+SaltyDog20 Posted January 15 Posted January 15 Hello all, I use to own a GPSMAP 64st and used GSAK to load the unit with my geocache data with around 14,000 caches. With Groundspeak's limited bandwith for downloading data, and GSAK practically dead, how can I go about downloading 10,000+ caches and converting all those GPX files into a GGZ? I would be loading the GGZ into my 67i but I've never seen any discussion on how to get the proverbial buttload of caches into a GGZ before. Quote
+HHL Posted January 15 Posted January 15 5 hours ago, SaltyDog20 said: how can I go about downloading 10,000+ caches and converting all those GPX files into a GGZ? You may download the caches on different days or additionally use PQs (which gives you an additional 10,000 caches per day). In GSAK: Use the Gamin Export macro. It saves all your caches as a GGZ file and the belonging children as Pois. Hans Quote
+SaltyDog20 Posted January 20 Author Posted January 20 On 1/15/2025 at 3:36 AM, HHL said: You may download the caches on different days or additionally use PQs (which gives you an additional 10,000 caches per day). In GSAK: Use the Gamin Export macro. It saves all your caches as a GGZ file and the belonging children as Pois. Hans Is there a function or macro in GSAK where I can use the Get Geocaches with it ignoring what is already in the database? It's been a few years and I'm not as well versed in using GSAK as I used to be. I might go about using the PQ method. Quote
+StefandD Posted January 21 Posted January 21 Take a look at The CW_RegionManager macro: https://gsak.net/board/index.php?s=983263a478d49b0cafc42da75c74505e&showtopic=36053&st=20&#entry283460 More info about this macro: https://gsak.net/board/index.php?act=ST&f=7&t=36050 https://gsak.net/board/index.php?act=ST&f=7&t=36166 Quote
+ecanderson Posted January 25 Posted January 25 On 1/20/2025 at 10:26 AM, SaltyDog20 said: Is there a function or macro in GSAK where I can use the Get Geocaches with it ignoring what is already in the database? It's been a few years and I'm not as well versed in using GSAK as I used to be. I might go about using the PQ method. Not 100% sure I'm clear on your objective, but ... If you are trying to load caches from gc.com into an existing database in GSAK, and do not want to overwrite any existing cache data in that database in the process... Just download your load from gc.com to a different database in GSAK, then use GSAK's Database - Move/Copy Waypoints - and where it asks "If waypoint already exists in the destination database?" select "Ignore". If the GC code already exists in your old database, it won't copy the new data for that GC there from the new database. 1 Quote
robertlipe Posted January 27 Posted January 27 Moderator Note: This is on super thin ice for being on topic for this forum. GSAK tech support should go to their forums, not here. This is kind of borderline, so I won't lock it, but please continue any remaining macro discussion at https://gsak.net/board/ Quote
+ecanderson Posted January 30 Posted January 30 @robertlipe Surprised to see the strong possibility of having a discussion of this sort shuttled off-site to GSAK's site. Is there something different about GSAK? How-to questions related to other caching apps are frequently discussed in the "API" forum here. https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index.php?/forum/140-authorized-developer-applications-api/ Would have instead expected that this thread be moved from "GPS Technology and Devices" to "Authorized Developer applications (API)". Are their other apps whose how-to questions aren't to be discussed here as well? How to tell which ones? 1 Quote
robertlipe Posted January 31 Posted January 31 In Moderator voice (I both contribute to this group and I -usually lightly- moderate it.) This site's owners have never wanted this resource to be used as the tech support forums (or anything else) of other vendors. This isn't new and it's just straight up business. They pay the bills. Clearly, this group has always been a bit inherently fuzzy. It's not like half our traffic hasn't always been Garmin tech support. This is why I'm nudging and not swinging a moderator hammer. When the conversation was (also OT here) yet another "how do I download too many PQs" question, it was below my threshold of shunting to the "how do I use pocket queries" group. When it became minutiae of the macros of a specific program, it seemed worth a reminder to not continue further in that direction. The highest concentration of gsak expert volunteers remains their own forum. It's nothing unique to GSAK and I'm plenty aware of the GSAK situation and their history - I helped make it so, after all. If the app discussed were Delorme or ExpertGPS or iPAQ Sync or even GPSBabel and went from answering "can you recommend a program to do it?" to lengthy details of "how", there would be the same nudge. There are steps beyond nudging, but I'd rather be the Good Cop than the Bad Cop - that's no fun for anyone. So, please just help redirect support traffic to vendor forums. You've been here a long time and have been a long time positive influence. Nobody here is deserving the wet rubber hose and I don't want to sound like a crazy parent threatening to turn the bus around. It's not a huge deal. I'm just asking everyone's help to steer extended discussion of advanced features of apps toward the more appropriate resources of those vendors. I also fully recognize that "vendor" sounds like the wrong term in GSAK's case, but the team that's keeping that bus driving 88 has years of experience with it and has done a cracker job of supporting it before and after the apps essential freeze. I'm trying to say the rules here is the same for Fizzymagics calculator as they are for Streets and Trips. 1 Quote
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