+acachebox Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Is there a way to log the GRAB of a TB with the I Phone. I can log a DROP but don't see a way to log a GRAB. I noted the grab in my message with the I Phone but that did not show up on my computer so I had to log it from the computer. This resulted in 3 entries, a find, a drop, and a grab for this one event. Quote Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Correct log for taking a TB from a cache is Retrieve. Grab is used if you are handed the TB by a cacher, or find it in a cache that the TB is not listed in -But in that case it's always best (and polite) to give the cacher holding it time to Drop it. Quote Link to comment
+acachebox Posted November 3, 2011 Author Share Posted November 3, 2011 (edited) Correct log for taking a TB from a cache is Retrieve. Grab is used if you are handed the TB by a cacher, or find it in a cache that the TB is not listed in -But in that case it's always best (and polite) to give the cacher holding it time to Drop it. Thanks for the explanation on grab. Are you saying if I had used the word Retrieve or Retrieved in my Field Log from the I Phone that Geocaching would have picked that up and noted it in my history or do I still have to make a separate entry from my computer when I get home? Edited November 3, 2011 by acachebox Quote Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 On the TB's page you get the option "Found it? Log it!" which will give you all the options available. Worth a read: How to log a Travel Bug <link Quote Link to comment
+acachebox Posted November 3, 2011 Author Share Posted November 3, 2011 Yes I have read that page but my question was could I accomplish that type of log while in the field directly from my I Phone. Quote Link to comment
cadavis0609 Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 Yes you can. Are you using the app or the website? If you're using the app, you click on the trackables tab, hit retrieve it and enter the log info. If its listed in a cache other than what you find it in, you may have to grab it first or discover it and then retrieve it. Quote Link to comment
cadavis0609 Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 Not discover, just grab Quote Link to comment
+mike49107 Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 Is it the same process using the Geosphere App? Or would it just be easier to wait until I get home and log it from the computer? Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 I am moving this thread from the Geocaching Topics forum to the Travel Bug forum. Quote Link to comment
+Gan Dalf Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 I am moving this thread from the Geocaching Topics forum to the Travel Bug forum. But you could have just as easily have moved it to the iphone forum. I'm just sayin... Quote Link to comment
+harraps Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 (edited) Worth a read: How to log a Travel Bug <link Be careful with that. Here Groundspeak falsely declares "grabbing" as the proper action. They are aware of this since a long time. Why they refuse to correct this - no idea. http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=280409&view=findpost&p=4814769 and in the feedback forum. Edited November 4, 2011 by harraps Quote Link to comment
+Eartha Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 You can't do it from the cache page, you have to visit the Trackable page. Retrieve from a cache, grab from somewhere(different cache than it's listed in)/someone else, discover if you saw it in person, but are not moving it. Virtual discoveries are not allowed, but a discover, when you saw it lets the owner know it is alive and well. Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 (edited) Discover is for when someone passed around a display book of coins at an event. Travel bugs are meant to travel. BD Edited November 5, 2011 by BlueDeuce Quote Link to comment
+fuzziebear3 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 The logging of the retrieving of a trackable is a separate step than the logging of the cache. Not sure about your app, but on the web page, you need to do Play -> Find Trackables and then type in the number of the trackable item and hit Enter. This brings up the trackable page. Then you need to write a log using the 'Found It Log It' link, and select the action of 'Retrieved from ....' Quote Link to comment
+CedarPointFreak Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Is it the same process using the Geosphere App? Or would it just be easier to wait until I get home and log it from the computer? I actually use both the Groundspeak app and the geosphere app... With the Groundspeak app, you can log the caches live, and drop off your bugs when you do so. You can also go to the trackable tab on the bottom right, and grab/retrieve them into your inventory. Geosphere does not submit live logs in real time, you only make "Field Notes" that you then upload to geocaching, and then later, when you are back at you computer, can take the time to submit your logs one at a time, adjusting and tweaking your logs as you go on the PC... When it comes to travel bugs, geosphere does not log them for you... what I do is type myself a note in the field note as to which bug i picked up or dropped of at each cache, and then as I log each one, I take the time to log the travel bugs IN/OUT of the cache... putting a TB in a cache this way is done when you submit the log for the cache, and the "retrieve" from a cache is done by going to the TB's page and making the log there. I also like to cut-n-paste the actual name of the travel bug from the site into my logs for that cache so a double record is kept,a nd anyone trying to track down the status of a certain bug has it that much easier... I will also make a note in the log if there are bugs that are supposed to be there, but were not found upon my visit.... and then I make a similar note on the bug's page letting the bug owner know know the same, suggesting to both parties that they mark the bug as missing, so it no longer shows up in that cache's inventory. Sorry for the long explanation, hope it helps. Quote Link to comment
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