tallyho22

I think what your asking is this, code, cache type, travel bugs, user flags, notes, lasy 4 logs,last log date, waypoint name, placed by,placed date, last found, container, difficulty, terrian, lat, lon, if not explain further I,m a little dense tonite

Vagabond do the majority of your hints come up with the hint info. I am down to one file with 132. I might try another PQ to see what happens. I too do not think it is the explorist. tallyho22 I go to menu, then poi's, then geocaches, then position, then to the cache I want the hint for, then that page gives me all the info of the cache I go to menu preference, then active set up go down to bottom and click geocaches I. pick which file . I click on nav until themap comes up and it shows me all the caches around one another. I move the cursor and press arrow and all info comes up about that cache. I do get hint info on caches but not the majority. I think it is in the gsak. Thanks for ur info because it list caches in alphabetical order. I did not know that. tallyho22 you can set it for nearest or alphabetical whichever you want, I keep mine set to nearest just move your click stick left or right to go to whichever you want Vagabond,If you use GSAK, could you please tell what info you have in the geocache description boxes. Tallyho22

Vagabond do the majority of your hints come up with the hint info. I am down to one file with 132. I might try another PQ to see what happens. I too do not think it is the explorist. tallyho22 I go to menu, then poi's, then geocaches, then position, then to the cache I want the hint for, then that page gives me all the info of the cache I go to menu preference, then active set up go down to bottom and click geocaches I. pick which file . I click on nav until themap comes up and it shows me all the caches around one another. I move the cursor and press arrow and all info comes up about that cache. I do get hint info on caches but not the majority. I think it is in the gsak. Thanks for ur info because it list caches in alphabetical order. I did not know that. tallyho22 you can set it for nearest or alphabetical whichever you want, I keep mine set to nearest just move your click stick left or right to go to whichever you want

Vagabond do the majority of your hints come up with the hint info. I am down to one file with 132. I might try another PQ to see what happens. I too do not think it is the explorist. tallyho22 I go to menu, then poi's, then geocaches, then position, then to the cache I want the hint for, then that page gives me all the info of the cache I go to menu preference, then active set up go down to bottom and click geocaches I. pick which file . I click on nav until themap comes up and it shows me all the caches around one another. I move the cursor and press arrow and all info comes up about that cache. I do get hint info on caches but not the majority. I think it is in the gsak. Thanks for ur info because it list caches in alphabetical order. I did not know that. tallyho22

Vagabond do the majority of your hints come up with the hint info. I am down to one file with 132. I might try another PQ to see what happens. I too do not think it is the explorist. tallyho22

you can have as many files on your sd card as you want just keep them to 200 caches or less, I just counted my geocache files and have 23 on the sd card, and all of them are between 150 and 200 caches. The only time hints don't show up for me is if there is no hint I found how to delete six of the seven. now I have one file of 132 caches. However, there is quite alot that does not have hints attached. I think the majority should because on the cache page they do have a hint attached Tallyho22

you can have as many files on your sd card as you want just keep them to 200 caches or less, I just counted my geocache files and have 23 on the sd card, and all of them are between 150 and 200 caches. The only time hints don't show up for me is if there is no hint

Hummm... I'm a complete newbie in Explorists but for sure they show more 20 characters on hints. I had that idea and just grabbed mine to take a second look. Here is a hint of a Geocache, copied of my Explorist: PT - 20m a Sul da ponte escada acimaENG - 20 - sou That makes 38 characters not considering spaces or 49 with spaces. Obviously I had kept a wrong (and optimistic) number of 200 but things are not so bad as 20. Sorry, my mistake. I did a search of the forum and from what I can find, it looks like the hint is limited to 50 characters. Most of the hints I have looked at are much shorter than that, so I have rarely hit against the 50 character limit. Tallyho, can you give us a GC code for a cache (or caches) you are having problems viewing the hint? GCXKGF and GVQRZ Because I have 7 files on the SD card do you think that this excede 200 caches and a lot of the hints do not show up. If the cache page has a hint, should the hint show up. How do I delete the 6 files I do not need. Would this help. Also I have gsak on my laptop and would like to download it on my large computer but everytime I go to register it shows up as a new regis. No place for my name or serial number. Did go to thr help-contents-register but can not find the correct screen. any ideas. Tallyho22

Hummm... I'm a complete newbie in Explorists but for sure they show more 20 characters on hints. I had that idea and just grabbed mine to take a second look. Here is a hint of a Geocache, copied of my Explorist: PT - 20m a Sul da ponte escada acimaENG - 20 - sou That makes 38 characters not considering spaces or 49 with spaces. Obviously I had kept a wrong (and optimistic) number of 200 but things are not so bad as 20. Sorry, my mistake. I did a search of the forum and from what I can find, it looks like the hint is limited to 50 characters. Most of the hints I have looked at are much shorter than that, so I have rarely hit against the 50 character limit. Tallyho, can you give us a GC code for a cache (or caches) you are having problems viewing the hint?

Hummm... I'm a complete newbie in Explorists but for sure they show more 20 characters on hints. I had that idea and just grabbed mine to take a second look. Here is a hint of a Geocache, copied of my Explorist: PT - 20m a Sul da ponte escada acimaENG - 20 - sou That makes 38 characters not considering spaces or 49 with spaces. Obviously I had kept a wrong (and optimistic) number of 200 but things are not so bad as 20. [/ I downloaded 132 caches and about 50% have hints info attach to them. I feel great that I can do that. But was wondering why more did not show more of the hints. If you go to the individual cache page you will find the hint info. thanks for any info on this. I like the explorist even more now that I am getting to know more how to transfer data to it rather than bringing along paper notes. Tallyho

Thanks for the info. Tried but it seems that I can not transfer the info from gsak to gps. When I go to my computer and removable E which is the gps and click on geocahes I do not see the new file from GSAK. I would greatly appreciate any ideas. Tallyho I did ittttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt. Now after hours of trying I can now appreciate the explorist 500 with hints downloaded. I do not need paper with info when walking on the trails. However, some hints do not show on the screen but the majority show up when I click on hints. Any ideas why all the hints do not show. I know these caches have hints by going to the actual page. This made my day. Tallyho22

Thanks for the info. Tried but it seems that I can not transfer the info from gsak to gps. When I go to my computer and removable E which is the gps and click on geocahes I do not see the new file from GSAK. I would greatly appreciate any ideas. Tallyho

I just looked at my email and download PQ and the 60 caches were on the gsak spreadsheet. That was so great to see after days of trying. However i have been trying to download to my gps and now having problems. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. I have an explorist 500. Thanks Tallyho22

I just downloaded 60 caches to gsak. finally they all came up on gsak spread sheet. however, I think they are in loc instead of gpx. How do I get tese catches to gpx. thanks Tallyho22

I just downloaded 60 caches to gsak. finally they all came up on gsak spread sheet. however, I think they are in loc instead of gpx. How do I get tese catches to gpx. thanks Tallyho22

It seems when I download a group of caches , GSAK data base is missing info like last found and date. When I download an individual cache and click on gpx more info comes up on the spreadsheet. I have tried to read other topics but getting deeper in trouble. Please help, I just found my first cache last week. tallyho22

i have an explorist 500. found my forst cache today. great find for me but could not find hint info on cache. is it possible to download hint info when downloading several caches. tallyho22

You need to use Pocket Queries in order to get bulk caches in GPX format. The file will be emailed to you. It's not a download.

I have an explorist 500 and gsak and downloading from geocaching .com. When I download thw cach info to the gps I can not receive any info on the hint section. Could someone please help me. I am wondering if it is possible to do this. tallyho

How can I download the hint to my gps? I use swak and whenI download the cache from geocaching .com it reads no hint but there is a hint on the cache page tallyho22

I think whta you mean by value is what the box reads.geocache/new geocache documents(2) gs Yes, I mean what's in the box. What you have wouldn't work. As I said in a previous post, you need to have the entire path including the drive letter for GSAK to know exactly where to write the file. In the example I gave of how GSAK does it on my system M: is the drive letter for my GPS, Geocaches is the folder on the SD card I want the file to be in, and York.gs is the name of the file. After GSAK writes the file, when I look in the geocaches folder in my 500's SD card, York.gs is there and it has data. Also there should be a period (".") just before the gs, not a space. I'd suggest naming your file something shorter so you can see the whole file name on the explorist screen. "New geocache documents(2).gs" is pretty long and not very descriptive. In my example, York is the city centered in the cache file, so it tells me where the caches are concentrated. I did it and it worked. i put a name for the file and whwn I selected it all the caches opened on the screen. Boy was I surprised. Thanks for all your help and staying in there for me while I straightened out my problem. Going to look for a cache very shortly. Thanks again, appreciate it and hope if anyone else out there with a magellan can follow the teps you did for me. Byron Tallyho

I think whta you mean by value is what the box reads. geocache/new geocache documents(2) gs

My file to create file readsE. geocache/new geocachs document(2)gs. This afternoon I was going through the gps and clicked on about and the memory cme with internal memory 565 with half of the bar darken in. The SD memory was clear across the bar scale. should the SD memory show atleast some memory stored. Still no results. Byron Oh boy, I have something. when i go to preference and select active it comes uo under geocaches NEW gcache Document (2) when i click on that it comes up select file, I click on that and it comes up on the top screen it reads SD/geocaches\ and below that is up one level and under that is new gache document when i click on that it brings me back to active set up. I can not find any data in any of the files. At this point do you think gsak is the problem. I checked the little boxes next to the 20 caches that I downloaded. It shows on the top of the gsak unregistered. Just a thought. Byron

My file to create file readsE. geocache/new geocachs document(2)gs. This afternoon I was going through the gps and clicked on about and the memory cme with internal memory 565 with half of the bar darken in. The SD memory was clear across the bar scale. should the SD memory show atleast some memory stored. Still no results. Byron