+VWDave Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Is the Pocket Query working for anyone else? All of mine have been deleted and when I create them new they don't run or show up as queries. Link to comment
Keystone Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 I received all my regularly scheduled queries today, and haven't seen any other general PQ complaints recently. If the problem persists, please submit a support ticket to Groundspeak, and/or bump one of the PQ threads over in the Geocaching.com Web Site forum, where one of the developers will see it. Link to comment
Motorcycle_Mama Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Working fine over here. Link to comment
+firennice Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 all is well here as well Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 I only got one of the queries that I ran yesterday, the rest never came in. Fortunately, I managed to have enough info to get through the day. Link to comment
+Sagefox Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Last night at 10 pm I ran 5 PQs for Friday and 5 more for Saturday. They all came through. Link to comment
+gpsfun Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 I created two new PQs and ran them this morning with the results appearing within a couple of minutes. Link to comment
+Zatahra Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 working fine here too! Link to comment
+Buggheart Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I tried creating one for the first time today and nothing seemed to happen so I assume it's not working for me either. But then I have no idea what I'm doing so I could have done it wrong I guess. Link to comment
+sportside Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I tried running a one Wed, one Thurs, and one today. I have received nothing... Used different email addresses for them too to rule that out, as well as adding the email addresses to my add book. Nothing... Maybe I'm doing something wrong... Link to comment
+mtn-man Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 (edited) hockeychik.com ran one today and it came right away. Moved to the GC.com Web Site Forum. Edited October 26, 2008 by mtn-man Link to comment
+WeightMan Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 (edited) I tried creating one for the first time today and nothing seemed to happen so I assume it's not working for me either. But then I have no idea what I'm doing so I could have done it wrong I guess. Check your PQ page to see if it ran. While you are there, click on the preview icon and see what the results are. Edit for spelling Edited October 26, 2008 by WeightMan Link to comment
+sportside Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Well, I found my problem... never agreed to the terms and conditions Went to PQs tonight, there is the link. Just ran one, took 30 seconds to get... Link to comment
+VWDave Posted October 26, 2008 Author Share Posted October 26, 2008 My PQ page doesn't exist either, No PQ's, although I had about 20 or so. Link to comment
+VWDave Posted October 26, 2008 Author Share Posted October 26, 2008 been using PQ's since joining in May 07. Just went to the page like sportside did. Looked at agreement and checked it. Guess what all of my PQ's are there gain. Link to comment
+Buggheart Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Well, I found my problem... never agreed to the terms and conditions Went to PQs tonight, there is the link. Just ran one, took 30 seconds to get... Turns out I did the same thing. Duh But I tried setting it up again and it still didn't work. Off to find some sort of detailed instructions cuz I just ain't gettin it. Link to comment
+Gan Dalf Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 So where do you go to agree to the terms and conditions? I don't think I am having the same problem. My PQ's are all there and viewable. I was ablt to run My Finds yesterday just fine but this morning I set a PQ to run and now, 7 hours later it still has not. The last time I ran this particular PQ was 4 days ago so that is not an issue. Is there some other criteria that sets when a PQ gets run? Usually it takes less than 5 minutes. Link to comment
Motorcycle_Mama Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 (edited) Turns out I did the same thing. Duh But I tried setting it up again and it still didn't work. Off to find some sort of detailed instructions cuz I just ain't gettin it. Here are some instructions. http://www.markwell.us/pq.htm Edited October 27, 2008 by Motorcycle_Mama Link to comment
+Corey Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Off to find some sort of detailed instructions cuz I just ain't gettin it. http://markwell.us/pq.htm Link to comment
+Sniffer Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 OK Got a problem with PQ's at the moment, everytime I submit a query to run by checking the day of the week that the server says it is, when I submit the query all I get is a message saying the query has been modified, I am sure I used to get a message saying it has been generated, when I go back to my PQ page the tick is still there. No email comes through at all Am I being dumb or something? Please help Regards Sniffer Link to comment
+Tequila Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 My PQ's for Friday did not run. I got one of three. Link to comment
+billandlore Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Haven't received mine either. Glad the Oregon is still loaded. Link to comment
+padlinfool Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 (edited) None today here strike that just got some copies of my standard run Edited November 8, 2008 by padlinfool Link to comment
+Tequila Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 A query that should have come in yesterday at noon, finally just came in. Of course, it now counts against today's limit of 5. Link to comment
+bamadaisy5 Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I submitted a request for a PQ about an hour ago and it still has not gone through. This is the second time it has happened prior to me about to head out to an event and day of caching and it's very frustrating. Link to comment
+ShadowHawk Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Mine have not run since the 5th of November. I've tried manually turning them on, and they appear to go into the daily queue, however, they do not run, email to me, or turn off of the screen. I'm hoping Groundspeak is aware... Link to comment
+Folshen Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I only have one PQ that is set to run and though its tagged for Friday's it never arrived until one o'clock today...but, at least I got it. Link to comment
+Teddy2k Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Maybe the PQ server is backlogged again? My PQs set to run on Thursday ran on Friday morning and my Friday PQ's are just coming through now (Saturday morning).... these are all PQs that haven't been run for 2-3 days, so it's not like they're being delayed because they are being run every day. Link to comment
+Tequila Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 This seems to be happening more and more often. Link to comment
+GeekBoy.from.Illinois Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 I have one PQ that runs Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat, and it last ran on Wed as of 6:50PM CST Sat. I also have other PQ's that run once a week, a total of 20 of them that run on various days Sun - Fri, and they all ran this past week. From past observations, I have noticed that PQ's that run more than once a week seem to get lower priority than those which are only run once a week, or only "as needed". My one that runs several times a week gets later in the day almost every day, and when it gets to about 7:00PM is when I seem to see other people start to complain about not getting their PQ's. Link to comment
+Tequila Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 It appears that things are still not right. I have not received the PQ's I have scheduled to run today. Link to comment
+Dayfamily4 Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 I haven't seen any of my queries since Thursday... Quit working....started working....now quit working again..... Link to comment
+W8TTS Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 New PQ's are running right away for me. It's the scheduled ones that are coming in late. Link to comment
+GeekBoy.from.Illinois Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 New PQ's are running right away for me. It's the scheduled ones that are coming in late. As an update for me, as of about an hour ago, the last 3 of the 4 than normally run on Sunday morning arrived. These 4 PQ's normally arrive around 7am CST, but today the first arrived a little after 8am, and the last 3 all arrived about 7pm... I have a PQ that runs both Fri & Sat, and I only got one of them and it came in real late on Sat (around midnight CST). Link to comment
+ShadowHawk Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Well, yesterday, I sent an email to GC.com's contact info listing.. and about an hour later (2) of my PQ's had been delivered to my email address. However... Today, (Sunday 11-9-2008 - about 5pm CST) I ran 5 of my queries.. of those, only (2) have made it.. and the other (3) still show to be in queue for processing (as of 12:12am CST on 11-10-2008) Link to comment
CoyoteRed Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 One trick of getting your PQs to run is not run the same PQ more than once a week. If you need more than once a week then make a copy for that other day. I've got 7 identical PQs, one each runs on one day a week--these are to update a website and highlights the new caches in the state. One thing I do also is for datasets I want more than once a week is run a full dataset once and then the others run only differentials. You don't really need a full dataset more than once a week if you're keeping an offline database. The full datasets help weed out the archived caches and the differentials help decrease the server load. ...and you're running separate PQs so they will be higher in the queue. I run my full dataset earlier in the week and then the differential later. If I don't get the differential it's not nearly as big of a deal as I've got only 3 day stale data versus 7--or none. That said, the above is no guarantee. I've got single-day PQs that have been running very late in the day. Link to comment
+The Leprechauns Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 CR's advice is good - I also don't run any query more often than once per week, and even then, they are arriving later and later in the day. My last Sunday PQ arrived around 10 pm last night. So, my other new rule of thumb is to always make sure I have the data I need for a roadtrip no later than two days prior to departure. That allows me time to organize the data, output map files, etc. It also builds in a safety margin in case an essential query does not arrive. In those cases I can make a copy and run it the next day, still before hitting the road. Link to comment
+Tequila Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 One trick of getting your PQs to run is not run the same PQ more than once a week. If you need more than once a week then make a copy for that other day. I've got 7 identical PQs, one each runs on one day a week--these are to update a website and highlights the new caches in the state. One thing I do also is for datasets I want more than once a week is run a full dataset once and then the others run only differentials. You don't really need a full dataset more than once a week if you're keeping an offline database. The full datasets help weed out the archived caches and the differentials help decrease the server load. ...and you're running separate PQs so they will be higher in the queue. I run my full dataset earlier in the week and then the differential later. If I don't get the differential it's not nearly as big of a deal as I've got only 3 day stale data versus 7--or none. That said, the above is no guarantee. I've got single-day PQs that have been running very late in the day. Hey CR, Can you explain your "differential" PQ with respect to what criteria you use? Currently, I run 9 PQ's based on Date Placed. I am in a cache dense area and it take 9 PQ's to get a reasonable distance from my house. 8 of the PQ's are run twice per week. The 9th PQ, which covers caches placed since October 1, runs daily but as 7 different PQ's per your suggestion above. I am curious if there is some sort of "differential" I can run to keep the other 8 current and eliminate the need to run twice per week. I have noticed that my 7 separate daily's are running later and later all the time. Thanks T Link to comment
CoyoteRed Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Can you explain your "differential" PQ with respect to what criteria you use? When I say "differential" I mean "caches updated in the last 7 days." It's not really a true differential as the archived caches aren't included, but it's close enough. These are pretty much identical to the full PQ except for the date cut-offs. I've found that I really need a number cutoff around 350-400 caches to produce the overhead for busy weekends like holidays weekends. You're still cutting the number of PQs in about half. Link to comment
+Tequila Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Can you explain your "differential" PQ with respect to what criteria you use? When I say "differential" I mean "caches updated in the last 7 days." It's not really a true differential as the archived caches aren't included, but it's close enough. These are pretty much identical to the full PQ except for the date cut-offs. I've found that I really need a number cutoff around 350-400 caches to produce the overhead for busy weekends like holidays weekends. You're still cutting the number of PQs in about half. I just ran a test using "updated" and it looks like "posted a note" does not trigger the "updated" flag. In fact it looks like I only got caches "found" in the last 7 days. Does anyone know what "updated" means as opposed to "found"? Link to comment
CoyoteRed Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Can you explain your "differential" PQ with respect to what criteria you use?When I say "differential" I mean "caches updated in the last 7 days." It's not really a true differential as the archived caches aren't included, but it's close enough. These are pretty much identical to the full PQ except for the date cut-offs. I've found that I really need a number cutoff around 350-400 caches to produce the overhead for busy weekends like holidays weekends. You're still cutting the number of PQs in about half. I just ran a test using "updated" and it looks like "posted a note" does not trigger the "updated" flag. In fact it looks like I only got caches "found" in the last 7 days. Does anyone know what "updated" means as opposed to "found"? There's a thread about getting the last logs written and not last logs by date. Don't know if that's what's going on. Could be it was silently changed. Don't know. Used to be any change to the cache or any log. Link to comment
+Tequila Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 I just tried "disabling" and it did NOT show up. Link to comment
+Tequila Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Scratch everything I said. Looks like "Updated" does give you Notes and Disables if you don't also select "Found" Link to comment
+Corey Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 I think PQ's can also sometimes be slow to adjust to logs being posted. Link to comment
+Die C-SAU Bande Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Well, yesterday, I sent an email to GC.com's contact info listing.. and about an hour later (2) of my PQ's had been delivered to my email address. However... Today, (Sunday 11-9-2008 - about 5pm CST) I ran 5 of my queries.. of those, only (2) have made it.. and the other (3) still show to be in queue for processing (as of 12:12am CST on 11-10-2008) Today (Tuesday) there is no reaction. I tried to start my PQs (2) but nothing happend. No mail and no info at the website. I would like to update my OziCE with the actual caches in my region happy hunting Udo Link to comment
+PSHAX Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 not working for me at all.... They run, but return nothing, zip, zilch, nada!!! What's going on? It's been like this for about 2 weeks now.. Link to comment
+Dayfamily4 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I'm still only getting maybe 1 PQ a week. Ran 3:08pm yesterday and still nothing. This has been going on for weeks now. Is there a known problem or what? Link to comment
+pppingme Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I'm still only getting maybe 1 PQ a week. Ran 3:08pm yesterday and still nothing. This has been going on for weeks now. Is there a known problem or what? If they are showing has having run but your not getting them this most likely isn't a PQ issue but an email issue. What email provider are you using? Link to comment
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