+bjorges Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 I have had some problems uploading a field note file, and could not figure out why. I have tried this several times, but all of them has failed. Yesterday I figured out why A field note file can not contain several dates!?! Since I don't have a colorado or a oregon, I have manually edited the file. For a long time I have thought it was my editing of the file who were wrong, but now I know better Why does the field note files have this limitation? Link to comment
OpinioNate Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 How are you formatting the dates you include in the log? Does it work with other date formats? Say you input a date like Mar. 12th 2009. Does that work? Link to comment
+bjorges Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 How are you formatting the dates you include in the log? Does it work with other date formats? Say you input a date like Mar. 12th 2009. Does that work? I got the original file from a friend with an Colorado, and have just been editing in the same way. GCXXXX1,2009-02-16T18:55Z,Found it,"" GCXXXX2,2009-02-17T12:00Z,Found it,"" Is there other ways to enter date and time as well? Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 (edited) A field note file can not contain several dates!?! This is incorrect. I regularly upload files with several different dates. It's probably an issue with the date format, as Nate suggests. Here's the first two lines of a recent file I uploaded: GC1CH30,2009-01-24T04:39Z,Found it,"blah blah" GC1K3A1,2009-01-25T04:39Z,Found it,"blah blah" Note that the time portion is irrelevant. This is what was in the sample file that I found. I just change the date portion as needed. Also note that the file must be saved in Unicode format, with Unix line endings, or it won't even upload. I found this out the hard way Edit: I see you posted while I was writing my post. Your date formats look fine. Maybe it's the file format? Edited February 23, 2009 by Lil Devil Link to comment
crawil Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 I had the problem that I was using GSAK to customize the cache ID to include the Container & Type descriptions instead of "GC". Instead of GC1K3A1, it would be ST1K3A1 (Small, Traditional and the important part of the number). When I tried to upload the field notes, the lack of "GC" on each waypoint was causing the file to not upload. After I manually changed them all back from "ST" or whatever to "GC" it worked fine. Link to comment
OpinioNate Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Make sure you are not checking the box on field notes upload that suppresses older dates as well. I'd really like to hear about what happens when you try to upload the file with more than one date. Do you get an error? Does it not upload and that's it? Link to comment
+bjorges Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 Make sure you are not checking the box on field notes upload that suppresses older dates as well. I'd really like to hear about what happens when you try to upload the file with more than one date. Do you get an error? Does it not upload and that's it? Have tried both version of check on the date without any change. When I try to upload the file with more than one date, I am immediately transferred to the "There has been an error, - please write what you were trying to do"-page (Probably not the right text but I guess you know which ) This happened in IE, Firefox and Opera. After entering the first day of loggings manually (by copy/paste from the file), I figured I would have it a go once again. Guess what, now it worked !?! My conclution was simple, not more than one date in the file. Link to comment
+OienLabs Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Did a quick test. Three different dates. See source in codebox. Unicode encoded: 3 new notes UTF-8 encoded: 3 new notes ANSI encoded: 0 new notes Then I changed the last waypoint to a nonexisting one. Unicode encoded: 2 new notes No error screens. IE7 Vista 64 GC1MPV1,2009-02-22T14:33Z,Found it,"1530" GC1MXGW,2009-02-23T11:17Z,Found it,"1215" GC1MX0P,2009-02-24T13:05Z,Found it,"1400" Link to comment
+bjorges Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 baø's test does not do it for me, cause I have used the same texteditor both before and after it worked. Still the only change is wether or not there are more than one date in the file. Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 baø's test worked correctly for me, using the UltraEdit text editor. Link to comment
+OienLabs Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 (edited) Sorry for the foreign language but Hva er det du driver og tuller med bjorges? Edited February 25, 2009 by baø Link to comment
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