Hi Clay,

I'm not sure if this is what you want, but duplicate objects frequently
show up in in Guide as double X's.
I'm not sure if this happens with Soft02, but certainly with 'Update
comets and Asteroids it does.
The way to get rid of those is to edit 'Comets.dat', wipe out all of the
data in that file, and importantly the top line should say 0.
Then only data from either MPCorb or the standalone asteroid data base
will be displayed.
Then once you update through 'Update comets and asteroids', that new
data is showed.

Hope this helps.

Best Regards

Alan

In message <001001c99597$8dd003b0$4301a8c0@your727a0a4e7c>, P. Clay
Sherrod <drclay@...> writes

>
> Hello Bill and others....
> Once again, my "Comet Table" has become a mess of duplicates, old
> nomenclature, and discarded comets.
> I use the frequent updates "Observable Comets" for Guide 8 to
> update about
> every 2-3 days for the latest comets and typically this works fine.
> Only,
> the old designations remain when comets are changed to periodic,
> etc.
>
> I now have at least 30 duplicates, comets that are long gone and
> not
> observable and many other duplicate and incorrect entries.
> In addition, the new listings for Observable Comets for Guide 8
> (and others)
> NOW finally shows comet P33/Daniel. However, when adding the new
> database
> via "EXTRAS/Add MPC Comets..../Add MPC Comets [link], as we have
> done for
> years, Comet Daniel does NOT show up on GO TO Comets nor on the
> Comet Tables
> list....it does show up in the Edit Comets file however.
>
> I manually entered it and can locate it that way via coordinates,
> but that
> is not the way Guide is supposed to function.
>
> As I have always done, I am using the file:
> http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/Soft02Cmt.txt
> which many
> others use to frequently update.
>
> About a year ago Bill told us how to clear out the corrupt data
> base and add
> a fresh set of comet data that corresponds to the latest data set
> from MPC.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) how can I purge all of the incorrect comet database and
> re-establish ONLY
> those listed on the newest MPC database so that the comet entries
> will be
> correct?
>
> 2) is there any way possible to "delete existing entries" prior to
> each
> update from the aforementioned MPC site so that ONLY THE LATEST
> data is
> showing?
>
> Either I am doing something wrong, and have been for the past 10
> years with
> Guide, or there simply needs to be a better way of keeping these
> database
> entries current and clean.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>

Alan Cahill (J94)
Abbeydale Observatory,
Gloucester.
UK
http://mountabbeydale.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk