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Cache O'Plenty, I just checked that...excellent, I'll give it a whirl soon. Thanks!!

First of all THANKS for this macro!! I there any way to run the macro from a filtered database without creating a new database from a GPX? Every time I try, it runs the whole database.

I gained a lot of insight throught this thread. The issue has been resolved with the removal of four of the ten caches. Unfortunately, that reduces the length of the loop drastically, but it's still a nice "LITTLE" loop. Also, after returning to remove the four, I realized that it probably could be seen as a power trail even though parts of the loop were somewhat tough hiking...not all that tough though. Thanks to all for the input!

Yeah, we're discussing that now. Thanks

My first thought. A cache every tenth of a mile or so sounds like a power trail to me. The caches are more than a tenth as the crow flies and the whole loop is 4.5 miles through rugged rocky hills...it's no power trail!

I did that, I sent him a list of seven reasons to justify the series including descriptions, the fact that this is not an easy 4.5 mile hike and ten caches is a justifiable number. The locations are mostly unique, interesting and/or beautiful spots. They are all good hides, but he seems bent on making it into a couple of multis.

Our area has been taken over by guardrail and lightskirt caches etc (not that there's anything wrong with that). We desperately want to re-introduce woodland caching and there is not much woodland to work with. We like to get cachers from outside our area to come get em and three or four caches will not get anyone to drive 30 or 40 miles, but ten might. I could go on.

I recently placed ten caches in a park near my home. The distances between them are all certainly over the .1 guideline as the crow flies and double that on the trail. The total hike is between 4 and 5 miles in my opinion, that is nowhere near saturation. The available woodland in my area is very limited so we need to make the best use of it and the only other option is urban micros (they're fine, but not what we want to hide). The reviewer feels that this constitutes saturation and has suggested combining them into two or three multis...so what is the difference besides the fact that I will get one third as many visitors to my caches. There will still be ten boxes in the woods, there will still be cachers searching in ten places, and if one stage goes missing, the cacher goes home disappointed. If one cache in a series of ten goes missing, the cacher is still able to find the other nine. I just don't understand that reasoning and how it serves the best interest of the game.

BlueDeuce, I just got back to this. It was Snoopy, but since I made the post, I contacted the holder and he mailed the TB to me. Very nice of him! On the side note, that was our first trackable and I didn't even realize I did that until you pointed it out. A side note of my own, I actually own a blue deuce. Thanks!

Does Geocaching.com ever contact cachers who are holding TBs? We have one that the current holder had agreed to mail to us, but that was a pretty long time ago and now he doesn't respond to emails. I'm hoping he's just slow getting around to it and it's not that he lost it. I'd like to know one way or the other.

Thanks, I'll try that. I sometimes get a constant rebooting on Nuvis after exporting Favorites from GSAK and not doing a Safe removal before pulling the USB cable. I usually manage to get it recognized as a mass storage device by turning the device on and off again a couple of times with USB cable connected. I suspect that you've managed to get a corrupt GUPDATE.GCD onto your GPS. I would be surprised if the update procedure doesn't have some sort of protection against installing a corrupt update so with a little luck you can get the device inte mass storage mode and re-run the webupdater. Also make sure you have not filled up the filesystem on the device before trying the upgrade. I suppose have little or no space left most likely will make it fail the upgrade.

I had a recurring problem with random re-booting on my nuvi880. The Garmin tech told me to run updater because there was a known issue that had been corrected. After running updater, the unit just constantly shows the staus bar as updating system software etc, over and over again. Even after shutting down, it re-starts and continues the same. When I ran updater, it never found the nuvi, just Garmin. That seemed odd and now in hindsight I think the update might have gone to the wrong location and wiped out some other files. Any thoughts (besides..buy a Magellan!) Thanks

Say it aint so? Hey, it's only just in case!!

Hey Harry! That one is holding up OK I guess. Thanks!

That might create a problem!

We've recently noticed that there are a lot of inferior nano containers out there. Some of them lose their magnetism while others lose their magnets altogether. We have been considering hiding a few, but we don't want to use junk. Any opinions?

We were out today and ran into a problem with my nuvi 880. Originally, I had a problem with the unit freezing while the prox alerts were chiming. I deleted all that and now just use it without the alerts. That was working fine untill today. I was reading cache info (more) and the unit froze again. The only way I could get it back was to remove and replace the battery. I'll write to Garmin, hopefully it's a glitch that they know about (and are working on)

dougsmiley, I ran the macro several times and I keep getting the "invalid"

My ineptitude has reached its highest level, I have apparently broken the macro! First I ran it in manual mode, with proximity alerts on my nuvi 880. Everything looked great while sitting at home with the "more" info running all the way through the cache page . I took it out for a spin and soon after the alert sounded, the unit froze. I assumed that the 880 had a similar bug as the 700 series and re-ran the macro without the alerts. The only change I made was to change the "Will you be using the alert feature in POILoader?" to No. After running the macro, I tried to load the results to the nuvi and got the message "custom POIs/geocache tourguide.gpx is invalid etc". I tried uninstalling the macro, re-downloading it and re-installing. I did the same with POI Loader. The settings in the macro were still where I had them so obviously, I didn't really uninstall completely.

OK, now I have a new problem. After creating custom POIs with the proximity alert and discovering that the 800 series have the same crashing issue as the 700 series, I can't get rid of the POIs except by removing the SD card and doing a reset. I've tried deleting through the POI loader with no luck. Then I tried creating a new set of POIs, but they just install alongside the originals without deleting any. I even tried using the micro to SD adapter and erasing on my PC, but for some reason, the PC doesn't see the micro card. My next step will be a dedicated micro reader and if that fails, a new micro card.

We went out yesterday to give this a workout. It was all looking good until the proximity alert chimed a couple of times. I guess the 800 have the same problem as the 700s...everything came to a screeching halt. We'll have to look for a Garmin update too.

This is cache GC1GCQV

Here's something odd that I just found. In the cache descriptions I just viewed, some sentences end with andnbsp...or, andnbsp;andnbsp...?? At first I thought that they might be ampersands or something (like sometimes quotation marks come up as quot quot etc), but there is nothing like that on the actual cache page. It's not a problem, but it is strange

Well, the 700 series settings work just fine with an 880...SWEET! This is unreal, I didn't dare expect it to work so well. I can't wait to get out and really give it a try. Thanks so much for this!!

Thanks, I'll try that.