GSAK V8 Beta

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Re: GSAK V8 Beta

Post by Happy Chappies » 17 August 11 11:20 am

Permissions? Administrator? What are these things of which you speak?

I'm pretty much running it 'out of the box' with default everything.... The refresh does work now and then. Yesterday it did 4000 caches no problem and even today it has done one or two just fine. But sometimes (either with one cache or many) it gives this error.

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Re: GSAK V8 Beta

Post by caughtatwork » 17 August 11 11:44 am

If you're running Windows, try right click on the GSAK icon and "Run as Administrator". On rare occassions I have had trouble with file permissions and GSAK and this seems to solve it.

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Re: GSAK V8 Beta

Post by Happy Chappies » 17 August 11 11:51 am

caughtatwork wrote:If you're running Windows, try right click on the GSAK icon and "Run as Administrator". On rare occassions I have had trouble with file permissions and GSAK and this seems to solve it.
Just tried - no difference. I'll take it to Clyde in the support forums and see what's up. But maybe after a full restore/rebuild...

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Re: GSAK V8 Beta

Post by crew 153 » 17 August 11 1:48 pm

caughtatwork wrote:If you're running Windows, try right click on the GSAK icon and "Run as Administrator". On rare occassions I have had trouble with file permissions and GSAK and this seems to solve it.
How do I get this to stick? It works when I right click but then next time I have to right clisk again to run as administrator.

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Re: GSAK V8 Beta

Post by caughtatwork » 17 August 11 2:17 pm

Right click, properties, compatability, run as administrator.

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Re: GSAK V8 Beta

Post by crew 153 » 17 August 11 6:17 pm

caughtatwork wrote:Right click, properties, compatability, run as administrator.
Thanks C@W 0I also had to unpin it from the taskbar and repin it.

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Re: GSAK V8 Beta

Post by crew 153 » 17 August 11 6:17 pm

crew 153 wrote:
caughtatwork wrote:Right click, properties, compatability, run as administrator.
Thanks C@W I also had to unpin it from the taskbar and repin it.

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Re: GSAK V8 Beta

Post by gmj3191 » 22 August 11 2:26 pm

Doing my regular GSAK housekeeping, I filtered out all the unfound caches which were flagged as Temp Unavail.
There were about 900 of them in my database.
I ran the Refresh Cache Data menu option using the api.
It refreshed all the cache data for these caches, including the last 10 logs, but only counted it as 14 off my daily 6,000 cache download limit.
Strange, but good. It identified that about 50 of them had been archived, and were candidates for me to delete from my database. The rest were still Temp Unavail.

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Re: GSAK V8 Beta

Post by Zalgariath » 06 October 11 2:34 am

Just a timely reminder that while I still think GSAK8 Beta is awesomness incarnate... I had a major crash last night. I left the putta on to refresh 6000 english caches and while it worked, once it had finished updating, the entire 120,000 waypoint database dissapeared :cry:

Luckily I had backed up 3 days ago and could reload. No idea what caused it. No error message, caches just went.

Save regularly kids :D

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Re: GSAK V8 Beta

Post by caughtatwork » 06 October 11 7:40 am

Beta Beta Beta

Good reminder Zal.

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Re: GSAK V8 Beta

Post by gmj3191 » 06 October 11 8:49 am

I think you're in charge of stress testing Zal.
I've paid my $20 to register it now.

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Re: GSAK V8 Beta

Post by ian-and-penny » 06 October 11 9:13 pm

Zalgariath wrote:Just a timely reminder that while I still think GSAK8 Beta is awesomness incarnate... I had a major crash last night. I left the putta on to refresh 6000 english caches and while it worked, once it had finished updating, the entire 120,000 waypoint database dissapeared :cry:

Luckily I had backed up 3 days ago and could reload. No idea what caused it. No error message, caches just went.

Save regularly kids :D
Have you reported the issue on the GSAK forum?

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Re: GSAK V8 Beta

Post by Zalgariath » 09 October 11 1:28 am

Have been meaning too, but been Lazy... thank I&P ... doing that now ;)

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Re: GSAK V8 Beta

Post by McPhan » 18 October 11 8:28 pm

Before I post in the GSAK forum I thought I'd ask here.

I've been trying to load my GCA finds into my Found database in GSAK. They are simply being imported as unfound caches.

Somebody please tell me what setting I have to change.....

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Re: GSAK V8 Beta

Post by roundcircle » 18 October 11 8:53 pm

I'd guess you need to look at how GSAK identifies "you". I think the recommendation from the GSAK team is to use the GC.com owner id. But GCA doesn't use this number, so you'll need to use your user name, hopefully in an "exact" match, but mine is in a wildcard match to get them all.

Go to Tools, Options, and look on the general tab.

Of course if you have different user names on each site, then that won't work. :-(

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