AlmondEyes

I just posted about this myself prior to seeing your post. Yes, I now have no icon for messages.

Might have been when I updated my system to the latest version….. the icon is now not there. Clicking that area does take me to messages, albeit with the same amount of error messages or blank screens as it has been for a while now. This website seems to be going downhill with bugs over the past few years.

Don’t know how to word this but it happens on DDG, Brave, and Safari on ipad. Most of the time, when I am viewing the map of an area and I want to move around to view a different area, it only does a zoom in/out thing. I have to hit refresh and it might properly work then. Or not. But, unless it does work normal, I am unable to move the map around to view more. This issue was occurring a year or more ago but then it was fixed. Over the past few months it is happening again. Edited to add there are times when the map works as it should for a minute or two and then this zoom in/out thing happens. I am not doing anything different than moving my finger around to view more map when it does glitch with this zoom thing.

I am trying to remove archived caches from a particular list I’ve made. I check mark the ones to remove and hit the “Delete From List” button and, the majority of the time, I receive this message. Refreshing the page does not remove them; just sends me back to this same page and I try to remove them again and same thing happens.

Marty, Ok, that’s one way to work around it, so thank you for the suggestion. I can only do that via the app; don’t see a way to edit or add way points to a write up on the website. I use the website to do reading since it’s tons easier. I did a test with what you said and it immediate showed on my map as this icon. If this is something you do, how do you remember what you changed and what it was originally for when you do head out for those caches? Canary, Yes, I can create a new list and add them to that. But they wouldn’t just show on my map as being ones I really want to not forget to go after. I’m looking for a blatant icon I can change particular caches to so they’d stand out when I’m viewing the map of all caches.

You have an option to allow or disallow people from seeing all kinds of things on your profile. Perhaps your friend changed their settings so no one can view their finds, where as they used to at least allow friends to view them. Just a thought….

I’d like to be able to change the icon of a cache on the map to a red heart or something that would stick out if it’s a cache I definitely want to find. Sometimes I’m perusing through the descriptions and find one that peaks my interest but I can’t just head out there at that moment to find. I want to be able to mark caches so they stand out on my map making them easier to spot.

Thanks for all the replies. One issue is I’m using the app while in the field and it’s just not smooth for me, but I don’t take well to technology that keeps changing or has too many options or isn’t obvious in maneuvering to my brain. Maybe people who use computers or technology as hobbies or careers have an easier time; I know how to use hammers and other hand tools and they never change. My brain just doesn’t keep up with things or find it easy to figure things out. I swear the app allows me to do some things but then doesn’t the next time. I also cannot copy and paste from the app; for instance, I wanted to copy the GC code from the cache where I found the bug and paste it in the bug’s log. No way my old brain is going to remember the code before I got back a few screens to get to the trackable’s page and then type it in. Nuh-uh.

I already logged the trackable saying I retrieved it from a cache so I don’t know if I can go back and edit what was already done. But I’ve run in to this a few times where I grab a trackable from a cache and later realize it wasn’t dropped electronically in to that cache. If I can’t fix this now, how do I proceed if this happens again?

I love going after them but they tend to be no more than 3 years lonely here. I still haven’t found an easy way to locate only them. I wish I could do it via the app; I don’t have a computer, so doing a pocket query and selecting only the oldest to download to my GPS is not doable for me. I haven’t kept a list of lonely caches; I just find them and am happy for that time and then move on. Do you guys actually write down in a notebook the details of these? Or is there a place on the website to list them? How long since found do you even consider a cache to be lonely; 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, more than 5 years???

I don’t know what “mapping an empty search result” means. But, for instance, in the photo I posted, I was looking at all archived caches. All I did was click on one of them so I could read the cache listing and that pop up popped up. It doesn’t always pop up…. many times I am able to click on an archived cache’s name and the page opens up so I can look at the write up the same way you’d open up and be able to read an active cache’s write up.

I don’t know what it’s supposed to do, but it does open many of them. I only get that pop up sometimes. It is a pain because you can’t just X out of it or hit the back button…. it doesn’t go away. I have to get off the website and get back on to continue doing something else.

Finally got the error message to happen again. Here’s a screen shot. Seems to happen when I want to view an archived listing mostly. But not always; sometimes the listing pops up with no problems.

It’s not just you. It’s been worse for me a few weeks now. I’ll go to Messages and get a white screen where my messages should be. I have to refresh to get it to load now. I’ll be in the middle of typing a message to someone and the screen freezes. Have to get off the page and get back on it in order to finish typing. Other times I go back to finish typing to find all I’ve typed was deleted so I have to start over again. Trying to open up the Event listing doesn’t always work properly. And sometimes I get a message that’s some sort of error message I cannot X out of, nor can I hit the back button or swipe right in order to go backward. That error message (it says something about a cache listing went wrong but I can’t recall exactly what it says) just won’t allow me to do anything. I have to X off the website and go back in again. Haven’t done anything different on my end. Seems to work better in DuckDuckGo vs Safari.

UGH! You both were right….. I was putting in the letter O instead of the number 0. Thank you! Yes, it does say it’s from Coinsandpins.com. I hadn’t come across one of these yet. Really, I rarely come across many trackables anymore but I always grab them if it’s a cache that doesn’t have much traffic just to move them along a bit.

I found a cache that isn’t found often and this tag was in there. It didn’t show as being in there on the cache page. There is only a stamped number on the back that starts with RA but I can’t find a page for this tag. I put the numbers in and the website says it doesn’t exist. Aren’t these supposed to have another set of numbers to go by in order for other cachers to log? What am I supposed to do with this thing because I cannot log it or figure out who the owner is in order to reach out to them. I found it in Philadelphia, Penna.

I can’t keep up with facebook in any sort of way, so I got left behind when it got popular. I’d like a geocaching buddy to head out once in a while. I’m not a die-hard catcher; never feel the need to set a goal for any time out. If you’d also like a buddy to grab a few here and there, let me know. I’m in Bucks and will cache in the greater Philly/NJ area or within an hour-ish drive.

Same happened to me, Cerberus. I got left behind by several social groups because I can’t keep up or understand that website.

I just found this thread. I’m happy to read I’m not the only one who has had trackables vanish. Most of my coins and bugs disappeared long ago. I also never understood the point when people post “Discovered xxx coin or bug”. But now I’m understanding the point of it. At least the owners can better keep track of when and where it is.

My phone is an IPhone 5s.... old for a phone and the battery sometimes drains pretty quick plus I don’t have a typical plan so I don’t have a ton of monthly data. So using my phone was out of the question.

Do you HAVE to? I mean, are you using an old Etrex GPS or something that is so old school? I still have my old yellow Etrex.

Recipe, thank you..... I didn’t know you could create pocket queries from the site. It seemed the way to download cache information from them website was from using a Garmin Express program. I thought using that was mandatory now. I found directions on this site for creating pocket queries, so hopefully it’ll work.

Cerberus, it’s been at least 10 years and I don’t have any numbers. Now that you mention SEPAG, that sounds familiar. Wasn’t that message boards? Does it still exist; because I could try there as well. What is BEST? For the ones I found last month, I loaded the co-ordinates in individually. Just added 5 for that area and figured I’d find 2-3. Recipe, I do have a very old laptop with Ubuntu on it. But it’s a version of Ubuntu that quit being supported many years ago and that laptop doesn’t even have enough memory to reformat to a newer Linux. I actually stopped by a mom and pop computer store and left my number telling him I’d like prices on a laptop with a CD drive (may as well drag out all those old games and play them again) and what ever Windows can run Garmin programs, but don’t want bells and whistles or a high price. He said finding a laptop with a CD is tough, so it may be a while before I hear from him.

I’ve no clue how people cache without a Window’s computer. I don’t have one, just an old iPad. I’ve been out of caching for many years but would like to get back to it now. I had an Oregon 450 that kept giving me issues, so I gave up caching years ago. Wonder if someone else could get it running. Recently I bought a GPSmap 64SX, paid for an upgraded membership here, and need someone’s help who can use their computer to update what ever software needs updated in this GPS plus download a bunch of caches to it using my account. I’m in the Bensalem area of Bucks County, Pa, but will travel to someone’s place within 45 minutes from here. I thought I could use a library’s computer, but they’re blocking that Garmin program from downloading now, so I’m stuck! I’m not a facebook user; it seems the message boards here are dead like message boards on other platforms started dying when facebook got popular. Would anyone here be able to help me or put me in touch with someone who would help?

Bought this GPS many years ago and it used to work great for geocaching plus just general driving around directions. Worked great for a year or so, but then it would give me a “route calculation error, maps do not have routable roads in this area” message. I gave up and put it away for years after handing it over to anyone who was techie to see if they could figure this out without fixing it. Looking at the screen it shows all the streets and it seems to work Taking me to a geocache if I’m just looking at the compass. But I keep getting that stupid error message when I try to use it for driving, even putting it on Automobile or telling it to take me to a local business it knows is nearby. Two maps are enabled - Metro guide North America Version 8 and Worldwide DEM basement NR. Now I want to get back in to geocaching a bit, but have no idea what to do with this thing. I no longer have a Windows computer, just an ipad. When the libraries open again for entrance to patrons, I can use their Window’s computers. I’d like to get this issue fixed. I liked the paperless caching it was able to do. If it cannot be fixed I understand the Garmin 66S may Be my next closest option (with no computer), but I’ve read there are issues with that. Using my phone isn’t an option, it has bad battery life and not much available memory for more apps. Thought of maybe selling this but I read on these forums there are plenty of people who still enjoy their Oregon 450, so it seems there’s hope.