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Pear Head · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:56 pm Post subject: GSAK upgrade (7.7.0.109)

I just upgraded my GSAK tonight to the latest and greatest (7.7.0.109). Clyde switched the entire program over to a new database structure (using SQLite).

I am amazed at how much faster the new version runs compared to the old one. I knew from reading stuff a couple of months ago that this was going to help improve efficiency when it came out, but it's an amazing difference.

It's probably not too noticeable on a smaller database, but if yours is larger then you'll probably notice the difference (I have about 38500 waypoints and just over 1.5 million logs in mine).
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Pear Head · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:58 pm Post subject:

I will note too that the upgrade process itself took quite a while (I'm guessing mine was close to two hours for it to optimize the database).

For a while it just sat at the startup splash screen and didn't offer me any information about what was going on - something to be aware of as you upgrade.
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sir_zman · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:09 am Post subject:

After reading your post, I did an update last night, my update took about 1 minute, and the loading screen was only up for a few seconds...but I only have two databases, one with 2000 caches, and one with 500 caches.

jerpete · Geocacher Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 29

I upgraded to the beta version last week and it took about 15 minutes, I have about 20,000 caches in my db's. Upgrading from the beta to the release took no time.