Delete DNF after finding it?

[+FolsomNatural]

OK, I could not find a cache.

The CO indicates it's still in the correct location.

I go back again and this time I discover it.

 

Question: Once I've logged the find, should I go back and delete the original DNF?

Or leave both logs intact?

[+Sapience Trek]

Leave it. Its an accurate part of the caches history.

[+StarBrand]

Leave it.

 

It remains a fact that you looked and Did Not Find.

 

and

 

you looked and made a find.

 

DNF logs are not some sort of demerit system. Just a record of your attempt.

[+Max and 99]

Some people will change their DNF log to a Find, but the owner will not get a notification. I think it' better to KEEP the DNF log, and then log a find. The owner then will receive notification that you returned and found the cache.

[+Isonzo Karst]

Log a new find, so the cache owner gets a new notification.

 

You can delete the DNF if you want to, it's your own log.

 

I'd keep it, as it's part of my caching history. I'm just as interested in my 100th DNF as I was in my 100th find - okay, not terribly interested in either, but they're both part of the game for me ;-)

Most cachers will self report a DNF rate of about 10%, just FYI.

[+Gitchee-Gummee]

The DNF is part of your caching history. As such you should* leave it stand -- unless of course, you are one of those people that try "change" history <kidding>.

 

But do remember that it is part of the cache history too, same reasoning -- changing history........

 

 

* There is nothing in stone saying that you must leave as is.

[+Totem Clan]

It's your log. You do as you wish. If it were on my cache I would like to see you leave it. It tells a story.

[+Planet]

Why delete it? It's history! I have never deleted a DNF find. Not in 10 years.

[+Davequal]

Leave it. It shows the CO how well he did on hiding the cache. I love the DNF's on my cache.

[+briansnat]

I leave them and as a cache owner I prefer others don't mess with my cache's history.

[+rockhoundbmw]

I tend to delete my DNF log(s) after finally finding the cache, and I write in my Found It log that I have searched before without finding it (sometimes including the date or how many times I have searched without finding the cache, but not always). The reason I delete my DNF log is so I can clear it from my DNF list and keep track of which caches I still need to revisit (I don't use the watch cache feature, so every once in a while I go through my DNF list to see if anything has changed since I logged my DNF).

 

The only times that I do leave my DNF log intact after I found the cache is when my DNF log resulted in the CO determining the cache was missing, and then the CO disabled and/or replaced the cache, or if my DNF log was part of a string of DNFs/NMs/NAs that resulted in Reviewer intervention and archival. If I deleted my DNF log, it wouldn't really make sense why the CO all of a sudden disabled the cache or performed maintenance, or that the cache was archived by a Reviewer.

[+popokiiti]

I don't delete my DNFs - they're a part of my caching history as well as that of the the various caches. When I DNF, I often put that cache on a watchlist...the subsequent finders make me want to try again!

[+WRASTRO]

Deleting a prior DNF after making a find is simply revisionist history and there is no rational reason to do so. Lots of folks will come up with reasons but they do not make any sense.

[+Pond Bird]

If you had trouble finding it, then leave the DNF so people know that the cache is difficult to find. Once you make the find, you can describe how hard it is as well, but with no record of your DNF, geocaches may say the cache is easy to find (when it's not easy to find).