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You mean so you can search for caches that are months, if not longer, out of date and are now archived? So far any "update kit" seems to be vapor-ware, and there doesn't appear to be a real way to update the unit. Even when it does come out, there is no indication of costs, is there a regular fee to get updates? Are you limited to how often or how much data? None of these questions have been answered that I can see.

Your virus scanner is renaming it: http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/efw

Why not just reschedule the original one to run again? The PQ generator seems to be running really fast lately and you should have no problem getting it again this week. Because PQ's that have run recently don't always generate right away, and being close to midnight I didn't want to chance it not running or chance it lapping. Plus I wanted them right away.

One more note, I usually only copy my "template" (never been run) pq's so I don't know that this is a new bug or if its been around. I do know that in the last "release notes" it was stated which would infer that it wasn't touched with today's release.

No, none of the pq's I was trying to copy were archived, all were normal pq's, (not along a route pq's, and nothing real special about them) In both cases the pq had run within the last week, but I wanted to pull fresher pq's because I knew things in the area changed significantly. I went back and tried to copy several and none that have run in the past week would copy. The only other pq's I have are either fresh (never run, just there as a template) or were last run in 2008, all of those seem to copy.

When trying to copy a recently run PQ, I get this message in red across the top of the PQ list page: The name "CacheCountLastGenerated" is not permitted in this context. Valid expressions are constants, constant expressions, and (in some contexts) variables. Column names are not permitted. This doesn't happen if I copy a PQ that has never run or a PQ that hasn't run recently.

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Unlikely. In fact its a common complaint to get double emails when you have a combination of notifies, owner or watchlist emails, so if you setup a notify that happens to cover a cache you own, expect to get double emails, one for being owner, one for the notify.

There is a high probability that this is related to the PQ threads about getting the PQ emails, people in those threads are also complaining about missing owner/notify/watchlist emails. It looks like the majority of outbound emails are not actually going out.

As long as they keep getting paid they have no incentive to fix any of the real problems. Maybe a mass canceling of accounts might get their attention. There's only been ONE single posting by anyone that could at least pick up a phone to have someone look at it, and honestly I don't believe his posting. No other moderator or "lackie" has stepped in, despite multiple threads complaining about both missing PQ's and missing owner, notify, and watch list emails. There is very clearly an undeniable problem here, yet by all indications, gc has chosen to deny it (yeah, thanks for nothing Michael, you had a chance to do the right thing and you didn't).

Your "test" might have run but there are way too many people complaining, add me to the list, for there not to be a real problem.

I don't know about the 500 specifically, but proximity alerts and tour guide are two separate features. The 200 doesn't support tour guide either but has no problem with proximity alerts.

Setup System Interface Choose Garmin Spanner Now when you plug it in it will ask if you want to go into Mass Storage. Choose no when your in your car.

Useless answer, if they aren't usable, then they may as well not be there.

Not to an API, which is what this thread is really about.

Since I have a phone from a real carrier, and the iphone is locked to a worthless carrier, yeah, thats all I could use it for, but oh wait, if I can't get a working signal, nope, can't even use it then.

Wow these comments are so wrong and incredibly off base. Lets see: iphone=$399 monthly cost for 2 years locked in contract=$60/month Total 2 year cost not including gc.com fee: $1,839 plus taxes. Plus another $10 for the iphone app. Now your locked in with the 2nd worse carrier out there for two years, it won't work when your in a "weak area" (which seems to define about 90% of my area) and even though your contract says no roaming, your monthly bill is pretty much guaranteed to be hit with another $20/month in roaming fee's, bringing total cost up another $500 for 2 years for a total of over $2,300. Now you have another piece of equipment to worry about that isn't "ruggedized" like a typical gps, isn't waterproof, and will probably require replacement after your first or second caching trip. So go ahead and figure on replacing it a couple times too the first time it starts raining while your out caching, or the first time you slip and fall in a creek, or the first time your walking on a trail and a branch whacks back and either hits the screen or makes you drop it and the screen cracks anyway. This could easily be another grand in costs. Yeah, thats only a $10 one time charge to some one that can't do basic math. A well written API would have a lot of benefit and could reduce the PQ load as well without locking into certain carriers or otherwise useless pieces of hardware.

Most cell phone sms plans have an email address attatched to them, usually something like: 2223334444@text.provider.com Who is your provider? Someone here will probably know the specifics for your provider.

Go to the cache page and choose the ignore option again is a quick way to change your ignore status for a particular cache.

As long as your using good fresh NiMH and more importantly a good charger you should be OK. Do: Use fresh batteries Use a good high quality charger that charges each cell separately Use a slow charging rate to charge your batteries (200-250 mA is a good rate) Use the "refresh" mode on your charger occasionally, even for brand new batteries Don't: Use old batteries Use a "fast" charger Use a cheap charger that charges a set amount of time (most sold retail do) Use any charger that charges batteries as "pairs" (most sold retail do) Use batteries rated less than 2400 mAh Use generic branded batteries, they NEVER have the rated capacities

The default backlight level is just too low to be useful in most situations. It just increases it. My testing and other reports I've found show that this makes little difference in battery life. You sure made it sound like the cure-all for the screen, but you merely turned on the light? Yes, its that simple. There seems to be paranoia that the backlight will somehow run the batteries down in 2 minutes or something and people just can't accept otherwise. My own testing and valid tests I've seen others post clearly show that with good batteries, the backlight makes very little difference on battery life and even with the backlight on all the time the Oregon still outlasts that other gps that everyone seems stuck on this week that apparently does kill the battery if used for more than a couple minutes.

When I look at your profile, it shows 251 finds, when I flip through them I count that 16 are archived, that leaves 235 active caches that you found, since this is only off by 1, I probably miscounted. Based on that, it looks like your running a normal PQ and checking the "that I've found" box. Running a normal PQ like that will never return archived caches. If you want to run a PQ thats guaranteed to contain all your finds, you have to run the special PQ at the bottom of the page, just click the button that says "add to queue" and you should get a PQ that includes all of your finds, regardless of archive or published status.

They ARE NOT doing this openly, the only reason they got caught with their hand in the cookie jar is because the 3rd party pixel server timed out and a user complained about it.

So that gc.com can learn more about us. I have no clue why you'd need to do that on a forum that's relatively narrow-scoped. http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/info...+Quantcast+Info The general reasons for needing to know that type of info falls into two catagories: * GC.COM is planning on selling massive amounts of advertising * GC.COM is planning on selling out. Sadly, as poorly as the site is being run now, I don't think this would be a positive move.

The real question here is why is gc.com sharing our traffic info with 3rd parties.