LBSurfer

Just curious if someone could tell me what happened to this site? I was out of the game for about a year and, when I came back, that site was down. From what I remember, it was a pretty cool, informative place....

Thanks - it's amazing that the GC.com page doesn't make that more easily found. I've been searching their site for a few days and haven't stumbled across that...

Can anyone tell me who's in charge of LI caches? I have a cache that I'm trying to transfer ownership to someone else. I've tried PM'ing a member who helped me before as well as posting a note on the cache and no one has responded. Any thoughts? It's this cache Ole Fish'n Hole on the Bay (GC3D6). Thanks in adavance.

Thanks for the heads up on the links to paperless caching. It'll be a good reference for some of us who are still coming around

This error should only come up when you are using a move/copy where the destination database has not yet been opened under version 6.5 What this implies is that your macro is doing a move/copy to a database that has not yet been opened under 6.5 Take a look at your macro and check every move/copy line you have in it and make sure you have opened each of the corresponding databases at least once before running it. Thanks Clyde - apparently you need to skip the opening macro, open every DB and let it upgrade to 6.5, close GSAK, and restart GSAK. I had opened each DB after the error occurred previously, but it never 'took' for whatever reason (it never asked me if I wanted it to back-up the DB's upon exiting the program). The above process took care of everything. Thanks for a great tool!!!! And the support is, by far, the best I've ever had with any software!

I've had a start-up macro that has run fine the last few releases. It basically checks my mail, improts new PQ's and sorts them as I designate. All of a sudden, I'm getting the following error midway through the macro running: I hit OK and then viewed each DB to 'update' them. I then ran the macro again. Same error. I restarted GSAK. Same error occurred. I can't seem to see what I'm doing wrong. Any ideas?

BINGO! The locations are not waypoints, rather points to measure from. For instance, I put the coordinates of home, work, my folks, etc into GSAK and then I'm able to sort my DB's and find what's closest to each location. You'll build a DB once you get your PQ file....also, you can download individual GPX files from individual cache pages if you want to at least see how GSAK works while you're waiting for your PQ file to show up.

Embassy Suites?

This might interest you. Been working this for hours - I can't get it to work. I download it (there doesn't seem to be a setup file, just a copy of a directory) and create the st2gpx.bat file, but can't seem to get it to work. I'm using MS S&T 2000 and Windows XP. I copied the bat file straight from the website. Am I missing anything????

This might interest you. You just made my day! MUCH appreciated! I can't wait to get home and give it a go! That's going to save a bunch of time and allow me to do much more complicated routes without pulling my hair out.

You're right, it is time consuming, but well worth it. You can find coordinates of the interstate at major 'turns' (changes in directions) and then build an arc/poly filter for your route that will only pick up caches (of whatever type you filter) that are X amount of miles off the road you are travelling on. It's a great feature in GSAK that I just recently really started playing with. It does take a little time up front to get the points (I use MS S&T) and then enter them into the filter. But, once it's done, it's done and you can save it for future use. Best part is that you don't have to load a ton of caches that you'll never even think about getting...only ones along your route.

Ditto - however, I've noticed that if I use the Save As function, the file will be saved. The kicker is that the editor doesn't recognize the name of the file, so when I 'X' out of the editor (or go to File/Exit), it still says "Macro text has changed. Do you want to save changes?" Instead of saving to the previously saved file (via Save As function), it essentially performs a Save As function and asks me for a new file name - prompting me in the normal means of "That files already exists, blah, blah, blah" when I try to overwrite the file that I want to save it to. I hope all that made sense

1. Click on the Tools pulldown menu. 2. Click on Options 3. Change the button as indicated in the picture below

Yes it does - while in the Macro Editor select 'File' then 'Save' or 'Save as' and give it a name (the default is 'New Macro') It does have a weird behavior when compared to any other windows-ish app. Normally, when you do a Save As, after typing in the name and hitting save, the current document becomes the saved document. In the Macro editor, it doesn't, even though the document got saved. You'd have to re-load the Save As file and you'll be fine from then on. Just a little quirk I can live with. --Marky I've noticed this as well when editing or creating macros lately. You have to save them a few times (usually with the Save As function) to have them show up. I've actually had to 're-develop' a few macros because I thought they were saved when they weren't. I've found using notepad is an easier option for now. Edit: I suppose I should read through ALL the comments before I post Seems like some of you folks already made reference to using Notepad

Read over the help menu section on GSAK Automation and then open some of the existing macros and try and follow along with what they are doing. A lot of people will write comments before each part of the macro to explain what it's doing - reading these and having the help file printed out and handy will make understanding how the macro works pretty easy. It's definitely something you have to put a little time into and isn't going to come in the snap of a finger. BUT, putting the time in to learn how they work will benefit you tenfold.

What version of GSAK are you running? Version 5.5 intoduced many new features that allow you to handle this type of situation. When you do a filter, GSAK sets a system variable called $_FilterCount. All you need to do is use this variable in an if statement: #Filter out all the 'DNF' Caches Filter Name="DNF" Reverse=No # Only do the following statements if filter has waypoints If $_FilterCount > 0 # Move the 'DNF' Caches to the DNF DB MOVECOPY Settings="DNF" ENDIF # Return to Default DB DATABASE Name="Default" Action=select Thanks Clyde...I knew it was just something simple I was missing. (I'm running the latest version btw). Much, much appreciated.

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So, I wrote a fairly simple macro to import my PQ's from my mail and then separate everything out. What I'm having problems with is when I want to sort out my DNF's. When I run the macro and there's no DNF's, it defaults to the WP's in the existing DB and then moves them ALL to the DNF DB. It's the same as getting one of these errors And then having GSAK revert back to the pre-existing DB that you were trying to filter from. Here's the code for the Macro. Any help on being able to actually use the DNF Filter and MOVECOPY commands w/o moving the whole DB when I don't have a DNF come in on my PQ would be most appreciated. ################################################################# # UPDATE HISTORY ################################################################# # # 05.05.05 - Added Filtering and DB Management for caches near # Mom & Dad. Added UPDATE HISTORY header. # # 05.01.05 - Fine tuned Filtering and sorting features # # 04.29.05 - Macro creation date # ################################################################# # Select Default DB DATABASE Name="Default" Action=select # Get PQ's from POP3 Mail GETMAIL Settings="Earthwake_Mail" OnError=Prompt # Filter out all the 'Found' Caches FILTER Name="My Found Caches (GSAK default)" Reverse=No # Move the 'Found' Caches to the Found DB MOVECOPY Settings="Found_Caches" ################################################################# # For future release once OWNED Caches are introduced ################################################################# # # Return to Default DB # DATABASE Name="Default" Action=select # # # Filter out all the 'Owned' Caches # FILTER Name="My Owned Caches (GSAK default)" Reverse=No # # # Move the 'Owned' Caches to the Owned DB # MOVECOPY Settings="Owned_Caches" ################################################################# # Return to Default DB DATABASE Name="Default" Action=select # Filter out all Massachusetts Caches FILTER Name="Massachusetts" Reverse=No # Move the MA Caches to the Mom & Dad DB MOVECOPY Settings="Wrentham" # Return to Default DB DATABASE Name="Default" Action=select # Filter out all Rhode Island Caches FILTER Name="Rhode Island" Reverse=No # Move the MA Caches to the Mom & Dad DB MOVECOPY Settings="Wrentham" # Return to Default DB DATABASE Name="Default" Action=select ################################################################# # For future consideration if DNF Caches become a major concern ################################################################# # #Filter out all the 'DNF' Caches # Filter Name="DNF" Reverse=No # # # Move the 'DNF' Caches to the DNF DB # MOVECOPY Settings="DNF" # # # Return to Default DB # DATABASE Name="Default" Action=select ################################################################# The only way I can think of doing this is to add the DNF FILTER and MOVECOPY commands and then go to the DNF DB, run a reverse DNF FILTER and MOVECOPY that subset BACK to the default DB. That's a ton of work though.