Re: [Gpredict-discussion] Clearing Local Database?
Real time satellite tracking and orbit prediction
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From: Gus 8. <8p...@an...> - 2012-09-10 19:41:23
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Ok, here is what I did: 1) Went to "Files to fetch" and removed all files. Then added a file called "my_selection.txt" as the ONLY file listed. Saved. 2) Stopped Gpredict and made sure it was not running. 3) Removed ~/.config/Gpredict/satdata and all contents. 4) Created a folder called ~/Keps containing a file named "my_selection.txt" which contains TLEs for seven (7) only satellites of interest. Six formerly known satellites and a new launch (PROITERES). 5) Restarted Gpredict which immediately re-created ~/.config/Gpredict/satdata and placed 1,260 .sat files and 34 .cat files in it. Where did these come from? 6) Stopped Gpredict again, deleted ~/.config/Gpredict/satdata again, restarted with the --clean-tle command line option. Result: 1,260 .sat files and 34 .cat files re-created again. 7) Edit->Update TLEs->From local files. Point to my own ~/Keps directory. Updated:6, Skipped:0, Missing:1,254, New:0. If there are seven TLEs in the file, how can it update only six, and yet skip none? Net result: I have 1,260 satellites in my local database, only 6 of which are of any current interest to me. I simply CAN NOT get rid of the unwanted 1,254 satellites. And more importantly I simply CAN NOT get the software to recognize (and therefore track) the newly launched PROITERES satellite. Can anyone explain how I can: #1 Manage the local database so that it contains only satellites of interest to me, and NOT the 18,000% extra satellites that I have no interest in, which Gpredict seems to think I should know about? #2 Get Gpredict to accept that there has been a new launch, and that I want to track a satellite that is NOT already in it's list of known satellites? Thanks... -- 73, de Gus 8P6SM The Easternmost Isle |