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wheres_aldo

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  1. The GPS is creating a file and it does usually load but twice now it has failed to upload all the finds. Last time it only uploaded 3 out of 20+. I'm starting to think its a communications error with the website. I would be happy to upload the file but I don't see how to upload a file to this site. Can someone clue me in?
  2. I have been 'trashing' previous .gpx files and emptying the trash before loading new ones for quite a while now since I had a different problem last winter. That was a 'suggestion' from Garmin and a Master Reset was done at that time. A Master Reset was also done after Memorial Day when I first had finds that didn't load to field notes and the geocache_visits.txt file which had 921 logs was deleted just before the reset. I am now seeing that there are a few others that have been seeing this problem. Its nice to know that I'm not alone.
  3. I'm on a Mac. As I indicated before, when I try and open it it wont open as a straight text file - says its a binary file. There were 921 caches when this first happened over Memorial Day. Then geocache_visits.txt was deleted and device reset so now there are no more than 40 isn caches. It was working fine before with 700, 800, ... caches in geocache_visits.txt Note that if you are managing your USB drive (the Garmin) with OS/X that when you delete files it does not actually do what you ask. It marks them as being in the trash but the files are still occupying space. So you could be running out of space despite the fact that you see no files. To really remove deleted files and get the full space back, you need instruct OS/X to empty the trash. To see if this is part of your issue, do a Get Info and look at "Available" (before and after emptying the trash) to see if that number is consistent with what you expect. As I've stated before, in spite of the .txt file type, the Mac will NOT open it and says its a binary file. I can force it to open but then the display is all Hosed. I can dump the file and see that every other character is a NULL byte and there is no 'magic' preamble at the beginning of the file. It might be Unicode formatted page 0 characters . TextEdit, Preview aren't dealing with correctly if that is the case. There are one or two pocket queries which consist of TWO gpx files, one for caches and the other for parking waypoints, as is typical of pocket queries. There may be as many as 1200 total caches and waypoints in the queries.
  4. I'm on a Mac. As I indicated before, when I try and open it it wont open as a straight text file - says its a binary file. There were 921 caches when this first happened over Memorial Day. Then geocache_visits.txt was deleted and device reset so now there are no more than 40 isn caches. It was working fine before with 700, 800, ... caches in geocache_visits.txt
  5. They got there using mostly ordinary pocket queries pasted into the devices Garmin->GPX directory, however occasionally I use the web feature to download a cache directly to the device as a GPX file. I don't know to post the geocache_visits.txt but would be glad to if given instructions. I thought it was a text file but it is oddly formatted and command line utilities such as more cant deal with it. Every other character is a NULL. Is it maybe formatted in Unicode? Dumping the file I can see (between the NULLS) that the caches that didn't get posted to my field notes ARE on the device so maybe this is an issue with the website.!?
  6. I have an Oregon 400t that I was able to find caches with until around a year ago. After an update it was showing accuracies of 40' instead of the 10' that it showed before. The loss of accuracy was confirmed by it having become much harder to find caches. Then we saw that it would zero 40' to 60' from my friends Oregon 450 and then also from my new 62s which agreed closely with the 450. Recently I decided to give it another try after it had fallen into disuse and reverted the software by one major version. Now my accuracy is back to 10' and I can find caches with it again. 40' to 60' isnt a big deal if you're using it for hiking or fishing but its a big deal when looking for geocaches. However, the older software must have conflicts because there are now other problems I've never seen before like all my profiles looking and behaving the same.
  7. I have had a Garmin 62s for about a year and have logged a little more than 900 finds with it and it has worked just great until recently. Over Memorial Day we ran a power trail (my first) and found just under 200 caches but the 62s only logged about 140 of them. I called Garmin and we deleted a fairly large geocache_visits.txt and did a master reset. The found count did not change but I was off and logging caches again until this weekend when it only logged 3 finds out of 20 or 30. I dont know if this is a problem with the device, a problem with the website, or a problem with holidays. Even though logs are missing in my field notes, the map shows the found caches as open (yellow) and I have used that to recover my missing logs by mousing over the open cache symbol, clicking, and selecting 'review point' to find which cache it was, and then logging it manually but this takes hours and is very painful. Has anyone else experienced a failure to log finds paperlessly?
  8. This has probably been discussed before but I can't find anything on the subject. I am surprised to find that logging a cache w/ 'Needs Repair' for such reasons as wet log or an animal has chewed off the side of the cache does not credit me with a find. Should I log it twice, once with a Found It and again with a needs repair?
  9. No, since there isn't a "For Kids Only" attribute. No, I hsve no finds in that area. I just clicked the preview for the same query and I'm not seeing any of the caches I saw before, i.e. I now see several caches in the park where I didnt see any before and I'm not seeing the caches that were listed in the surrounding area. I might still have the GPX file but I dont know how I could ship to someone.
  10. I ran a pocket query for 500 results centered on Zip 10007 with NY and NJ selected for states with Traditional only and Small, Regular, and Large selected. When I went to Liberty State Park NJ and started scrolling through the caches looking a candidate, the first 20 or so descriptions had "For Kids Only". It was strange because there were no caches in the park and the area around the park where the caches were located is a very rough neighborhood. I'm wondering if these caches might be being used for criminal endeavors. I gave up on NJ and went back to the NY side. My original question was whether there is a way to filter these caches out without loosing caches that are tolerant of adults.
  11. I recently took a trip to NYC and thought I would get some caches in NY and NJ. So I loaded up a pocket query centered on the Battery Park area and including states NY and NJ but when I got there and tried to choose some caches but the first 20 where marked "FOR CHILDREN ONLY" in the first line of the description. I've never seen this before. So my question is: should I select 'Kids' on the attributes to exclude section? Not that I have anything against kids and I wouldnt want to miss out on a nice cache that tolerates adults. P.S. I wouldn't let a kid near the crappy area where these were located - I wouldnt even go into the area except during broad daylight so it seems kind of strange that they're all marked Kids Only.
  12. I do live in rattlesnake country, as well as water moccasin country, and I agree with your point whole heartedly. My favorite treks are deep in the swamps, and I frequently have to move snakes out of my way, or walk around them. I've had my snake boots bitten many times, but never by a snake whose presence I was aware of until the bite. Handguns would've been useless in each of these circumstances. On a side note, the one time I was envenomated by a snake, it was due to my own stupidity. I am interested in how you got bit by your own stupidity. I grew up in Arizona and used to open carry a Ruger (cant remember the model). I had several experiences with rattlers but only once felt seriously threatened enough to feel that I needed to put their lights out - there were 3 of them and they had me surrounded. Now I am traveling the country as an itinerant engineer and currently in GA. The cottonmouths and copperheads scare the crap out of me. I've read they strike first and ask questions later and also that they are very territorial and will persue you if you enter their area. I'm trying to figure out how to deal with that so that I can comfortably and safely go about my entertainment. Not that I am not concerned with Thuggles. Two guys once were about to throw me over a 600 ft cliff and I was only saved by a group of 10 hikers who came around the corner. They wanted my camera. I wasnt carrying at the time.
  13. I think terrorists have bigger plans than to blow up a light pole.
  14. I'm sorry. That was a thoughtless comment. I know for a fact the majority of the police in the area ARE familiar with geocaching so I cant see how the whole incident went that far w/o a sargeant or someone coming by and realizing what it was. I also know there are hundreds of similar caches in the area and if even one of the cache owners were to have to pay for the time of 10 to 20 city employees for an afternoon it would be very chilling for the sport. Wyoming MI just a mile or two west of this location DOES charge for their services and it doesn't stop them from demanding tax dollars. The item on the WOOD website was almost nothing - on the day it happened it was a very big deal.
  15. When I was in Grand Rapids, MI last week there was an interesting item in the news on WOOD TV. It seems that a utility worker found a cache hidden in the base of a light pole. Not knowing what it was and thinking the worst, he called the police who then sent out the bomb squad. The result was that a "whole lot of city employees" managed to entertain themselves for hours at tax payer expense. The story ended saying that police detectives were "looking for the culprit" implying that the cache owner would be liable for the cost of the entire operation. You have to wonder what kind of geniuses they hire under affirmative action but I am also concerned about what damage such geniuses could do to the sport.
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