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You must be kidding. I think $30/year is very reasonable, and a great value for all the features I get. Heck, I spend more than that in gas in just one full day of caching You might have an idea of what it costs to run a car, but no idea what it costs to run a website. Comparing what it costs to run a website to your car just shows that. Spending $30 on a tank of gas doesn't mean thats what it costs to run a website.

You failed to mention the cost of your lifetime membership in geocaching.com. I can tell you though, depending upon your price proposal, and my personal assessment of the likelihood of any entity giving serious challenge to Groundspeak..........I'd do it in a heart beat. Thats my point, it doesn't matter where gc sets the "lifetime" price, when they are forced to reduce their rates for competition or other reasons, everyone will be screaming because they overpaid for the lifetime rate.

No, there's no confusion. I WANT them to show up in certain PQ's, so I don't check the box. The breakdown is that on pq previews they don't show (the bug, I didn't ask that they be filtered out), but they ARE in the final pq's that get emailed (as expected, since I didn't choose to filter them out). When you get two different sets of results from the same search criteria, that's a bug, even if you don't understand why I'm trying to use a particular filter.

So if everyone bought a lifetime membership now, and better cache listing sites come along and gc is forced to reduce their price to a more realistic (but still profitable) level of lets say $1/month or $12/year, how many of you will be upset because you overpaid for your lifetime membership and want a refund? Its a realistic question you should answer before even thinking about any lifetime membership. To compare it to something like a tivo, you can pretty much bet on a tivo having a lifetime of about 5 to 6 years on average (some will quit before, some will last longer, but on average, after 5 years that subscription is worthless since it can not be transferred to another piece of hardware)

This is still an issue.

My experience has been that multiple finds count in both of those places equally. Also retracted caches seem to keep an accurate count in both those places as well. I have both and my counts in both those places match and are accurate.

There's a lot of legit reasons, make sure it looks right in other programs like gsak, gpxsonar, make sure it looks right in your .gpx supported gps, all things any web author should do before releasing their work.

I have the same unit but my preference is still to have a nuvi in the car, that bigger screen and speech just works better for driving.

By true paperless, I assume you mean you want the whole cache description and probably some logs, right? With those two particular models (all extrex's and the 60csx) they just don't have the capability to store a whole lot of info. In both cases for true paperless, you would pretty much have to have another device (PDA of some sort) to hold the extra info. I used to use an etrex legend and a pda, now I use an Oregon and would never look back.

Huh, he posts on other sites, but not right here where most users look first. I'd love to hear the logic on this one.

Or even easier, if you have GSAK, is to clear all user flags (check marks), import your myfinds query with the option to set user flags, then filter on finds without the userflag set. This would leave just caches that you have marked as found in your db, but that gc didn't send to you in your myfinds pq, most likely because the logs were deleted. There's an ongoing thread about no longer getting emails when logs are deleted, so you could be the latest victim of that bug.

If I create a PQ (that does NOT have "are not on my ignore list" checked), and I put a cache on my ignore list, the cache does not show up on the PQ preview or google map preview (the bug) but it is included in the final PQ that gets emailed to me (as expected). For reference, this is a straight forward PQ with no options selected except a date range, I'm not filtering out founds, ignored, or anything, there are no check boxes or options selected on the form except date range, search radius, alternate email, and zip results, although I can duplicate the bug without a date range selected as well.

So the forums aren't regularly monitored for problems?

I support .gpx attatchment to notifications, and have asked for it in the past, but let me understand your reply here... Your OK with giving me the info for new stuff (agree here), but your against giving me info that would keep me from going after a cache that has been archived, so I still have that info on my gps and I end up pissing off some land owner or some one similar? This sounds contradictory to me.

Only in relation to other caches, the stages of your own cache can be as close as you want.

Since the OP isn't a premium member, I bet this isn't about bookmarks but rather about keyword searches. Keyword searches return results by date (or maybe gccode order), which is useless 99% of the time. Why do I care about a cache in Germany, just because its older, when I'm trying to find one up the street from my house?

An individual gpx will grab the last 20 posted logs plus all of your logs if they aren't already in the last 20.

Huh, I don't have any problems at all exporting from GSAK to my mobile device, which I run a couple different apps for geocaching. Takes me less than a couple minutes to load a couple thousand caches. And neither does my mobile device. You may only cache in urban areas, but when your out in middle of nowhere between mountains, getting a cell signal isn't exactly easy. This sounds more like a planning issue than a technology or software issue.

Except that most 3rd party software is there because of shortcomings in the gc site.

Yeah, they don't fit in all these new micros without oozing out some.

OK, 50 minutes later they finally ran.

I just copied and tried to run a couple PQ's, NONE have run (to clarify, no this isn't an email delivery question, the PQ's have not run).

You mean one cache? Then something isn't quite right (maybe the check box that says ignore logs before xx/xx?? I leave that box unchecked, since I let the macro delete the field notes after grabbing them there is no reason to leave it checked). I log multiple caches all the time. I'll log two or three (or more), use the macro to get the info in gsak, edit the notes on all the caches at once, then generate and upload the file to the site. I've never had an issue with multiple logs, even spread across multiple days.

Hey, that's an idea! Can I export a field note file into GSAK? (from a PN-40) Time to find those macros I have an Oregon (I believe the pn40 puts out the same format file for field notes). Using the FieldNotesImportAndLog macro: I import my notes from the gps into gsak (step one of the macro I use, I personally close the macro after this step). I clean up and expand my notes (my Oregon notes are often abbreviations and just two or three word logs), I can take as long as I want and internet isn't needed at this point. I then create and upload a fieldnotes file to the website (step 2 of the macro, the macro can be started again directly in step 2). From there I get a list of logs that I can click post, preview one last time, then save (takes less than a second or two per log).

Since it looks like your already using GSAK, why not just compose your logs there, then when you get them where you like them you can export them to a field notes file and upload that to the site? There are a couple different macros on the GSAK site to help with this.