Seaclear II Questions...

[CanCanCase]

Originally Posted by Nova

The program downloaded successfully, as did the charts from CG district 1 -- lots of charts. I figured out the directory and the chart path -- but -- the big problem I have is that each chart unzipped into its own folder, each folder containing the bsb and the kap files. The SeaClear find new charts feature won't see them unless I move the kap file (which is all it needs) for each chart into the SeaClear chart folder. I would need to do this for dozens and dozens of charts. Is this necessary, or am I missing something somewhere along the line here. Any help would be most welcome! I am not very computer literate (but I'm learning!) so I hope I have explained this clearly.

Nova-
I had the same issue... hundreds of charts that download each KAP file into a separate directory using the NOAA number for the directory name. I simply used the "Search" function (found under the "Start" menu if you're using Windoze) to search my entire hard drive for ".kap" (without the quotes.) The resulting list of KAP files can then be selected (ctrl-A to "select all") and drag them to the SeaClear chart directory.

Hope this rather simplistic solution helps. If you're running SeaClear on a Linux/Unix based system, I was toying with the idea of writing a script to relocate all the KAP files from a given folder or directory, but since I'm retired from the computer development business, I always prefer a built-in solution such as "search" to writing my own scripts...

-Case