[Xastir] Map Chooser Won't Reindex All Maps

[Keith Kaiser]

Curt, and All
 I did exactly as you said here with the help of Dan Brown just minutes ago 
and it worked. Xastir is now loading my maps as it should, I did have to do 
all the defaults again but that was a minor thing to getting the mapping 
working. Thanks for all your help and Dan's in getting this issue resolved.



On 6/2/05, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote: 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Keith Kaiser wrote:
> 
> > No matter how many times I tell Xastir to Reindex All Maps (RAM) it does
> > not work. I have emptied the maps folder and put just one map in it, in 
> a
> > GIS folder. After doing a RAM, the Map Chooser shows various files 
> including
> > a GPS folder and an Online folder both of which have maps showing in 
> them
> > that do not exist anywhere on my machine
> 
> > Any idea guys?
> 
> I suspect you'll get several ideas. Here's another of mine:
> 
> a) Shut down Xastir
> b) "cd ~/.xastir/config"
> c) "rm selected_maps.sys map_index.sys"
> d) Start Xastir. If it doesn't reindex maps on its own (I think
> it should in that case), do a manual reindex.
> 
> If that doesn't get rid of them, nothing will. "map_index.sys" is
> where Xastir keeps the important fast-lookup info about each map,
> such as location, map extents, map layer, etc. If that file is
> missing Xastir will create a fresh index from scratch.
> 
> Yet another trick, might help some people with other problems: If
> Xastir is acting really goofy and you want to test Xastir with
> default/clean config files, just like when you started Xastir for
> the first time, do this:
> 
> a) Shut down Xastir.
> b) "cd" (makes sure you're in your home directory)
> c) "mv .xastir .xastir-save"
> d) Start Xastir. It will see that it's user config directory is
> missing entirely and will create a new "~/.xastir" directory,
> populating it with default config files.
> 
> Later you can:
> 
> Shut down Xastir
> "cd"
> "rm -rf .xastir"
> "mv .xastir-save .xastir"
> Start Xastir
> 
> in order to restore the original config directory. By the way, be
> just a bit careful with that "rm -rf" command, it's extremely
> powerful and can remove every file on your system. As shown above
> it will remove the "~/.xastir" directory and all files/directories
> beneath that. Imagine doing it from the root directory...
> 
> --
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