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  1. I'm not sure if this post should be part of the Nov 2, 2023 website changes thread or in this forum. If it needs to be moved to the other thread, please do so or let me know and I'll repost there. I disabled one of my caches yesterday (1/1/24) but realized afterwards it got logged with the wrong date (I wanted 12/31/23). I can't remember if I changed the date to 12/31/23 or if the system automagically defaulted to the current date and I had no choice. Either way, I tried to edit the log to 12/31/23 afterwards and realized I'm not allowed to now. What's up with that? Really it's not that critical but this is annoying. Is that behavior by design now or is there another way I need to edit the log now? Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
  2. Thank you. Good (and bad?) to know it's not just me. Hopefully HQ fixes the bug (and the rest of the ones listed in this forum) now.
  3. I'm disappointed by this "bug". For me anyways, one of my beefs even about the old log UI was it wouldn't allow you to italicize or bold portions of a word using markdown. You could only put the * or ** markdown codes at the beginning and end of words or phrases in order to make them work (essentially there needed to be a space before the "start" markdown and after the "end" markdown) so the whole word or phrase would get italicized or bolded. I was happy when I tested this new GUI and saw in the preview it could italicize and bold individual letters, portions of a word. And now you're saying it won't get put in the actual log. How disappointing. Hopefully this gets fixed.
  4. Is it just me or have I discovered another bug with this UI change? Has anyone else tried to edit a reviewer note since this change? I wanted to correct some spelling, grammar, etc on an existing reviewer note I already "saved" for an unpublished cache but couldn't. I thought it was just me the first time but it's happened again now (grrr) on a completely different cache.
  5. Yes! I believe that works. I just tested and it looks like that shows me what I'm looking for (the category "thumbnail"/icon). Thank you, GeoCharmer81.
  6. My apologies if this question has been asked and answered already. Hopefully this is a simple question with a simple answer. :-) I was wondering if there is any way to find out what icon a trackable has without having to activate it. Is there a trick to find out that I don't know? Thanks.
  7. Same problem here, since this afternoon (~12 hrs ago). I sure wish someone from HQ would acknowledge the problem. I hope they fix it soon. I'm trying to add images to a cache that I want to publish.
  8. BTW, I also know of a cacher who's hidden their information from 3rd party vendors, including GSAK. When I download my logs from my caches into GSAK, this is what I see. <logged date> By opted-out user (Found=0 Hidden=0, as of 2022.03.05) Content unavailable. This user has opted-out of sharing certain information with API Authorized Developers. On the GC.com website, everything is visible though. Hopefully that answers your question.
  9. Woo hoo! Thank you for your help. I found the Get recent logs option under the Geocaching.com access menu in GSAK and that did the trick for me. I didn't know there was that feature in GSAK. I was only aware of importing logs into GSAK via PQ before this. Now, my next step is trying to figure out to export all the logs' "header" data out of GSAK for my analysis. That'll be a question for the GSAK forums probably. Thank you for all your help. :-)
  10. Hi there - I was wondering if there is any way to export specific details from all the logs from a subset of my caches. Basically I'm looking for everything but the actual log content; :-b in other words, I'm mainly interested in the date of the log, who logged it, and the type of log. I'm trying to generate some stats for curiosity and other nefarious reasons ;-) (not really) for some of my challenge caches. As far as I know, pocket queries only collect the 5 newest logs so that won't work unless I collected the data right from the beginning (and regularly) which I didn't do. Is there a better way than manually collecting this data? Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
  11. I found out the answer to my own question so I thought I would post the solution here for future 'ask-ers'. I ended up posting the same question in the Project-GC forums (after also asking GS who didn't have a solution for me either) and someone replied with an answer. They pointed me towards the Top Finders link found under the Statistics menu on the top of Project-GC home page. From there, if you have a custom bookmark list with all the caches in question on GC.com, you can "get" that list and Project-GC will show you all the finders of those caches. A great working solution that can be run anytime you want. Thank you Project-GC. :-)
  12. HI there - I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this but I have an idea for a cache that needs some info from other caches. I would like to be able to see who has found a specific set of caches. Is there any way to get that kind of info easily and regularly? I don't care about when they found the cache, or what they wrote in their log; I'm only interested in which cachers have found the caches. Ideally, I'm hoping there's a macro or script that outputs a list that shows "Cacher x has found y number of these caches", based on a list of caches I've inputted. I'm hoping to keep this list current as well, on a semi-regular basis, hence why I'm hoping for a way that is as automated as possible. I've tried searching GSAK and Project-GC so far but haven't found anything yet. I'm guessing a Project-GC challenge checker script could be written to output this info but this is not for a challenge. Does anyone know of any way to do this? Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
  13. Heheh Yeah, I was trying to find a picture that was more "in the public domain" vs one that might cause privacy issues so I figured the Mars Rover pic was the best option. :-) Thank you for tracking down this information. It certainly sheds some more light on this. But now I'd like to know what the use cases are for all these different versions of the file (other than the thumbnail). ie. When I'm linking to a picture on my cache page, which "format" should I use, especially when large/_l seems to do inconsistent things to different images? And why doesn't display/_d work for jpg files then? Still very weird. At least _d has been somewhat explained now so thank you. :-) And it appears _l doesn't mean low res any more either. I just wish this information was documented somewhere too. I'll keep doing some digging to see what else I can figure out. The truth is out there... ;-)
  14. Thanks for the great discussion so far. I've been talking to another cacher about this and they discovered another suffix too. _t appears to be used for the thumbnail version of a picture. Here's an example of a png file that "supports" _l, _d, and _t. You can add them "randomly" which leads me to think it's the same image file no matter what but has something more to do with how the picture is processed/evaluated but what do I know? I'm no web or graphics expert. :-b <<https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/ae3c7301-33ae-4c46-a31d-c2a8611b36d2.png>>
  15. Hi there - My apologies for the cryptic title but I didn't know what else to call it. I also don't know if this is the right location for this topic but I'm not sure where it really fits. If it needs to be moved to somewhere else, please let me know. I am already aware of the _l ending for image files, and I believe that represents a low res version of the picture. Today I came across a png file on the GC website with a _d ending. Does anyone know what that means? As far as I can tell, it just seems to mean a smaller sized picture. Is that all though? It appears the _d doesn't work on jpg files either. So strange. Could someone in the know please let me know? :-) Thanks. I'm just trying to understand when/where I should be using the various formats of images on the website. Does anyone else know if there are other "_x" out there? Thank you in advance.
  16. YES! Woo hoo! This appears to work. I was wondering the same thing but I've tested it now and it looks like I'm good to go. Thank you for your (prompt) help. :-)
  17. I ran into some technical issues when I tried to post this before so this may be a duplicate post. Please ignore and remove this one if it is. Thanks. ================================ Hi there - I'm trying to put out a cache that has a picture but I want the picture to be a surprise so that people only see it when they click on the right link. However when I upload the picture to the actual cache, it shows up in the gallery and is listed at the bottom of the description as well. I don't want it to be visible there (or anywhere else ideally). Is there a "official" solution to hiding the picture somehow? As far as I know you're not allowed to use 3rd party hosting sites any more so I didn't even bother trying. I've also read some forum posts that talk about adding the picture to an archived cache instead and then using a link for it in my new cache but my concern is the picture is still "visible" in that archived cache. People could come across it accidentally there (or maybe on purpose). Is there any other options out there or is there a setting somewhere that hides pictures from the gallery and the cache description listing? I was thinking about maybe loading the picture into my unpublished archived cache because, as far as I know, no one else can see those caches, but I can't edit those archived caches to add any pictures. Plus I'm not sure if the website will allow other people to see those pictures anyways. ie I'd be able to see the picture because I have rights or permissions to my unpublished caches but no one else does. I also considered loading pictures via a Reviewer Note on my new cache and linking to them from there. Those Reviewer Notes get "removed" when the cache is published but do any pictures associated to those logs get deleted too? Or would the links keep working? It's hard to test all these things out obviously so I'm hoping someone knows the more official way of doing this. I don't want to implement something that may suddenly break a few years later either when GS changes a policy, like the 3rd party hosting thing. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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