+LarryGC Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 I don't know which entry is causing this, but apparently one of them. I go to Upload to the GPS, select the file, say yes to replace, and CRASH This happened when I put in symbols that it didn't like, in the Hint box. I added one and deleted it when it started crashing and now it don't work any more. I can't do anything with it, it just keeps crashing. Does the Swiss Army Knife replace this POS program? Quote Link to comment
+Hard Oiler Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 I gave up using the geocache manager when GSAK started supporting uploading of gs files. Works perfectly. If Magellan had any sense they'd cut a deal with Clyde to bundle GSAK with the Explorist and dump the geocache manager. Quote Link to comment
+embra Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 GSAK works great; Clyde and Robert (the GPSBabel czar) have gone to some lengths to screen out those characters that can be troublesome to our electronic minions. Quote Link to comment
+LarryGC Posted September 17, 2005 Author Share Posted September 17, 2005 does GSAK also control the POI files? When I scroll down POI's, I see sometimes the icons change. It's getting VERY frustrating Quote Link to comment
robertlipe Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 Offhand, I can't think of anyone that's recommended the Geocache Manager over any combination of GSAK and GPSBabel, but I'm not totally unbiased. :-) In fact, Olaf and I got ambitious with GPSBabel since the last version and it will now even "dumb down" UTF8 characters when sending them to your unit or to a format that can't handle it. For example, if I take GC7FA4 and delete the word "points" from the name just so it'll fit and pass that through GPSBabel, the cache will be named "geodesiques du Quebc" The UTF-8 'e' characters are now gracefully decayed down to the visually closest character - in GPSBabel until now, they'd have just been thrown away. Which sould like it's still smarter than what GM does...) Quote Link to comment
robertlipe Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 does GSAK also control the POI files? When I scroll down POI's, I see sometimes the icons change. It's getting VERY frustrating GPSBabel (and thus GSAK) will do both UPT and GS files for your Explorist. The same tradeoffs apply. 500 (200 with comments) editable in a UPT or 200 uneditable geocache-specific points in a GS. The icon thing when scrolling is a firmware bug in teh unit. Complain to Magellan. Quote Link to comment
+LarryGC Posted September 17, 2005 Author Share Posted September 17, 2005 seems like after the 16th POI the icon of whatever is 16th in the click stays with each one after. I guess that's an explorist firmware problem. this has been one frustrating week with technology Quote Link to comment
+LarryGC Posted September 17, 2005 Author Share Posted September 17, 2005 GPSBabel and GSAK are 2 different programs? I'm not fam with either... which one is for geocaching? Quote Link to comment
+LarryGC Posted September 17, 2005 Author Share Posted September 17, 2005 Thanks for all your help. I take it GSAK uses GPSBabel, so I only need to get GSAK to get started. Quote Link to comment
+embra Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 That's right; sounds like you figured it out. Quote Link to comment
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