemp\old\*.zip" Wait=Yes I've not tried this myself but I would hope it'd work. Yes I thought of using Move as apposed to copy then del, Now here is something interesting Copy loves the wildcard * use it in the Move function and nowt happens . Not sure if this is a quirk of the implementation of DOS within XP or has it always been the case, just spent an hour playing with Move in a cmd box and can't get any joy so copy and del it will be. The Move help is next to useless; no it’s not even that good really. Also I think that an earlier remark regarding the Wait=Yes not working actually stands as that appears to give problems now and again. I think that where I am now though makes for a happy chappy . Do you know if you can submit Macro’s anywhere? Other than in this news Forum. Do I need to look at setting up such a facility on the web? Once again thanks for all your help Moote Hi again Yes I thought of using Move as apposed to copy then del, Now here is something interesting Copy loves the wildcard * use it in the Move function and nowt happens . Not sure if this is a quirk of the implementation of DOS within XP or has it always been the case, just spent an hour playing with Move in a cmd box and can't get any joy so copy and del it will be. The Move help is next to useless; no it’s not even that good really. Also I think that an earlier remark regarding the Wait=Yes not working actually stands as that appears to give problems now and again. I think that where I am now though makes for a happy chappy . Do you know if you can submit Macro’s anywhere? Other than in this news Forum. Do I need to look at setting up such a facility on the web? Once again thanks for all your help Moote

Hi Just had a look at your macro, looks good. One question, if I read it correctly are you copying the files to an 'old' folder and then deleting them from the original folder? If this is correct could you not replace the 2nd & 3rd RUNPGM lines with just 1 using the 'move' command instead of the 'copy' and 'del' ? Something like this might work ... RUNPGM Pgm="C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" Parms= /C Move "E:\GeoTemp\*.zip" "E:\GeoTemp\old\*.zip" Wait=Yes I've not tried this myself but I would hope it'd work. Yes I thought of using Move as apposed to copy then del, Now here is something interesting Copy loves the wildcard * use it in the Move function and nowt happens . Not sure if this is a quirk of the implementation of DOS within XP or has it always been the case, just spent an hour playing with Move in a cmd box and can't get any joy so copy and del it will be. The Move help is next to useless; no it’s not even that good really. Also I think that an earlier remark regarding the Wait=Yes not working actually stands as that appears to give problems now and again. I think that where I am now though makes for a happy chappy . Do you know if you can submit Macro’s anywhere? Other than in this news Forum. Do I need to look at setting up such a facility on the web? Once again thanks for all your help Moote

You're welcome. Just a further bit of advice, you might need to add wait=YES to the end of the code I posted. This will ensure that the renaming procedure is complete BEFORE GSAK continues with the next command in your macro. Cheers. Edited to add: Hmmm, it seems that adding the wait=YES that I posted above stops the line from working - therefore ignore it! Thanks once again, added the wait=yes to the end I have also automated the whole thing here is a sample of the macro: GETMAIL Settings="EmailAccoutSettings" OnError=Prompt RUNPGM Pgm="C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" Parms= /C ren "E:\GEOTemp\*.zm9" *.zip Wait=Yes LOAD Settings="NameOfDatabaseBeingUpdated" RUNPGM Pgm="C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" Parms= /C "Copy "E:\GeoTemp\*.zip" "E:\GeoTemp\old\*.zip" Wait=Yes RUNPGM Pgm="C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" Parms= /C "Del E:\GeoTemp\*.zip" Wait=Yes Hope that looks OK to you, comments are welcome Thanks again Moote As to your added comment, it is working fine on mine

Thanks for the macro Motley Crew Set it up and it is working fine, now I will investigate integrating this into the email download and then import routine to make this a seamless procedure Cheers Moote

Forgive me if this topic has been raised before, I had a quick look in the historic messages but could not find anything. I am using GSAK (5.5.1 build 21 registered version) and also the Latest version of ZoneAlarm Pro (version 5.5.094.000). When I use the email facility within GSAK to download Pocket Query Zip files ZoneAlarm renames them with a file extension of zm9 eg 123456.zm9 I can see the reason why ZoneAlarm actually does this and think that the feature is a good protection to anyones PC, so would be unwilling to turn it off. Would it be possible for a future version of GSAK to rename these files back to zip so that they can be automatically imported into the Database after download? Thanks moote (aka Milton)