+mdplayers Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 My paperless caching setup has fallen victim to the advancement of technology at home. I had been using a WinXP laptop and an old Palm PDA with CacheMate installed on it. Now that I've taken the leap to a new laptop with Win7(64bit), I cannot find software to sync the PDA to get caches loaded on it. I do not have a smartphone and I use a Magellan Explorist 210 GPSr. What options for paperless caching are there for me now? Quote Link to comment
+Hemorrhage Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Have you tried gsak? It works great on my 64 bit OS. Quote Link to comment
+chuck4564 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 My paperless caching setup has fallen victim to the advancement of technology at home. I had been using a WinXP laptop and an old Palm PDA with CacheMate installed on it. Now that I've taken the leap to a new laptop with Win7(64bit), I cannot find software to sync the PDA to get caches loaded on it. I do not have a smartphone and I use a Magellan Explorist 210 GPSr. What options for paperless caching are there for me now? I had the same issue when I went to Vista x64. What I found is that I could put the data on the SD card with a card reader, not going through a sync, and I could still function just fine. If the only usage of the PDA is for CacheMate then it works OK. Since that time I have gotten a smart phone and don't use the Palm device anymore. Quote Link to comment
+mpilchfamily Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Have you tried gsak? It works great on my 64 bit OS. He's looking for options to get his old PDA going on the 64-bit OS for paperless caching or another paperless caching option. Depending on which palm the OP has there may not be an SD card slot. So he may have to go with another PDA that has an SD slot, buy a new GPSr with paperless caching or get an iPod Touch. Your best option would be to spend about $120 on the eTrex 10 so you have paperless caching. Its much like that 210 but has paperless caching. Quote Link to comment
+Hemorrhage Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 If a special program is used to recognize and sync the palm with the computer, you could try running that program in compatibility mode by right clicking in it and choosing that option. This has helped me in the past use 32 bit programs on a 64 bit system Quote Link to comment
+Krypton Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I had the same problem when going to Vista 64 bit and I use blue tooth to transfer my data to the Palm Quote Link to comment
AZcachemeister Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Truly too many variables to provide a concise answer. Whether or not your Palm unit has an SD card slot being the main issue. If it does, then you can easily export .pdb files from GSAK, and copy them to the card for your unit. If not, then you have a plethora of possible solutions all the way from getting another Palm unit off EBay for a few bucks, to springing for a new GPSr or smartphone (you can get CacheMate for your ANDROID smartphone ) Quote Link to comment
AZcachemeister Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I had the same problem when going to Vista 64 bit and I use blue tooth to transfer my data to the Palm If it don't have no SD card, it don't have no blue tooth neither! Quote Link to comment
+mdplayers Posted January 12, 2012 Author Share Posted January 12, 2012 I was able to run the hotsync program in compatible mode, now I need to actually connect the palm and try to hotsync. Hubby was asleep and the sounds the palm makes when you sync wakes him up! Thank you for all of your suggestions. I may be on the way to getting this all worked out. Quote Link to comment
+Kenkeknem Sleuth Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I was able to run the hotsync program in compatible mode, now I need to actually connect the palm and try to hotsync. Hubby was asleep and the sounds the palm makes when you sync wakes him up! Thank you for all of your suggestions. I may be on the way to getting this all worked out. Is BlueTooth an option you could explore? Palm and BlueTooth Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I am moving this thread from the Geocaching Topics forum to the GPS and Technology forum. Quote Link to comment
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