Rest Areas Combined

Bentbiker, all you have to do is to remove the second extension from the title of the file. Then it will be recognized by POI Uploader.

I have resaved and uploaded the file, here is a link that describes what is happening: http://www.poi-factory.com/node/14920

Thanks for letting us know.

Miss POI

Thanks, Mary Ann, but it didn't work this time. As you know, it worked fine last time; guess Ken is getting trickier in his technique. Did you do it differently?

Thanks, Mike. I'm trying to avoid multiple posts from newcomers who struggle with such a suggestion. We had one thread that went on forever trying to instruct a user on deleting a double extension.

I have re uploaded it to the site again a different way. Please see if this works now.

Miss POI

I downloaded from the webmail site via Safari and it worked perfectly (csv only). I will hold my breath to see whether that holds true when I download from the site.

Edit: Yes, it now works correctly from the site.

No change in technique from this end - I just upload a straight .csv file from this end. I also download files to a Mac - I usually have to strip the .txt that the Mac adds to the file during download.
Always upload using PC.

Now I am really confused. When I previously asked you for your help, you wrote that you didn't know what I was talking about -- that you did not get any double extension when you downloaded your file with a Mac.

If you now see the problem, perhaps you can inquire of Mary Ann as to the technique she successfully used to open, re-save the file and thus eliminate the problem. That would eliminate the thousands of Mac users (and/or Mary Ann) from having to do it. Since you say you upload with a PC (presumably you mean a Windows unit), you can save a lot of people, a lot of time.

I use 3 different browsers on my Mac. I use Firefox, Safari and IE. I won't swear which I have used to download files. All seem to react slightly differently on downloads. I was not necessarily referring to POI files that I needed to strip extra extensions - just some text files I have to do it to read with my text reader.
95 % of my work is done on Windows XP platform. I run my file through Excel to sort file by longitude and then tell it to "save as" a .csv file and then I run POI Verifier on the saved file. I then trash the older version and remove the _V from the verified file.
When I click on the file for info it says it is a csv file.
I will double check before next update to insure no double extension is indicated.

Thanks, Ken, but I don't know if the double extension will be viewable until it is downloaded and saved via Safari. It is as if some program (POI Verifier?) is deleting a second TXT extension or saving the file in such a way that Safari (and only Safari) still sees the .txt when it downloads it. Certainly, Mary Ann is not able to see the second extension when she opens and re-saves the file, but afterwards, Safari no longer sees the .txt.

Yesterday I downloaded the recent version of "Rest Areas ..." to my Mac. I noticed the double extension and removed the ".txt". After reading this tread, however, I checked my downloads and discovered that the ".txt" was still there. My solution was to open it with TextEdit and then save it with the correct extension. It worked fine.

(I'm gonna get OSX 10.5 soon!)