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  1. My PQs have been taking anything between 12 to 36 hours (if they arrive at all, that is). Today... 3 minutes! I was that surprised that I almost deleted it in error. AND I'm on AOL just to make it even more peculiar. Have things improved or was it a fluke? I'll let you know next week when I send my next one...

  2. A huge congratulations to The Mars Bars on reaching 999 earlier today. Very well done to you all! :)

    Oh. they also reached 1000 on the 5/5 Rakers of the Lost Ark but that's only an insignificant number so no conrats there eh, Dave? ;)

    Good job I wasn't there to "help" you or it would have been an embarrassing dnf :cry: .

  3. Wouldn't life be good if somebody had the idea to put an output on the gps device so that you could plug it directly into the pda and not have to bother with bluetooth? Would'nt that also save on battery power? Go on somebody, have that idea... :laughing:

  4. As a roving engineer I used to go all over the country to jobs. When the apprentice was driving, I'd be on the map (long before tom tom) I used to torment him by going all sorts of dfferent routes to avoid fictitious obstacles such as the staple in the mapbook centre, a crease or tear in the page. I also convinced him that when he read the map he must keep it as flat as possible or with only a slight incline to keep North up! If held the other way we be in serious trouble or if held straight up we'd not be able to climb the page when heading North or go too fast when going South - Honest! He worked with me for 3 months before he ceased to believe what I was telling him.

    Ahhhh! the torment of it all...........

     

    Off topic sorry, Carlos

     

    So that's why we were going round in circles the other week trying to find the best route during our night time caching. Bloomin' typical! :P

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    Related is Haweswater Reservoir which feeds water into the Thirlmere Aquaduct at Watchgate. I have a series of caches around the lake: Mardale Madness (shameless cache promotion B))

     

    HTH

     

    They certainly have got a series of caches there and an absolute classic it is too, one of our all time favs B). It must be good because it totally occupied Mrs gingerbreadman and myself for a while by making us drive up to the Lakes on three consecutive weekends to finish it. Was it worth it? You bet your sweet bibby it was.

    Get up there, you will not be disapointed .

  6. Huge congrats to Pop Up Pirate who reached 400 today and Carlos and the Birdie Crew on their 300th t'other day and also LollyBob for 700 up. They may not be significant numbers for some but it is for them (and us too).

     

    It's actually nearer to 1000 for PUP as he's visited each one at least 3 times whilst escorting the older breathren amongst us up hill and down dale but he's being very modest in his achievements.

     

    Well done, all, and here's to your next centuries.

  7. Does anybody know of any bookmark lists of unusual caches that would be suitable for a landmark find? I was hoping to find something that may require the use of a small boat or something else "out of the ordinary" etc.

    The cache would have to be suitable for an elderly gent approaching his 1000th find :D

  8. I get the same problem and it is down to the userdata file as rutson says. The userdata file only updates when the memory map program on the PPC is closed via the menu (Menu > Exit).

     

    When you load your waypoints into MM in the first instance, and you are happy they are showing, close the program down. This will update the userdata file, so that if and when it crashes and you do a soft reset, the overlay will still be there when you open memory map.

     

    Tigs

     

    Phew, many thanks, that seems to have done the trick. I didn't have to exit mem map before when I needed to do a soft re-set, but who cares, it seems to be working now. I'm almost as pleased as Mrs gingerbreadmen who now won't have to suffer me whinging on about how life's not fair all evening.

    Once again, many thanks (and fingers crossed!).

    Andy

  9. Hi, tried that and the same thing still happens I'm afraid. I deleted Mem Map from the pda yesterday along with all of the maps, reloaded it all but again, no change. I wonder if it would help if I chucked it in the canal and bought a new one? B)

     

    Did you "delete" it via Active Sync or from the PDA menu?

     

    Can make a difference.

     

    From the pda, should it should be via Active sync?

  10. I notice neither LollyBob nor Pop Up Pirate have appeared on this thread yet. Something is afoot methinks. hmmmm B)

     

    Not me :P Mind, you've replied so that only leaves Mr Mars Bar B)B):PB)

     

    I have to admit that I did think it was lead boots PUP!

     

     

    I did ask the aged chocolate bar about this but he denies all knowledge about it, mind you, he agrees with me that this has the mark of a LollyBob or a PopUp about it :P .

    If she'd been wearing pink then there would be no doubt about it whatsoever eh Lolly? :ph34r:

  11. Sorry, not got PDA to hand, but had a simliar problem once.

     

    MM stores waypoint and suchlike in a file called userdata.mmo (OR SIMILAR!). If auto generates a backup file with a similar name userdata.bak (maybe...).

     

    Now then, I think my backup file was corrupt and it kept restoring it after a soft reset.

     

    I solved it by soft reseting, to make 100% sure MM wasn't running, then deleting BOTH these files and sending waypoints from the PC again.

     

    YMMV

     

    Hi, tried that and the same thing still happens I'm afraid. I deleted Mem Map from the pda yesterday along with all of the maps, reloaded it all but again, no change. I wonder if it would help if I chucked it in the canal and bought a new one? B)

  12. I use Memory Map on my pda to go paperless caching. From GSAK I export Mem Map and HTML files; when I want to see the details of a particular cache I simply touch the screen and up pops the log - no problem there then.

    I also have my pda connected (via bluetooth) to a gps, often whilst out caching this connection crashes so I have to perform a soft reset on the pda, a bit of a pain but as all the info is still on the pda it's not the end of the world.

    However, over the past two days I have found that whenever I perform a soft reset and go back into Mem Map all my icons have disapeared and I have to connect the pda back to my computer to re-download, obviously this isn't exactly possible in the middle of nowhere.

    I now find myself facing the prospect of buying a couple of reams of paper to get out and about again.

    Any ideas on what may be wrong and how I could fix it? I don't really want to perform a hard reset and go through all of my initial problems trying to set various programmes up again that I had when I first got the machine, but if that's what it takes...

    Any help (and it has to be in very easy, baby steps) would be much appreciated.

    Ta

  13. MarsBars (for always digging at Andy and for looking appen Pretty in Pink),

     

    I've never knowingly had a dig at the old git! :D .... anyway he started it.....didn't ya Grandad. :angry:

     

    Cheers

    Dave

     

    I can take it from the bitter and twisted one. he's only jealous cos I'm younger, taller, slimmer, fitter, am allowed to drink alcohol and eat chocolate AND have a better understanding of the internal gubbins of gps's, pdas and computers.

    OK, so he looks better in pink but that's cos he wears that colour all the time at home (his good lady told me!) :angry:

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