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[Gato Verde]

Thiomas,

That seems to have done the trick. Thanks!

I am trying to send the additional file but can't find the "chartlist.dat.old". Where should it be located?

Todd Shuster

[cagney]

Todd

Great, I'm happy this helped you.
Well, the file is in a hidden directory in your home folder.
I'm using a mixture of Gnome and Kde and on the Dolphin file manager
the key strokes "Alt" + "." reveals all the hidden files and directories. These all start with a "." . Find the ".opencpn" directory and there is your file.
Alternatively, here is a command that moves the file to be visible in your home directory and gives it the file-extension ".doc", ready to be uploaded to this forum.

mv /home/todd/.opencpn/chartlist.dat.old /home/todd/chartlist.dat.old.doc

Thomas

[Gato Verde]

Thomas

Here is the file you requested.

Thanks

Todd

[Gato Verde]

I also have an issue with my new primary helm computer opencpn. I am running 32 bit Ubuntu 10.10 on a samsung d210 netbook with a pixel qi transreflective display.

When I try to open ENC charts there are issues. When I pass the cursor over the green bar at the bottom of the screen, the chart info & preview appear, when I click on it to open the chart the background is grey with lines in the background. BSB charts seem to be working fine.

On both computers there are also random red lines in the blue (BSB) chart bars on the bottom of the screen, just a cosmetic issue, i think.

Todd

[bdbcat]

Gato Verde....

If you can post your logfile, we can take a look. Sounds like you are failing to find the S52PLIB files....

Dave

[Gato Verde]

I looked at the .log file and it didn't appear to be logging as i had just shut down a session and the newest session in the .log was from March. Hmmm... so I un-installed and re-installed opened the program switched through a few charts both vector & raster moved the boat then shut down. when I checked the .log it was the same as before showing 2 sessions from march 27 & 29??? The log is very large and I can't attach the whole thing so here is a piece of it.

there may have been a short time when the ENC's were working and I wonder if this was the session when it did...

12:24:34 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA18M/US5WA18M.000
12:24:34 AM: Error Reading ENC .TXT file: /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA18M/US000520.TXT
12:24:34 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US1WC01M/US1WC01M.000
12:24:34 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA15M/US5WA15M.000
12:24:34 AM: Error Reading ENC .TXT file: /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA15M/US000657.TXT
12:24:34 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA24M/US5WA24M.000
12:24:34 AM: Error Reading ENC .TXT file: /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA24M/US5WA24E.TXT
12:24:34 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA33M/US5WA33M.000
12:24:34 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA45M/US5WA45M.000
12:24:34 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US2WC12M/US2WC12M.000
12:24:34 AM: Error Reading ENC .TXT file: /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US2WC12M/US002201.TXT
12:24:34 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA14M/US5WA14M.000
12:24:34 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA40M/US5WA40M.000
12:24:34 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA16M/US5WA16M.000
12:24:35 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA41M/US5WA41M.000
12:24:35 AM: Error Reading ENC .TXT file: /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA41M/US5WA41E.TXT
12:24:35 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US1WC08M/US1WC08M.000
12:24:35 AM: Error Reading ENC .TXT file: /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US1WC08M/US002147.TXT
12:24:35 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA23M/US5WA23M.000
12:24:35 AM: Error Reading ENC .TXT file: /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA23M/US002364.TXT
12:24:35 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA31M/US5WA31M.000
12:24:35 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA26M/US5WA26M.000
12:24:35 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US4WA10M/US4WA10M.000
12:24:35 AM: Error Reading ENC .TXT file: /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US4WA10M/US4WA10E.TXT
12:24:35 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA22M/US5WA22M.000
12:24:35 AM: Loading chart data for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA29M/US5WA29M.000
12:24:35 AM: Searching directory: /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT for *.s57
12:24:35 AM: Searching directory: /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT for 00300000.a
12:24:36 AM: MemoryStatus: mem_total: 2050480 kb, mem_initial: 326524 kb
12:24:36 AM: GPS Watchdog Timeout is: 6 sec.
12:24:36 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18430/18430_1.KAP
12:24:40 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18421/18421_1.KAP
12:24:40 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA40M/US5WA40M.000
12:24:41 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA40M/US5WA40M.000
12:24:41 AM: Building SENC file for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA40M/US5WA40M.000 to /home/user/.opencpn/SENC/US5WA40M.S57
12:25:27 AM: LOGBOOK: 2011-03-29 07:25:27 UTC DR Lat 39.75000 Lon 179.53830
12:25:53 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA45M/US5WA45M.000
12:25:53 AM: Building SENC file for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA45M/US5WA45M.000 to /home/user/.opencpn/SENC/US5WA45M.S57
12:29:16 AM: PlugInManager: Initializing PlugIn: /usr/local/share/opencpn/plugins/libgrib_pi.so
12:29:20 AM: No change detected on directory /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT
12:29:20 AM: No change detected on directory /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT
12:29:20 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/530/530_1.KAP
12:29:27 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US1WC01M/US1WC01M.000
12:29:29 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/501/501_1.KAP
12:29:30 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US2WC12M/US2WC12M.000
12:29:31 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18007/18007_1.KAP
12:29:32 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18003/18003_1.KAP
12:29:34 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US3WA02M/US3WA02M.000
12:29:34 AM: Building SENC file for /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US3WA02M/US3WA02M.000 to /home/user/.opencpn/SENC/US3WA02M.S57
12:29:34 AM: Error Reading ENC .TXT file: /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US3WA02M/US001490.TXT
12:29:34 AM: Error Reading ENC .TXT file: /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US3WA02M/US3WA02E.TXT
12:30:00 AM: LOGBOOK: 2011-03-29 07:30:00 UTC DR Lat 39.75000 Lon 179.53830
12:30:22 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18400/18400_1.KAP
12:30:23 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18423/18423_1.KAP
12:30:25 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18421/18421_1.KAP
12:30:25 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA45M/US5WA45M.000
12:30:55 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18423/18423_5.KAP
12:30:58 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18424/18424_1.KAP
12:30:59 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18424/18424_2.KAP
12:37:23 AM: No change detected on directory /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT
12:37:23 AM: No change detected on directory /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT
12:37:24 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18424/18424_1.KAP
12:37:24 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18421/18421_1.KAP
12:37:24 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18400/18400_1.KAP
12:37:24 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18003/18003_1.KAP
12:37:25 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18007/18007_1.KAP
12:37:25 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/501/501_1.KAP
12:37:25 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/530/530_1.KAP
12:37:29 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US1WC01M/US1WC01M.000
12:37:29 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US5WA45M/US5WA45M.000
12:37:30 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US3WA02M/US3WA02M.000
12:37:31 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US2WC12M/US2WC12M.000
12:37:31 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/ENC_ROOT/US1WC07M/US1WC07M.000
12:37:37 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18423/18423_1.KAP
12:37:50 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18423/18423_5.KAP
12:37:56 AM: Initializing Chart /home/user/Desktop/Navigation/Charts/BSB_ROOT/18424/18424_2.KAP
01:00:00 AM: LOGBOOK: 2011-03-29 08:00:00 UTC DR Lat 48.72240 Lon -122.51273
01:29:22 AM: PlugInManager: Deactivating PlugIn: /usr/local/share/opencpn/plugins/libdashboard_pi.so
01:29:22 AM: PlugInManager: Deactivating PlugIn: /usr/local/share/opencpn/plugins/libgrib_pi.so
01:29:22 AM: opencpn::MyFrame exiting cleanly.
01:29:22 AM: PlugInManager: UnLoading PlugIn: /usr/local/share/opencpn/plugins/libdashboard_pi.so
01:29:22 AM: PlugInManager: UnLoading PlugIn: /usr/local/share/opencpn/plugins/libgrib_pi.so
01:29:22 AM: LOGBOOK: 2011-03-29 08:29:22 UTC OFF: Lat 48.72240 Lon -122.51273
01:29:22 AM: opencpn::MyApp exiting cleanly...

[HappySeagull]

What does this mean?(from the OpenCPN log on Windows XP)
11:08:56: 2011-04-17
11:08:56: -------Starting opencpn-------
11:08:56: Version 2.4.412 Build 2011-04-12
11:08:56: SData_Locn is C:\Program Files\OpenCPN\
11:08:57: Error: Image file is not of type 9.

and also in the previous Beta..

08:42:09: 2011-04-13
08:42:09: -------Starting opencpn-------
08:42:09: Version 2.4.324 Build 2011-03-24
08:42:09: SData_Locn is C:\Program Files\OpenCPN\
08:42:10: Error: Image file is not of type 9.

etc..everything is running really well but I'm curious incase I'm missing something.

[idpnd]

Hello, just wondering what time zone the currents are in, is it whatever the computer's on? Thanks

[cagney]

Originally Posted by idpnd

Hello, just wondering what time zone the currents are in, is it whatever the computer's on? Thanks

Notice the " Z - 07:00". The time zone is given like this for each station, except that a lot of acronyms for the US time zones are used like "EDT".

Thomas

[fgd3]

Originally Posted by cagney

Attachment 26322

Notice the " Z - 07:00". The time zone is given like this for each station, except that a lot of acronyms for the US time zones are used like "EDT".

Thomas

So that means seven hours earlier than Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), right? Not everyone knows Z, or Zulu time, means GMT.

[idpnd]

So it reads the BST (GMT+1) from my PC and subtracts an hour for me? NB It does get the times right in local time somehow..

[PjotrC]

Originally Posted by idpnd

So it reads the BST (GMT+1) from my PC and subtracts an hour for me?

The real calculation is always done in UTC (used to be known as GMT), then it is converted to local time for displaying. The local time zone is specified as part of tide station description in the database.

In this case your local time (BST) is not part of the equation.

If you are adventurous, try the tide stations around the Date Line (Suva, etc.)... it's on my testing list, but I lack the courage...

PS. Note that OCPN lists the timezone as the calculation needed to obtain Local Time from UTC (Z-7 reads as "what you see above is 7 hrs ahead of UT"). In the Admiralty Tide Tables the timezone is listed as the calculation to obtain UT from Local Time, so France is listed as "-0100".

[cagney]

I was adventurous and opened the can of worms, checked the times and dates around the dateline.
OpenCPN applies my local date to everywhere. Z+12 is still the 19:th, even though it locally is the 20:th ( Z ~ 1800 now). A bit strange but not a problem when you actually are in Z+12 as your computers local date will be used.
It also seems like my local summertime change, is applied globally.
Fiji is on Z+13 in my OpenCPN, Z+12 in real life, and the tides is an hour out. Same thing with Papeete, Tahiti, My OpenCPN says Z - 9, real life is Z - 10 and the tides are out by an hour. Same thing here, as long as you adjust your computer to the official timezone you will be right when you actually need the tide predictions.
The danger of armchair sailing in the cyberworld!

Worse is that some stations in NZ displays Z + 1, for example Bluff.

Thomas

[PjotrC]

Originally Posted by cagney

checked the times and dates around the dateline.

Thomas,

Did you compare also the Routeplan data with the Tide Graph data? At least for Suva, the Routeplan seems to be OK... except that I can not select FJT zone naturally...

The starting time was set by entering ">now", and using the resulting timestamp to start at first waypoint, not where I am now (many days enroute from there...).

Note that LMT times will not agree completely with neither UT nor FJT.

Piotr

[HappySeagull]

Just a thought...I wonder if any North American computers are still screwed up by George Bush having changed Daylight Savings...there is a MS update to apply for this.Not having it might create some confusion as to local time versus the tide database...?