downloading gpx files [closed]

Aushiker · Post by **Aushiker** » 05 February 05 5:59 pm

Hi

Just went to download the gpx file for WA using Opera 7.54 and it comes up for me in the download box as a XML file, rather than a gpx file which the link is.

Yet to download anyway and try.

Andrew

riblit · Post by **riblit** » 05 February 05 11:28 pm

Aushiker wrote:Hi

Just went to download the gpx file for WA using Opera 7.54 and it comes up for me in the download box as a XML file, rather than a gpx file which the link is.

Yet to download anyway and try.

Andrew

It will still work, you might have to tell Opera to open with GSAK if you want to open rather than download and then open.

Aushiker · Post by **Aushiker** » 06 February 05 12:48 pm

riblit wrote:It will still work, you might have to tell Opera to open with GSAK if you want to open rather than download and then open.

Okay, thanks for that. I actually downloaded, in the end, in Firefox okay, but will look at changing Opera's handling.

Thanks
Andrew

Gunn Parker · Post by **Gunn Parker** » 06 February 05 2:49 pm

I had the same trouble Andrew with Opera but I just renamed the file "WA.gpx" before saving and all was fine.

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 29 April 05 9:09 am

is this still an issue?

Gunn Parker · Post by **Gunn Parker** » 29 April 05 11:24 am

I downloaded one yesterday and it came done as an xml file, so I renamed it .gpx and once it was on my hard drive the file was called, wa.xml.gpx, so I renamed it again to wa.gpx and it worked fine after that.

riblit · Post by **riblit** » 29 April 05 6:02 pm

Gunn Parker wrote:I downloaded one yesterday and it came done as an xml file, so I renamed it .gpx and once it was on my hard drive the file was called, wa.xml.gpx, so I renamed it again to wa.gpx and it worked fine after that.

So you are hiding extensions?<br /> windows does *try* and be helpful

Aushiker · Post by **Aushiker** » 03 May 05 12:46 am

riblit wrote:
Gunn Parker wrote:I downloaded one yesterday and it came done as an xml file, so I renamed it .gpx and once it was on my hard drive the file was called, wa.xml.gpx, so I renamed it again to wa.gpx and it worked fine after that.
So you are hiding extensions?<br /> windows does *try* and be helpful

I get the same problem and no I don't hide the extensions but I do use Opera 8. It still managed to load into GSAK okay...

Andrew

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 07 October 05 8:47 am

we've re-written most of that code
is this still a problem?

Aushiker · Post by **Aushiker** » 07 October 05 11:46 am

ideology wrote:we've re-written most of that code
is this still a problem?

Thanks for rewriting the code, but I can't really answer you now in terms of Opera as I have switched to Firefox. That said, in Firefox it works just fine thankyou.

Andrew