Gsak Question (request For Suggestions)

[+shakespeareguru]

Okay, granted I've only gotten 20 finds under my belt, but I'm curious as to how you veterans do this. I use a Garmin eTrex Legend (the blue one - 8mb) and I paperless cache with my Dell Axim running GPX Sonar (although I've recently rediscovered CacheMate for the PocketPC). However, I still get all 19 of my finds listed in my GSAK database which, in turn, find their way to my GPSr and my PDA. So, here's my question:

 

How do you keep the logs and finds that you have in GSAK and keep them off your GPSr and PDA after you've found them?

 

I see that GSAK has an "archive" function, but it doesn't seem to do anything (yet). I know there are also filters that can be used with GSAK. Am I on the right track here?

 

Any help will be much appreciated!

[+jon & miki]

Filters are your friend. Whenever you export from GSAK, only the caches included in the current filter are sent out. So, create a new filter that just includes available caches you have not found and that have received a GPX update during the last 10 days (or whatever period suits your pocket query schedule). Save that filter and invoke it just before you export and you're good to go.

 

Best place for getting GSAK help is on the GSAK forums at www.gsak.net. I've found that there are lots of helpful folks there who can answer almost any question I've got very quickly.

[+Lasagna]

Yep ... filters ... when you export to Cachemate, GSAK will only export what you have selected in your filter. Typically the filter shows all caches. You can setup a custom filter, or for your specific requirements, you may find the builtin ones sufficient.

 

Try double-clicking on the "white" box with a number it in in the bottom right of the GSAK screen (four colored boxes are there white, yellow, green, and red).

 

If you double-click on the white box, it will set a filter showing only the caches which have not been "found" by you (provided you defined to GSAK "who" you are). The yellow box has the number of caches you found (double clicking it shows on the caches you found), Green are those owned by you, and red are archived (that GSAK has somehow found out are archived).

[+Z_Statman]

You might also jump over to the GSAK forum at

 

GSAK

[+shakespeareguru]

Thanks for all the input! This gives me a great start. I'm going to post the same question on the GSAK board. I've just started playing around with pocket queries and I understand how the filters can help me do what I need it to do.

 

Thanks again!

[+Jhwk]

Maybe I'm being too simple, but I just pull down the filter list and click DNF. This clears all of the found caches from the list and then I slice and dice from there, depending on if I'm sending them to my Palm (all) or my GPSr (200 cache per file limit).

 

Guess you can tell which GPSr I run with...

 

Ah, a helpful post for my 500th.

 

Now back to my snide yet still relevant posts.

[+Miragee]

This little rudimentary GSAK tutorial might be helpful.

[+Groovy Cachin' Dude!]

Yep ... filters ... when you export to Cachemate, GSAK will only export what you have selected in your filter. Typically the filter shows all caches. You can setup a custom filter, or for your specific requirements, you may find the builtin ones sufficient.

 

Try double-clicking on the "white" box with a number it in in the bottom right of the GSAK screen (four colored boxes are there white, yellow, green, and red).

 

If you double-click on the white box, it will set a filter showing only the caches which have not been "found" by you (provided you defined to GSAK "who" you are). The yellow box has the number of caches you found (double clicking it shows on the caches you found), Green are those owned by you, and red are archived (that GSAK has somehow found out are archived).

 

Great tip Lasagna! I didn't know about that one...typically I use a filter too. One other thing you may do is to create separate databases. Create one database for Found and one for Unfound. After you find a cache, click the found button (mine is a visible column along with the date found) in your Unfound DB. Then you can filter on your recently found caches and move these waypoints to your found DB. Did you follow that? It makes it really easy to keep a running tally of your cache finds without having to run multiple PQ if you have more than 500 finds. Good luck.

[+jon & miki]

Unless you clear your database with every download, you will wind up with caches that appear to be active but are actually archived. This is a side effect of a pocket query feature that does not include archived caches in the file. When a cache is archived, GSAK never knows about it since the cache description isn't included in the query.

 

The easiest way I know to bypass the problem is to include a term in your filter that omits caches that haven't been updated since your last pocket query. I use 10 days since I update weekly and wanted a few days of slack in case I didn't pick up my queries on time.