Hi Roger

My error!!! The file is called iii.idx, not gcvs.idx!

That's why you couldn't find it ;)

My fault.

Try it again with deleting iii.idx, probably just deleting iii.idx now
and re-running Guide as is, if you've already reupgraded and added the
fiddled with iii.dat, should suffice.

Again, don't hold your breath.

This is assuming you've got a iii.idx. After you've deleted iii.idx
and relaunched Guide, it might be interesting to see if it makes a new
iii.idx or not, as iii.idx does not appear to be part of the upgrade
zip, so must be autogenerated.

I know that asteroid problem, which still exists at base even though
there's an mpcorb work around, is because Guide doesn't regenerate the
index file at new epochs for some reason.

[Incidentally, I'm running basic Win2k, except IE etc are uninstalled
(though still there at core due to gatesian megalomania)]

Cheers

John

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "Roger Pickard" <rdp@...> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
> Sadly, it made no difference whatsoever.
> Interestingly though, I don't have the file gcvs.idx on my machine!
> Cheers,
> Roger
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "duble.stars" <duble.stars@...>
> To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:27 PM
> Subject: [guide-user] iii.dat reformatted in yahoo files
>
>
> >
> > alright, as I seem to have a fixation with it being the iii.dat
> file,
> > here's a little test if you want to try it
> >
> > in http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/guide-user/files/ I've put
> > iii.zip, which is a zipped version of iii.dat messed about with a
> > little bit. You'll have to log in to your yahoo account to get at
> > that, likely.
> >
> > Download it, unzip it. Go to your Guide directory and delete
> iii.dat
> > that is there and delete gcvs.idx that is there (incidentally, make
> > sure Guide is not running when you do this).
> >
> > Upgrade to the test version of Guide again, even if you upgraded
> once
> > the other day, reupgrade.
> >
> > Copy this fiddled with iii.dat over to the Guide directory, run the
> > new upgraded Guide, test on a name list 77 or 78 object that is in
> one
> > of the early alphabet constellations, _not_ Vulpecula.
> >
> > Of course, you could've already been testing with the old gcvs.tdf
> > still likely on your hard drives, using GO TO TDF, to see if this
> read
> > the latest iii.dat properly, as a check.
> >
> > It'll probably make no difference but give it a try, but I've got
> this
> > fixation going that the iii.dat file needs to be thoroughly removed
> > from suspicion, as they don't always do their data files that
> cleanly.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > John
> >
> > PS I'll delete iii.zip in a day or two, no matter what the result,
> as
> > it only takes up the limited space in Guide-user group's filespace
> >
> >
> >
> >
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