DonB

If you are telling the whole story I'd just tell the guy he was a jerk for trying to get yours archived and you're not about to give up the spot. End of conversation.

At least you know for sure who has your coin, according to other cachers I'm about 99% sure a new cacher grabbed mine out of a cache in Texas and is apparently holding on to it and won't answer an email. It's too bad because the coin has almost 36,000 miles on it. In your case looking at who you could possibly mean given the details you have submitted if it was dizzy77 they appear to have been to every cache with a user called nastynelson an ex marine. Same caches on the same day. Now he has contact details which may help you contact dizzy if (due to being a new user the email notifications are not being received). They also appear (the details you submitted that is) to be connected to magnet man. Which by a happy coincidence is connected to the other possible person you could mean who also visited the cache hi tech granny. Who go caching together or have been as part of a 31 days caching challenge. I think magnet man is her son by what's she's posted on her logs. I doubt you mean her though. Worth a try. I thought her being a woman she would be more, for want of a better word, aware of right and wrong, so I emailed her and she wouldn't email me back either. I guess there's no sense in trying to email the other ones you mentioned, I've had enough frustration dealing with those people. I'll just consider the coin as gone. I think we're getting a whole new breed of people involved in geocaching, so It will be the last trackable I will release. What? Female means a better sense of right and wrong??? That's a major load of BS. Maybe it's just the females you know. I did get a response and my coin is on the move again.

Losing a TB or coin, to me is not the cost of the item, it's how many miles it's traveled. I have a coin from the "Great Train Race" that I was allowed to adopt after the race was over and even though it didn't cost me anything I would really hate to have it go missing because it has almost 36,000 miles on it.

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If you aren't moving and you don't have an electronic compass it won't show the direction the cache is in.

I have yet to have my older 76CSx lose the satellites under tree cover.

I don't know anyone that pulls their caches when winter comes. If they did I'm sure they would have to archive it. If you check the cache attributes for each cache, if the CO marks it, there is one that lists it as a winter friendly cache.

I don't know if it's true or not, but one school of thought is a refurbished unit is given individual attention by a technician so it could be better then a unit that comes off an assembly line.

I do my own routes with MapSource so I'm not familiar with the routes on Groundspeak, but what about downloading a route and editing it with MapSource or some other software package?

As far as I'm concerned the whole thing is a pain, set it one way or the other and leave it there.

At least you know for sure who has your coin, according to other cachers I'm about 99% sure a new cacher grabbed mine out of a cache in Texas and is apparently holding on to it and won't answer an email. It's too bad because the coin has almost 36,000 miles on it. In your case looking at who you could possibly mean given the details you have submitted if it was dizzy77 they appear to have been to every cache with a user called nastynelson an ex marine. Same caches on the same day. Now he has contact details which may help you contact dizzy if (due to being a new user the email notifications are not being received). They also appear (the details you submitted that is) to be connected to magnet man. Which by a happy coincidence is connected to the other possible person you could mean who also visited the cache hi tech granny. Who go caching together or have been as part of a 31 days caching challenge. I think magnet man is her son by what's she's posted on her logs. I doubt you mean her though. Worth a try. I thought her being a woman she would be more, for want of a better word, aware of right and wrong, so I emailed her and she wouldn't email me back either. I guess there's no sense in trying to email the other ones you mentioned, I've had enough frustration dealing with those people. I'll just consider the coin as gone. I think we're getting a whole new breed of people involved in geocaching, so It will be the last trackable I will release.

Consider yourself lucky, I have a coin that has over 35.000 miles on it and I'm pretty sure it's being held by a cacher in Texas. He or another cacher I'm told he caches with won't answer my emails.

Comparing a Nuvi to a GPS for caching is comparing apples to oranges, I don't know too many people that put their Nuvi in the off road mode to travel to a destination, people might object to them driving across their lawns. I'm not into numbers but I have found a little over 1100 caches without using a map in my GPS. If you read my post carefully I did say to each his own and that it was just my take on using maps.

Unless you are going to use the GPS for routing I see no need for maps to cache. I have yet to use a map in the GPS to cache, If I want to get an idea of the layout I use the maps on Groundspeak before I leave. But to each his own, just my take on it.

I'm looking into this issue at the moment, but I haven't been able to find anything out of the ordinary. Querying the database directly, the last_visit time for each user is updating properly and new posts are also being timestamped. They both use POSIX time and I believe those are the two important fields for determining new content. You mention a drop-down window to select a week of new content--how do I find that? Here's the easiest way to get to it. Look at the bottom right. http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=active

Normally if I check the forums every morning it will give me 4 or 5 new pages. The past two days it tells me no new content. If I go to the drop-down window and select 24 hours it tells me no new content, but if I choose week it will show me about 14 pages. Has anyone else ran into this?

At least you know for sure who has your coin, according to other cachers I'm about 99% sure a new cacher grabbed mine out of a cache in Texas and is apparently holding on to it and won't answer an email. It's too bad because the coin has almost 36,000 miles on it.

My findings also. Method one didn't seem logical when I read it, but thought I would give it a try. It's too bad MapSource doesn't work because I would prefer using it to create routes. The only way I could see MapSource working with GC would be to click a bunch of points every time the road curved or anytime there was a turn, and that would be a PITA.

What's frustrating is when you have a coin with almost 36,000 miles on it and shows it still in a cache but two people tell you it isn't and after doing a little detective work you are about 99% sure a new cacher has it and is holding it. Then you send him a polite email and he won't answer it. If it would have been one with just a couple of thousand miles on it, it wouldn't have been so bad. Also the coin wasn't one that I would call highly attractive or collectable, it was one of the survivors of the great train race from two or three years ago. I think I won't be turning anymore travelers loose.

For future reference. In the case of recovering files from your SD card you are O.K. running the recovery software on your computer. But if you would be trying to recover deleted files on your computer running recovery software on your computer would put you in danger of overwriting the files you are trying to recover. I have a memory stick set up with about 20 different portable software programs that can be ran on any computer, one of them being recovery software called recuva. It can be ran without any danger of overwriting anything. Just a heads up.

Thanks guys I'll try both methods. The routing choice is what threw me, logically I thought direct route would be like off road.

Normally I do my caches along a route on the geocaching site, but decided to try one using MapSource and exporting it as a GPX file. It was only 40 miles and ended up with 6 waypoints. The route looked fine on MapSource but when I uploaded it to create a PQ it showed the route point to point like an off road route. At first I got to thinking that I would have to add more points, but then realized that it would probably take them point to point also. Is there any way to tell it to follow the roads? From what I read it should work exporting a GPX file from MapSource or Basecamp.

You can do neither as a non-Premium Member. http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=175 Those things are PM benefits. As an aside, those named GPSr units would probably not accept PQ data. See my first post, I explained how to do it with the Hunt.

It's been awhile since I used a Hunt but if I remember right. The Ifinder Hunt uses usr files that are created buy a piece of free software you could get off the Lowrance site, I believe it was called GPXtoUSR. I would use bookmarks and then create a PQ, then I would run the software on the GPX file and it would create a USR file with the same name. Copy the USR files to the SD card which is under the batteries, and the GPS will find them. Most people didn't care for the system but one thing I liked about it was I would do a bookmark for each town in my caching area and create a USR file for each one. That way I could load just the caches for the town I was going to cache in that day but the other ones would be on the card also for another day.

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