Hello;

It is best to enter and put this guide.dat UCAC4_PATH=c:\guide9\ucac4 provided you have the catalog in a folder called ucac4 within guide9.
If your hard drive is called otherwise just change that. D: \ E: \ etc

greetings;

J.Tapioles

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Arild Moland <astralscooter@...> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I haven't got the data set, but tried hitting Alt-J to add the UCAC4_PATH
> to see where it is stored in the Guide config (after all, how hard can this
> thing really be?), and I found this:
>
> 1) I pressed Alt-J and entered UCAC4_PATH=<some path>
> 2) I sorted the files in my Guide folder so which had changed, and found a
> few
> 3) I found that there was a UCAC4_PATH entry in guide.dat
> 4) I ALSO found that there already was a line in guide.dat reading
> "DLG_3025=UCAC4_PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\guide9\UCAC4" (well, not sure
> if it was there before or after)
>
> This line is wrong, I don't know what the correct value for DLG_3025 should
> be, but if you have any trouble with UCAC4_PATH, open guide.dat (in
> Notepad++ or another decent text editor), and veryify that your
>
> UCAC4_PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\guide9\UCAC4
>
> entry is on a separate line, and not messed up with other settings.
>
> Hope this helps! It has been bugging me watching all the group traffic on
> this issue, but it seems like Guide is messing up guide.dat under certain
> circumstances when people press Alt-J to enter the UCAC4_PATH.
>
> Arild :)
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Pierre Laporte
> <solideogloria@...>wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Hi Bern
> >
> > I miss type the Alt-J command.....
> >
> > No more success with Alt-J command UCAC4_PATH=E:\UCAC4..........
> >
> >
> > Pierre Laporte
> >
> > _____
> >
> > De : guide-user@yahoogroups.com [mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com] De la
> > part de Bernd Brinkmann
> > Envoyé : 15 avril 2013 08:09
> > À : guide-user@yahoogroups.com
> > Objet : Re: [guide-user] Re: UCAC-4 Display HELP please........
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > your path is wrong when hitting Alt J. It has to be
> > UCAC4_PATH=E:\UCAC4
> >
> > > I follow all these instructions and I never get access to the UCAC4 data
> > > with GUIDE 9.0.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I use the 26 Feb 2013 version.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > My UCAC4 data are on external hard drive. These data have been dowloaded
> > > and I have the following file structure :
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > E:\UCAC4\ z001.bin to z900.bin
> > >
> > > u4b (empty)
> > >
> > > u4i : id-tyc.bin ; index5.bin ;
> > > indext.bin ; u4index.unf ; zone_stats
> > >
> > > u4index.unf : u4index.unf
> > >
> > > zone_stats : zone_stats
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Is this structure OK to get UCAC4 read by GUIDE 9.0 ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The UCAC-4 appears when I use Extras | Toggle users datasets...
> > >
> > > I set it to ON
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I use Alt-J with "UCAC4_PATH=c:\ucac4"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > After that, I zoom to level10 and all star that I click on show the 3UCAC
> > > data....I never get the 4UCAC data......
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > What is wrong in my setting ????????????
> >
> > Clear skies
> > Bernd
> >
> > Bernd Brinkmann
> >
> > Sternwarte Herne, MPC code A18
> > Herne, Germany
> >
> > e-mail: info@... <mailto:info%40sternwarte-herne.de>
> > http://www.sternwarte-herne.de
> >
> >
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