newsboy5331

You are partly right but I doubt that it was intentional on HQ's part. We have spotted someone in our area awarding retrospective FPs to a family member and a friend on caches this cacher logged years ago, in one particularly blatant example on caches in a series that was archived five years ago. It seems you can award a FP on a cache at any time but you have to have actually logged it at some time in the past. You can't add a FP without having logged it already. Geocaching HQ could close this particular loophole for the future by restricting retrospective FP awarding to say a month, after the actual log.

Thank you so much for the heads up about the Map Preferences option. I always keep the sidebar collapsed so I had forgotten that it existed. I disliked the change but I thought it must be something I had done inadvertently. I have only just thought to check the Forums to see if any other members had experienced a change and as always there is someone who knows how to fix it. I don't much like the rest of the site changes either but at least I've got Google Maps back !

This is not a problem affecting just IE it is the same on Firefox. I don't use a Mac either. I have a Garmin GPSmap 62S and suddenly it cannot download caches from the map, only the cache page. I get the 'the plugin was not unlocked successfully' message. It's also the same with my old Etrex 10. Downloading from the cache page is much more cumbersome and it becomes very annoying if you have a lot to download. I know there are other ways of downloading caches but this is the way I choose to do it and up till now it has worked, but now it doesn't. I tried the usual remedies - uninstalling and reinstalling the Plugin but that didn't work. I also went to the lengths of unistalling and reinstalling Firefox thinking that the recent Firefox update might have caused the problem. Nothing doing, the problem continued, except it was worse because in that process I somehow lost my Bookmarks and had to spend time recovering from that. It seems clear that the problem is with geocaching.com, so please find a remedy that permanently solves the the problem and quickly because there are a lot of geocachers who are affected and it's very frustrating.

By circuits, what I mean is a series of caches which are placed on or near connected footpaths (trails) so that cachers can park up and enjoy a walk (or bike ride) in the outdoors and return to where they parked. Such circuits could have anything from five caches to as many as the CO thinks can be accommodated in the area available. A practical maximum, however, to allow for time constraints and cachers' stamina and to maintain interest and variety of hides and containers is probably of the order of 20/30. There are, of course, thousands of such circuits set out.I have experience only of the U.K. where our wonderful footpath network lends itself admirably to this type of cache setting, but I've no doubt it is available wherever geocaching is enjoyed. When you start to put your circuit on line you need somewhere to set out general comments about what prompted you to do the circuit, general comments about the terrain, its length, whether it is particularly suitable for some geocachers and not others , in short anything that pertains to the circuit as a whole. The only place this information can go is in the description and you immediately run up against the problem that the first section is limited to 500 characters which is never enough so you have to spill over into the second section. That in itself is a little odd but not a problem, but then what do you do ? You really only need this general information once so do you put it only on the page for the first cache ( as I do) or do you put it on every cache page as other COs have done. This seems to me to be a waste of time and resources. Its also illogical to put general information on the first cache page because it does not necessarily apply to that cache. When the circuit is published and cachers start to do the circuit they then come up against another problem. Where do they post their review ? Some include it on the last cache page, some on the first. They like to award a favourite point for the whole experience. Where do they put it ? First or last cache ? Neither might warrant a favourite point in itself so that distorts the favourite point system. So I come back to the reason for this suggestion. I think there should be a separate cache page for the circuit as a whole which could contain all the general comments, the review of the circuit as a whole and the favourite point if appropriate. It would need to list the caches which are part of the circuit and each of those would contain a link to the summary cache page. I have put this suggestion to Groundspeak Support directly and their response was that as it is a concept that affects many geocachers I should post it in the forums. So what do the rest of you think ?

Hi twilc33 Clicking the "Torn Page" in the address bar solved the problem. Thank you so much, it was driving me to distraction. newsboy 5331

Cache pages have sudddenly stopped responding properly. I've noticed three problems so far : 1/. The logs do not open automatically and can only be accessed by clicking view logbook. 2/. The decrypt hints facility does not work. This can only be accessed by clicking print underneath the coordinates strip. 3/. Cannot open the personal cache note facility. I have not fund a way to access this at all. Are these bugs or have I inadvertantly caused the pages not to respond properly and, if so, how can I put it right.

Curiously enough, despite having 76 waypoints appearing on my map page my Waypoint Manager displays only a list of 19. Weird, I've just checked my waypoint manager on my Etrex 20 and all 42 of my waypoints show up. Maybe the 10 works differently to the 20? Apparently with the Etrex 10 only 19 of the nearest waypoints to where you are at the time appear in the Waypoint Manager. To see all of the waypoints you have to go to the map. You can, however, do a spell search and you'll find any waypoint, but it won't be on the waypoint list unless it's amongst those nearest to you. I recently bought an etrex 10 and can confirm that having loaded about 30 caches onto it, when selecting go to and then geocaches it only displays the first 19. REALLY irritating if I want to navigate to any of the ones after the closest 19 using the etrex. I can view them on the map and then select one but that's very fiddly when I've loaded a bunch from the same area for a cache blitz... This feature on the eTrex 10 is confusing and a little irritating but you should find that as you mark earlier caches as found on the unit the hidden ones will appear.

Curiously enough, despite having 76 waypoints appearing on my map page my Waypoint Manager displays only a list of 19. Weird, I've just checked my waypoint manager on my Etrex 20 and all 42 of my waypoints show up. Maybe the 10 works differently to the 20? Apparently with the Etrex 10 only 19 of the nearest waypoints to where you are at the time appear in the Waypoint Manager. To see all of the waypoints you have to go to the map. You can, however, do a spell search and you'll find any waypoint, but it won't be on the waypoint list unless it's amongst those nearest to you. I recently bought an etrex 10 and can confirm that having loaded about 30 caches onto it, when selecting go to and then geocaches it only displays the first 19. REALLY irritating if I want to navigate to any of the ones after the closest 19 using the etrex. I can view them on the map and then select one but that's very fiddly when I've loaded a bunch from the same area for a cache blitz...

Curiously enough, despite having 76 waypoints appearing on my map page my Waypoint Manager displays only a list of 19. Weird, I've just checked my waypoint manager on my Etrex 20 and all 42 of my waypoints show up. Maybe the 10 works differently to the 20? Apparently with the Etrex 10 only 19 of the nearest waypoints to where you are at the time appear in the Waypoint Manager. To see all of the waypoints you have to go to the map. You can, however, do a spell search and you'll find any waypoint, but it won't be on the waypoint list unless it's amongst those nearest to you. I recently bought an etrex 10 and can confirm that having loaded about 30 caches onto it, when selecting go to and then geocaches it only displays the first 19. REALLY irritating if I want to navigate to any of the ones after the closest 19 using the etrex. I can view them on the map and then select one but that's very fiddly when I've loaded a bunch from the same area for a cache blitz...

I thought that might be the case. Thank you for confirming.

Has anyone come across this one ? Today I downloaded four caches to my eTrex10. I got the added successfully report but they did not appear on the device when I clicked on Where to and Geocaches. I tried them again and I got the already added report so I clicked to overwrite but still they weren't on the eTrex. I went into the Garmin GPS folder on my desktop and they were there. After phoning Garmin I tried adding the files manually using the GPX file button rather than the more direct Send to my GPS option but this did not work although the files were again in the desktop Garmin GPS folder. At the request of Garmin I sent them an email enclosing the files of the four geocaches that won't load properly. After sending the email I realised that the four geocaches were ones I had already found and logged as such on the eTrex (I had intended to take my grandchildren to find them this time) and I began to wonder if it is just not possible to download a cache to the eTrex that has already been recorded as found. This notion was reinforced when I attempted to download several caches that I had not found and they downloaded perfectly normally.

Hi, Thank you to the posters who replied to my request. The stranded Travel Bug has been rescued although it was not where I left it. I'm just pleased to know that it is on the move again to continue its wanderings.

I wonder if this explains why last week we found two cache containers in a phone box ? Perhaps the engineer removed the original and then some days later had second thoughts and returned it after the owner had replaced the missing original.

Hi Everyone, About two months ago in my early days of geocaching I placed a Travel Bug Dog Tag in a cache in Wiltshire called a Place to Retire (GCHC8Q). This is a rather special TB as it started out in the USA and has been going over 4 years, clocking up 27,000 miles to date. Being inexperienced at the game it was only later that I realised that this cache was not visited very often and so the TB is still languishing in its admittedly very pleasant woodland cache. It is too far away for me to go and rescue it so I'm wondering if there is some kind geocacher out there who is in the vicinity and can set the TB free to carry on its journey. Thank you.