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Are these battery packs thicker than the original ? Therefore preventing use of purpose built cradles ?

Strange the 350 and 550 should be considered older PDAs as they're relatively new compared to my IPAQ 5550, which runs a 4GB card to full capacity no problem. Shame, that's just put me right off replacing my old IPAQ with a P550, instead of moving forward, this will be a step backwards.

You can copy from disc to disc, but it's better done as a fresh installation. edit to add, you should get a CD with the package.

There's a function similar to this on Memeory Map. They both need an internet connection to work.

I have an IPAQ 5550 with a Hi Speed 4GB sd card. Works fine, didn't have to do anything with it. just plug it in and go. I have heard some say that the big cards need reformatting in the PDA to get the PDA to use the full capacity. Also, some older PDAs won't run more than 1 or sometimes 2 GB, due to the way the processor handles memory.

MM2004 can be loaded from your PC to your PDA easily. Look along the menu bar at the top and click on PDA. Send map to PDA; this sends the entire map region that you're currently looking at on the PC screen. Send visible map portion; does just that, sends the area you can see on your PC screen. I've been using MM2004 for over a year now - it's great on the PDA. When buying cards to load maps on the PDA, make they are Hi Speed cards, otherwise it'll take for ever to load them from the PC. It's also worth considering a large card for MM use, mainly because you can then load more maps and not have to keep loading different areas if you travel around the country a lot. (I use it for a lot of other navigation needs other than caching). I have the whole of England and Wales (Regions 1-8) loaded onto a 4GB card along with TT5, CachMate, GPX Sonar, GPSGate and a few other small programs. This uses around 3GB of space, leaving 1GB for loading other maps or software, plus space for the PDA to use for working. Each MM2004 region is around 300 - 350 MB in size. I used to use a smaller (1GB, normal speed) card, but got fed up with reloading maps every time I went to a different part of the country, as well as the amount of time it took just to load a map. Another nice quirk is running TT and Memory Map at the same time. You can have MM on screen and TT running in the background, giving verbal directions. If you spend a bit of time setting the buttons programming up, it quick to swap between running applications. Hope this helps. Edit to add, I only need GPSGate as I have an older PDA with a separate bluetooth GPSr, so need to split the BT signal to run several apps together (MM, TT and sometimes CacheMates CacheNav).

You just never know. there never was much of an order in the first place, could have been by date, alphabetically, numerically, but always seemed to be a bit hit or miss, even more so now.

Ditto - you live and learn, nice one.

One way of doing it. Download, and save, each gpx file, then in a new GSAK database, import each one indivually. or, Download your PQ as normal and then use the filter function in GSAK to filter out the ones you don't want. i.e. put a tick in the "user flag" column and filter out those not ticked. Hope this helps.

There's some good caches on the Wirral and plenty to choose from, one of PhilPamandRobs puzzles or multis might be worth a look. Wirral Caches bookmark Millennium for 1000 The Ghostly Haunted Trail The Open - Royal Liverpool G C : The Claret Jug, if you've time for the 9 that lead up to it. The Wirral Challenge All well thought out caches that I particularly enjoyed doing. (Well, they would be, being Phil's )

Congratulations to the two of you, roll on the next milestone for you.

Is it me, or has there been a New Year resolution (maybe revolution) - not had a problem for a few days now

Link to macro added ..........

Mine arrived today, posted on 20th, so a quick delivery, considering the Xmas post etc... It's heading for Meycauayan, Philippines.

If you load them into GSAK a new macro that's available will show the co-ords in Google Earth / Maps too. Link to GSAK forum macro Edit to add link to the macro on the GSAK forum

Several times over the last few days the server has been too busy or just timed out. Isn't it about time more servers were put into use for premium members, after all, isn't that one of the things our subscriptions are used for. Been very annoying not being able to run PQs or even do a few searches or some other research. I'm sat here at the moment having to take a chance on the PQs I already have for a trip out with the kids, but could be about to go looking for some that aren't there just because I can't check them. And you try explaining to my kids why they can't find a large, regular, 1/1, when it's there on the PDA. This has been happening, on and off, all year and we keep being told that servers are being optimised or whatever, but there are too many times still when the busy error comes up. Maybe a dedicated servers for Europe and the States would be the answer so we're not all trying to use the same hardware at the same time. Normally it's just Friday eves and Sunday eves here that are the problem (with the odd outage during the week - maintenance ??), but over the festive hols, it's been pretty much every day. Surley this must indicate we've outgrown either the servers or the bandwidth or something. Rant over - gone to find some caches - hopefully !!!

And yet again this morning, this is doing my head in.

Congratulations Hazel. A trip to the States coming up ?? That should get the numbers up a bit

Been trying to run some PQs etc... Anyone else got the same problem this morning ?

Anyone tried VITO Navigator II ? If so, what's it like for caching with ?

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR To everyone

With a couple more fromm PhilPamandRob and half a dozen from The Great Defenders, we're now up to 120. Wirral Caches Bookmark

Server Error in '/' Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Server Too Busy Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: Server Too Busy Source Error: An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below. Stack Trace: [HttpException (0x80004005): Server Too Busy] System.Web.HttpRuntime.RejectRequestInternal(HttpWorkerRequest wr) +148 Maybe Santa will bring a new set of bigger, faster servers with some code that will handle the volume of traffic. I've been having this problem now for over a week and it's driving me nuts. So much for being a premium member

Server Error in '/' Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Server Too Busy Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: Server Too Busy Source Error: An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below. Stack Trace: [HttpException (0x80004005): Server Too Busy] System.Web.HttpRuntime.RejectRequestInternal(HttpWorkerRequest wr) +148 Maybe Santa will bring them a set of new, bigger, faster servers with some code that will cope with the volume of traffic.

I saw this issue on a PDA the other day - turned out the SD card in the PDA was a "normal" speed card, not a hi speed card. So we tried a comparison, using the same laptop and PDA, the normal speed card said it was going to take 3/4 hour my hi speed card coped with the same transfer in 2 mins !!!!!