bladesedge

Hi I got caught up in the excitement of the first day of Challenges and created a challenge that is locationless, that I would like now to give alocation. NOONE has completed the challenge yet, although 3 have accepted, but I'm getting a few thumbs down.... i think because it is locationless. Now I know the rule is - no editing after its been 24 hours or someone completes the cache. I want to archive it BEFORE someone completes it so I can recreate it with a location. I've seen lots of people recommend this action, but I can't find an archive button anywhere!!!

Am trying to add a challenge, but can't add a location - VERY frustrating! I put in the coordinates I want and then click on search and for 2 mins its been saying 'Searching for items'. FRUSTRATED!

I am planning a geocaching trip to Dunedin in a month or twos time. I can have a look for you.... and move it on if I find it.

I had the same one miss me, it showed up in today's PQ but no email. ETA: I did get notifications on 1/18, 1/20, and 1/21 (one each day). I did get this reply from the GC support "Good news (sort of) - IT has confirmed that your emails have NOT gone out, which means we can definitely narrow down this to something on our end. That gives us something to go on; investigation is continuing." I got an 'Owner' notification saying one of my caches had been found about 10-15 mins ago, but normally I'd get another notification as well as I have all caches of all types in an 80km radius set to tell me if someone found it or not. The another notification as only just come through.

Thats what I wanted to hear! Cheers

I'm looking at changing the hint on a cache I have, as it's a puzzle and several people have remarked on being able to find it with the hint alone; not needing to solve the puzzle. So, if I change the hint, will there be a Note in the logs showing the old hint and what it was changed to? Like the one when you change the coords on a cache.

Have never used FourSquare nor do I really know what it does. I'll stick to facebook, twitter, linkedin....... the list goes on. Find that if I want to know what others are up to, twitter integration with logs works well.

To me they're just a non-event as they're all geography based. I'm in New Zealand.

IMHO - FTF is the first to sign the log. With some caches, just finding the cache is only half the problem, then you have to open it! I've come across a couple of caches where I've had to sit for a while and work it out. Obviously the first person to find it was too impatient to work it out, as you showed it was possible, so therefore you can claim FTF. If I was the CO, I'd be emailing the other guy and warning him he has to go out and sign the log to claim hes found it..... and possibly removing the 'find'. But thats just me.

If they haven't been active for 3 years and the cache is ok, then chances are they or someone else is still maintaining it. Or kind cachers are replacing logs as per needed.

I like the idea of that - am a bit of a cemetery nut myself! Don't know if it's possible, but I've just installed GSAK myself and am keen to see if it's possible

It's all fixed now - it wasn't 'Gateway' - that one was fine. I contacted camocrab immediately after it was published, but it was an agonising 2-3 hour wait before he retracted it to allow me to edit it and remove the audit trail. Then it got published again overnight. Hopefully noone printed out or downloaded the gpx in that time.

I created a new cache - a puzzle - had everything right, but didn't know not to put the final coords in the listing box. Tried to change it before it got published, but I cant, but of course I can't move the coords too far away. ANNOYING! I have altered it to somewhere nearby, but it's an agonising wait until someone cleans it up - the log saying I changed it still has the original coords in it! So frustrating!

My 2 cents - I don't like the pill/vitamin containers as the logs can be REALLY hard to extract from them. The log in it's baggy tends to fill the entire cavity of the pill container, and doesn't like coming out the smaller opening easily. Hard not to damage the baggy or it's log book. Especially if people have put other small trade ables in the container also. I prefer containers where the opening is the same width as the rest of the container - especially for small containers. The less maintenance you have to do as a CO the better!

Nevermind - worked it out that this user has changed names and is relogging caches under their new name.

In the last 10 mins I've received notification emails for two local caches, one of which has been archived in 2008. Both were logged in 2006. Right before i got them I received 4 notifications that someone had found my own caches - 3 FTFs and 1 older cache. Is there something weird going on at the moment? Not sure where I was to log this!

Partly it is because I'm not sure how it will appear on the GPSr, as I have not experimented (I use GSAK to transfer my waypoints). The main reason is because sometimes, when people see 2 files in the ZIP file, they pick the wrong one and wonder why the caches don't show up. Can you describe how the extra waypoints GPX show up on the 62s? I'm actually quite curious. This is related to the question I have about seeing waypoints for multis, carparks etc. How can you see them?

CacheSense (used to be Cacheberry)

geographical souvenirs are great..... if you live anywhere near those countries. And of course everyone is going to vote for their country, so those with the greatest geocaching population are going to vote for them cos it's an easy find! I'd love some non-geographical ones that I might have a chance of getting. I voted for the 5/5 one. That I can go for.

Would love to get a daily fix of caching, but I've exhausted all the caches in my area and not that many new ones are published! Am on my summer holiday at the moment, so planning many long caching runs. Did 21 the other day on a 350km round trip.

Santa didn't visit this year. I got a voucher from work so I used it to go towards a Garmin 62s.

Yeah you need to be able to maintain any of your caches as a CO. Or, have someone else closer to it that can check on it for you. Several caches in my area are maintained by relatives of the CO. I believe the same as everyone else - check the physical log.

I have a Blackberry 9700 and found the Trimble software constantly gave me random App Error 539 (or 529) issues - and would freeze upon restarts. I wiped and restored my phone about 6 times before I worked out it was the Trimble software. I ended up getting my money back on it, so obviously was a bug, and the errors never came back after I uninstalled it. (didn't like the interface much anyway!) I have CacheSense on my BB now - much nicer, but have just upgraded my GPS device to a Garmin 62s - so don't know how much I'll continue to use my BB for caching!

Bump up - still looking for help if anyone can provide!

I've just bought a Garmin 62s and have spent the day learning to use it. I've put in a few pocket queries and have been checking them out. 1 question about multis - I copied the two gpx's from the pocket query into the GPX folder, and the geocaches and the waypoints are showing up on the maps, but I'm wondering if you can go to a multi cache on the device and see it's related waypoints? I haven't worked that out yet. Thanks