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It's something I have noticed for years but ever since we started caching it has become more apparant. Has anybody else noticed the amount of single shoes that are left lying about, often in the most inacessable of places? How do people lose a shoe and not notice? How do they get home and what explanation do they give? They can't all be drunk, and why oh why does approximately 90% of all discarded footwear appear to be of the left foot variety? C'mon, there must be an answer out there and before you ask, yes I have thought of a certain celebrity but am too tasteful to mention her myself.

Many thanks, I'll give it a go, hopefully it will also explain why I don't seem to be able to have caches and memory map on my pda at the same time. Life used to be so easy.....

This has probably been asked before but if it has I can't find it, apologies if I'm re-going over old ground, it is probably so obvious to somebody who knows the answer - but I don't so it isn't! Having managed to place memory map (v4.4.3) on my pda, how do I now export caches from GSAK onto it? I've gone down the obvious route of file-export-memory map. Then I come to my problem. In the GSAK Help page it asks if I would like to >>> use the new "custom icons" that Memory Map supports, then: 1. Create all the bitmap (.bmp) files of all your required custom icons (as specified in the Memory Map documentation) 2. Create a file called "memory.txt" to tell GSAK about these custom icons, and put this file in the install folder of GSAK It is advised that you place the bitmap files in step 1 into the GSAK "UserImages" folder (a sub folder in the install folder of GSAK) so that they are saved and restored when doing a GSAK backup/restore.<<< All I want to do is look at my MM and see icons where there are caches and then click on them to open up their description, just like using Google Earth, is this what MM does? Is all the above in italics about using the icons we all know and love from Geocaching/Google Earth or are "custom icons" what they say ie customised to my own taste? So, basically, do I just follow the "Export Memory Map CSV File Dialog Box" word for word or does it have to be altered to suit an individual, or is there, somewhere, a simple button that you press to make everything fit into its own place and all the caches magically appear on my pda? The easier the route the better in my opinion. Muchas Grassyarse.

You owe me a new computer chair, just peed myself laughing!

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"grumpy moo" ! ROFL! Love it! Oh I wish you'd had a camcorder with you to record that, it would be priceless.

I find one of two ways always works, the less stressful is to sit in the car and persuade the wife that it's a real girly cache and not fit for boys, the second is to shoot the lead cow and hide behide it whilst the others charge past (well it always works in the cowboy films). I was maintaining one of our caches the other day when in the next field was a huge heard of bucking bullocks (spelling?) charging from one end to the other, fortunately I did not have to go that way but spectacular it certainly was.

The reason I don't have my photograph on my profile is that certain people have been looking for me for a long time and I don't want them to realise that I am still alive, never mind still in the country agghhhh no! I've given the game away.... I'll have to move house again now...mutter mutter...I'm always doing that..tsk Lord Lucan.

WAHAYYYYYYYY Guess what? You guys fixed it, a million thanks, I can persuade Mrs Gingerbreadman it is now safe to go out into the wilds without hundreds of pieces of paper blowing everywhere. The only problem I have now is that with my new glasses and staring at the little screen on my ppc I now look like - Now then, should I buy a lap-top ? hmmmm

Hopefully this will be my last plea for assistance, well until the next time anyway. I have created a filter in GSAK, I have created a folder on my desktop called My Documents. When I activate the filter I get a desktop icon (GSAK Swiss flag thingy) also called my documents. How do I get my filtered results into my ppc? (Step by step guidance for thickies required here). I almost managed it once before somehow but all I got on my GSAK was "Not enough memory" I couldn't do anything with my ppc so I hard reset it and reloaded GPXSonar (Are you still with me at the back there?) Mind you I was trying to download the entire UK database for a very busy caching weekend that never came off. Now I seem to be totally stuck again and I want to go out on Saturday without half a forest in my bag.

Guess what, as we are the Gingerbreadmen I took a picture of... you guessed it. And no, they don't look like us, they're far more attractive (and taste nicer too).

Yep, it's to do with GSAK. I was attempting to follow instructions to the letter to download stuff from the aforementioned to GPXSonar. I still can't do it 'cos I have now hit yet another problem, but as it's cracking the flags outside I'll leave my next plea for help for when the temperature drops. Thanks to all for the help by the way.

Got it now, I tried doing that before but my status bar was always out of view, that'll teach me to maximise my window. (Crawls away in embarrassed state)...

Many thanks for that, I know I'm being really dim but what name to the left to hover over? I'm not being deliberately stupid....honest!

Is there an easy way for a simple soul to find out his (or her) owner ID? I KNOW it can be done "by opening up a GPX file in any text editor and searching for a cache you have placed" I'm sorry but you might as well ask me to explain the inner workings of an aardvarks bum in Cantonese. (If notepad is a text editor I can't use it as my 'puter won't let me... nasty white box thing!)

That's great, thankyou, all I need to do now is train my daughter how to work the downloads so she'll have everything ready for me when I come back from caching!

Mark & Lynn's wonderful paperless guide includes dates for downloading close to 500 caches at at time up to August 2004 ( although when I used their dates mine were often touching 300 odd instead of being in the high 400s, are these due to lots of caches being archived?) Anyhow, back to the topic, is there an up to date list of dates available somewhere so I can be a lazy so and so and not have to re-invent them all myself? I have searched through all the topics (I'm not that lazy) but couldn't find anything... all help, as usual, gratefully received.

You absolutely wonderful people, I was close to throwing my new toy out of the pram, you have saved me going totally insane and I can't thank you enough. I realise that I'm on a (for me) steep learning curve but at least I can now go out without spending an hour printing off reams of paper only to throw them in the recycling box later that evening, usually with at least half of them with a big black DNF scrawled across. Once again, many thanks, your help has been invaluable. (Happy now!)

Thanks for that both, my problem as I have stated elsewhere is that I need a really simple do this, see that box, no not that one, the one on it's left that says "press here" press it. A computer expert I am not (I knew I should have stuck to Subbuteo). I have managed to get some waypoints onto GSAK, my problem now is trying to get them onto my pda, I have managed it, more by luck than design methinks but I must be doing something wrong with my filters as I get the name of the cache, its co-ords. location ( which is always no state), date of hiding and waypoint no. It does not load the type of cache, it's description, hint or the last 4 logs. I'm off to the pub to mellow out, I've had enough...hic!

Following Mark and Lynn's advice on how to set up pocket queries for the entire UK database to upload to GSAK I have struck a problem that may well be staring me in the face but as usual I am blind to it. I have completed the pocket query so I get all the dates from Dec 01 2000 to June 28 2002 (and for some reason have ones much later than those dates also, but I digress). To upload do I have to "check all" on each page and repeat this for all 25 pages before starting on my next set of 25 pages or is there a little button (or trick) hiding somewhere that enables me to check all 500 waypoints at once? If I do have to repeat it infinitum I'm going to miss tonight's Archers and we can't be having that, can we?

Brilliant, that worked a treat, just got to sort out the caches now but at least I'm up and running, many thanks, I shall toast you with a pint (or two) tonight.

I realise that this is probalby going to be so easy but unless I have instructions along the "Find start button on your computer, now press it to turn it on..." style of simplicity I just can't seem to cope, here goes. I have just acquired a Pocket pc (not palm). I want to load cachemate onto it, I have gone to the cachmate site and downloaded it onto my pc. "Cachmate will not operate on the pc", ok fair enough but how do I get it onto my pda? If I understand it correctly I need to open the programme to drag it onto the pda from pc, to open cachmate I need to purchase it, to purchase it I need the Smittywave ID which is apparantly provided at the programme's registration prompt. How the heck do I get to the prompt stage? I have read & re-read Lynne & Mark's excellent Paperless caching and Moote's likewise excellent Guide but I know I'm missing something. Short of somebody giving up their bank holiday and coming around to the house to sit with me and mop my brow as I struggle is there a foolproof guide for the most basic of tasks that I have missed somewhere? Any and all help gratefully welcomed, until then it's back to the A4 I'm afraid... bugger!

I know I'll probably get shot down for this but... I was in t' pub the other night with a fellow cacher (Hi there, you know who you are) when he reaches into his goody bag and pulls out a yellow jeep. I'd never seen one in the flesh (tin?) before and could hardly contain my disapointment, what a tiny, over-rated piece of stuff to come out of a cache, definitely a case of the Emperor's new clothes methinks, and in a group of two at that table I wasn't the only one smirking either. At least I saw it before making any detours to pick up the icon which really would have disapointed me. Ah well, each to his own, just thought I'd throw my pennysworth in for devilment

I drive in miles but cache in metric, only because my gps was set to metric when I bought it and I never got round to changing it. I will however, never change it back, it's all psychological I know but Kms are much quicker to walk between caches, and I know I would much rather glance down at my machine and see the distance to go falling more quickly. Just me being a lazy bounder I suppose.

Done and printed off! Very useful information that would have taken me from now to eternity to work out on my own and will be put into practice as soon as my abacus arrives. Many thanks, Andy