Well, it's obviously an OS thing, especially if you can access VizieR from one machine and not t'other whilst using the same Guide config.

I also once lost the ability to do vizier downloads from Guide, simply by following some instructions I'd found for _total_ removal of IE and outlook from my system (uninstalling IE leaves tons of MScrap behind still). Turned out Guide used an MS OS level way of getting the data or something, a dll or summat, so I'd to put that stuff back.

So I'd say check your firewalls, permissions therein for various programs and see if Guide 8 is specifically allowed, and if not make it so, and als check in your virus protection suites etc, etc, coz a lot of this security stuff defaults to not allowing stuff and you've to allow it, but of course most folk don't understand that stuff, that's why they have the commercial applications looking after it for them.

Roger's got it working both ways (toolbar and menu) fine, you've got it working one system, but not t'other.

However, having said that, Dr Clay's telled me he can download CMC14 data from VizieR via Guide 8, and I've checked the Harvard and Cambridge VizieR servers and they already have I/315 (UCAC3) up and running just like at Strasbourg, so who knows what gives?

Cheers

John

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "trvsfn" <trvsfn@...> wrote:
>
> I also cannot connect or better: I use two computers with the same configuration of the GUIDE folder, one works fine the other isn't able to connect to VizieR.
> Cheers, Stefano
> Stefano TREVISAN
> MPC B38 Santa Mama
>
> --- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "P. Clay Sherrod" <drclay@> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks....still struggling, but John has checked over all my rewritten files and all are
> > okay....simply cannot connect.
> >
> > Clay
> > _____
> > Dr. P. Clay Sherrod
> > Arkansas Sky Observatories
> > MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South
> > MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
> > MPC H43 - Conway West
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Roger Pickard" <roger.pickard@>
> > To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 5:59 AM
> > Subject: Re: [guide-user] Re: UCAC3 from VizieR in Guide 8 - a howto
> >
> >
> > > Hi Clay,
> > >
> > > I've had this problem with .tdf's only being saved as .txt files. One
> > > way around it is to _rename_ the file to .tdf. That should work.
> > >
> > > Roger
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "ucac3temp" <ucac3temp@>
> > > To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 12:18 AM
> > > Subject: [guide-user] Re: UCAC3 from VizieR in Guide 8 - a howto
> > >
> > >
> > >> --- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "P. Clay Sherrod" <drclay@>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Again, thanks....
> > >>> I have doubled checked everything, and all appears to be installed
> > >>> and written correctly
> > >>> as you described. The only issue that I can see that does not
> > >>> appear right is the .tdf
> > >>> file, which I copied into a .txt text editing file as instructed.
> > >>> however, when I save it
> > >>> to file, it continues to SAVE as a .txt file, not a .tdf file, even
> > >>> if I place the .tdf
> > >>> extension on the copy I am attempting to save.
> > >>>
> > >>> Something is amiss in the way I am attempting to write this per
> > >>> your
> > >>> instructions....please understand that I am absolutely sure your
> > >>> instructions are
> > >>> valid....this is USER ERROR plain and simple.
> > >>>
> > >>> Any help is appreciated. I could send you the three files that I
> > >>> constructed if that
> > >>> helps....thanks much.
> > >>
> > >> Okay, I may have missed a coupla basics out.
> > >>
> > >> No data will show until you've pressed the download button.
> > >>
> > >> There's probably a limit in Guide to stop you downloading too wide a
> > >> field. VizieR certainly won't accept anything over ten degrees.
> > >>
> > >> So, start Guide. Close it down and restart, that's often a good
> > >> idea when changing things in Guide. Start Guide, zoom into a LEVEL
> > >> where the field width is about one degree or less, don't want to
> > >> download too much. Press the UCAC3 button on the toolbar at top of
> > >> Guide.
> > >>
> > >> Download dialogue should pop up.
> > >>
> > >> When it's complete start right clicking on likely looking stars and
> > >> press More Info until one has a name starting "3UCAC".
> > >>
> > >> You may just be missing this point. If you've got UCAC2 installed
> > >> you'll already have a star of very similar magnitude and almost the
> > >> exact same position already plotted up in Guide 8, so you've to keep
> > >> clicking the NEXT button to move on to the next dataset.
> > >>
> > >> ie the star is there, but you ain't seeing it because it is hidden
> > >> by others.
> > >>
> > >> If you got to the yahoo files I've also included a zip file, you can
> > >> download that as a zip file and take the .tdf from it, I'll try and
> > >> send you a copy separately via attachment too. This should stop
> > >> this .txt problem or any cut and paste issue.
> > >>
> > >> Again, after that, if it still doesn't work, as it seems Bill's
> > >> already working on this, better to wait for his more straightforward
> > >> updates.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers
> > >>
> > >> John
> > >>
> > >>
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