OK, the GSAK guys say default format for GSAK to the Oregon 600 is.ggz and not.gpx. I can change the file extension in the GSAK settings to.gpx I like to filter in GSAK before sending to my navi. I am a little puzzled as to why Garmin dropped the wherigo function. I have a funny feeling there is politics brewing between Garmin and Ground Speak. Bring your computer for hands-on experience. GSAK works with Windows, but does not work on Mac operated systems unless you have the Windows simulator installed. I will have some memory cards available with GSAK preloaded, along with other files to use with GSAK. Bring your HOME coordinates or coordinates for whatever search point you use. To me, this is the least intrusive and simplest way to run GSAK on a Mac, but because I have access to a PC I haven't bother with trying to run it on my Mac (which I use much more often). Given the amount of technical expertise in the community I've thought about a well managed community open source project for a multi platform waypoint manager.
ATTENTION! This guide is a few years old! I haven’t used GSAK on my mac in a very long time since I mostly use Project-GC and iCaching instead. In other word I can’t promise this guide will work!
- Deleting Apps from Winebottler can be done from within Winebottler from the “On my Mac” window: However, while this removes the GSAK App from the Mac’s Applications folder, in my experience not everything got removed, so I also checked the user’s Library, i.e. For anything starting with GSAK8, in.
- GSAK users that like to share their own macros can add them to the GSAK macro library. Macros to perform all manner of tasks can be found here. To install one of these macros just click on the.gsk file link at the bottom of the post, and select the 'Open With' option.
I’ve been searching the web for a guide how to get GSAK to run on OS X, but since i didn’t found anyone I decided to write one myself, so here you go. 🙂
As you know GSAK is not meant to run on OS X so you probably might experience some crashes and some bugs. If you run into any bugs, please feel free to let me know in a comment below. 🙂
What you need is:
- A Mac running OS X (duuuh! 🤪)
- Wine and WineBottler
- GSAK8
- A computer running Windows (If you have Parallels and Windows installed on your Mac this works fine too)
- A USB memory
- And a cup of coffee or two
Step 1 (Download and install WineBottler):
Go to http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/ and download WineBottler 1.4.1.6 Stable.
Open the DMG-file and drag both Wine and WineBottler to your Application-folder.
Step 2 (Download GSAK):
Go to http://gsak.net/ and download GSAK Version 8.3.0.
Step 3 (Installing GSAK using WineBottler):
Start WineBottler (if you get asked to download the latest version click Skip this version or Remind me later).
Click on Advanced
Click on select File… and browse and choose the GSAK installer that you’ve downloaded.
Check the box ‘Bundle’ (Include Wine binaries, so the app can run without prior install of Wine.
Under ‘Identifier’ you can type “GSAK8”
It should look like this:
Click on ‘Install’.
Enter “GSAK8′ as filename and choose where you want to save the file (for example on your Desktop) and click on ‘Save’.
Follow the GSAK installation instructions.
When you get near the end of the installation uncheck every check box so it looks like this:
Click ‘Next’
Uncheck the ‘Launch GSAK’-box.
Click ‘Finish’
Now you will be asked to choose which file that is going to run when you dubble click the created application.
Choose ‘gsak.exe’ so it looks like this:
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Click on ‘OK’
Step 4 (Authenticate GSAK with geocaching.com):
Here it gets a little tricky cause GSAK running under Wine won’t authenticate with geocaching.com, it will just freeze if you try to sign in on geocaching.com.
So here is what you need to do:
Install GSAK on a computer running Windows (it works fine if you are running Windows under Parallels on your Mac).
When GSAK is installed and running:
Click on ‘Geocaching.com access->Get another access token’
Enter your username and password, don’t forget to check the ‘Keep me signed in’-checkbox.
Click ‘Sign In’ and then ‘Allow access’
GSAK now has access to your geocaching.com-account. You can see this by clicking on the menu ‘Geocaching.com access’ and now your geocaching username should be listed on the bottom of then menu.
Click on File->Backup
Click on ‘Select all Databases’ and check the box ‘Save GSAK Settings’.
Choose your USB memory as the location to save the backup file and then click ‘Backup’
Insert your USB memory in your Mac and start GSAK.
Click on File -> Restore
Choose your backed up file on your USB memory (you probably need to browse to: Z:Volumes<your USB drive>).
Click on ‘Select all Databases’
Check ‘Restore all GSAK Settings’
Check ‘Remove absolute paths for called macros (recommended)’
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Click on ‘Restore’ and then click ‘Yes’ and after a little while click ‘OK’.
If every thing went right your GSAK on OS X now should be authenticated with geocaching.com. To verify this click on ‘Geocaching.com access’ and on the bottom of the meny you should see your geocaching username.
Step 5 (Fix the icon)
(This step is very optional and if you don’t care about how your icon look you can jump to step 6)
Now you got GSAK running on your Mac. But as you see it has a quite poor icon.
To fix this follow the instruction below:
Click here to download the GSAK icon.
Open the gsak.ico with Preview on your Mac.
Click on Edit->Copy (or just push CMD+C on your keyboard)
Right click on your GSAK8-app and choose Get info (or just click it once and push CMD+I on your keyboard).
Click on the icon in the upper left corner and then click Edit->Paste (or just push CMD+V on your keyboard).
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Close the window by clicking on X in the upper left corner.
Now you should have a quite nice icon for your GSAK-app. 🙂
Step 6 (Moving GSAK to your Application-folder)
Just like the title says, it’s time to move your GSAK-app to your Application-folder. In other words just drag and drop it to your Application folder and then you are good to go. 🙂
Feel free to give me feedback by commenting below.