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Little Red Wagon

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I am having trouble uploading my field notes.

 

I have followed the instructions, Rebooted my PC, removed and reattached my Garmin Oregon but I am having no luck uploading.

 

It is reporting back 0 field notes uploaded. This is happening on both a Mac and a PC.

 

The fieldnotes upload worked last weekend.

 

Any help appreciated.

 

Little Red Wagon

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If you open up the geocache_visits.txt file in a text editor, do you see any of the recent field notes you're expecting? The format of each line is (GC Code)(Date)(Time in UTC)(Log type)(Comments). Also, do you see any strange characters? If so, it's possible the file has gotten corrupt. You can delete the file, and the GPS will automatically re-create it the next time you log a cache.

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When this happens, the cause is usually one of two things:

 

  • The date filter on the upload page is set to a date that comes after the timestamps in the field notes file.
  • A GPX file on the GPS unit contains altered GC codes for the caches it holds. People often use GSAK to change the GC code of the caches uploaded to the GPS to something more informative/descriptive, but that is the identifier the site uses to know which cache was logged in the field notes.

Is there any chance that either of these apply in your case? If not, could you email me your field notes file so that I could have a look?

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When this happens, the cause is usually one of two things:

 

  • The date filter on the upload page is set to a date that comes after the timestamps in the field notes file.
  • A GPX file on the GPS unit contains altered GC codes for the caches it holds. People often use GSAK to change the GC code of the caches uploaded to the GPS to something more informative/descriptive, but that is the identifier the site uses to know which cache was logged in the field notes.

Is there any chance that either of these apply in your case? If not, could you email me your field notes file so that I could have a look?

 

The last time that I tried to upload I unchecked the date, so that shouldn't have been an issue.

 

Also I didn't change anything in GSAK, but I was also having PQ problems Friday night.

 

I will send you an email with the file attached.

 

Thanks for the quick response.

 

LRW

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They have been replaced with a shortened version of the cache name.

Hmm, that's odd. Little Red Wagon, when you look at the caches in GSAK, does the "Code" column show correct GC codes for each cache, or this shortened version of the cache name?

 

Yes the first column shows the GC code number. I don't know what happened, but everything seems to be okay now.

 

Thank you both for steering me in the right direction. Hopefully this won't happen again.

 

Happy caching,

 

Little Red Wagon

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I am having the same probelm with my field nores. I could download them 2 days ago but have been unable to download them for the last 2 days. I do not have Gsak. I just checked all the things mentioned above and all my GC codes are fine, my date stamp is fine and I have the caches in my visiting log txt section.

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it states 0 fieldnotes downloaded. Will email fieldnotes

GC1FD5W,2012-03-21T13:23Z,Didn't find it,""

GC383GA,2012-03-21T13:35Z,Found it,""

GC388W6,2012-03-21T13:49Z,Found it,""

GC383GF,2012-03-21T13:54Z,Found it,"TB"

GC38344,2012-03-21T14:10Z,Found it,""

GC38311,2012-03-21T14:37Z,Found it,""

GC38332,2012-03-21T14:37Z,Found it,""

GC239AK,2012-03-21T15:11Z,Found it,""

GC38EHD,2012-03-21T15:17Z,Found it,""

GC38DTE,2012-03-21T15:24Z,Found it,""

GC38DT5,2012-03-21T15:33Z,Found it,""

GC38DRX,2012-03-21T15:36Z,Found it,""

GC38DRJ,2012-03-21T15:48Z,Found it,""

GC38DQQ,2012-03-21T15:52Z,Found it,""

GC3830J,2012-03-21T15:57Z,Found it,""

GC305EZ,2012-03-21T16:51Z,Found it,""

GC30578,2012-03-21T17:08Z,Didn't find it,""

GC37KR6,2012-03-21T17:16Z,Found it,""

GC2HW2W,2012-03-21T17:35Z,Found it,""

GC2MF95,2012-03-21T17:43Z,Found it,""

GC37KRN,2012-03-21T17:49Z,Found it,""

GC37KTW,2012-03-21T17:56Z,Found it,""

GC1C03K,2012-03-21T18:01Z,Found it,""

GC29PWZ,2012-03-21T18:34Z,Found it,""

GC26205,2012-03-21T18:42Z,Didn't find it,""

GC1CFHC,2012-03-21T18:46Z,Found it,""

GC32PMF,2012-03-21T18:59Z,Didn't find it,""

GC1A4Z7,2012-03-22T13:40Z,Found it,""

GC33510,2012-03-22T14:02Z,Didn't find it,""

GC191D2,2012-03-22T14:18Z,Found it,""

GC2ZG2V,2012-03-22T14:30Z,Found it,""

GC2ZXTN,2012-03-22T14:37Z,Found it,""

GC2P86E,2012-03-22T14:43Z,Found it,""

GC175J8,2012-03-22T14:49Z,Found it,""

GC25FNG,2012-03-22T14:56Z,Found it,""

GC12YZR,2012-03-22T15:12Z,Found it,""

GC2ZXT4,2012-03-22T16:20Z,Found it,""

GC2ZXT7,2012-03-22T16:23Z,Found it,""

GC3F4NB,2012-03-24T22:36Z,Found it,""

GC3FAEP,2012-03-26T14:44Z,Found it,""

GC1ZNJA,2012-03-26T15:02Z,Didn't find it,""

GC3FADT,2012-03-26T15:22Z,Found it,""

GC2TN7Y,2012-03-26T15:54Z,Didn't find it,""

GC37J13,2012-03-26T16:01Z,Found it,""

GC1ZNGB,2012-03-26T16:16Z,Found it,""

GC37ERW,2012-03-26T16:23Z,Found it,""

GC1GDHB,2012-03-26T16:36Z,Found it,""

GC37ETC,2012-03-26T16:50Z,Didn't find it,""

GC3D9QQ,2012-03-26T17:28Z,Found it,""

GC1GDGH,2012-03-26T17:39Z,Found it,"VERY WET"

GC2DDGK,2012-03-26T18:19Z,Found it,""

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Are you encountering an error, or does the page indicate that 0 field notes were uploaded successfully? If the latter, could you email me a copy of your field notes file so that I could take a look?

GC1FD5W,2012-03-21T13:23Z,Didn't find it,""

GC383GA,2012-03-21T13:35Z,Found it,""

GC388W6,2012-03-21T13:49Z,Found it,""

GC383GF,2012-03-21T13:54Z,Found it,"TB"

GC38344,2012-03-21T14:10Z,Found it,""

GC38311,2012-03-21T14:37Z,Found it,""

GC38332,2012-03-21T14:37Z,Found it,""

GC239AK,2012-03-21T15:11Z,Found it,""

GC38EHD,2012-03-21T15:17Z,Found it,""

GC38DTE,2012-03-21T15:24Z,Found it,""

GC38DT5,2012-03-21T15:33Z,Found it,""

GC38DRX,2012-03-21T15:36Z,Found it,""

GC38DRJ,2012-03-21T15:48Z,Found it,""

GC38DQQ,2012-03-21T15:52Z,Found it,""

GC3830J,2012-03-21T15:57Z,Found it,""

GC305EZ,2012-03-21T16:51Z,Found it,""

GC30578,2012-03-21T17:08Z,Didn't find it,""

GC37KR6,2012-03-21T17:16Z,Found it,""

GC2HW2W,2012-03-21T17:35Z,Found it,""

GC2MF95,2012-03-21T17:43Z,Found it,""

GC37KRN,2012-03-21T17:49Z,Found it,""

GC37KTW,2012-03-21T17:56Z,Found it,""

GC1C03K,2012-03-21T18:01Z,Found it,""

GC29PWZ,2012-03-21T18:34Z,Found it,""

GC26205,2012-03-21T18:42Z,Didn't find it,""

GC1CFHC,2012-03-21T18:46Z,Found it,""

GC32PMF,2012-03-21T18:59Z,Didn't find it,""

GC1A4Z7,2012-03-22T13:40Z,Found it,""

GC33510,2012-03-22T14:02Z,Didn't find it,""

GC191D2,2012-03-22T14:18Z,Found it,""

GC2ZG2V,2012-03-22T14:30Z,Found it,""

GC2ZXTN,2012-03-22T14:37Z,Found it,""

GC2P86E,2012-03-22T14:43Z,Found it,""

GC175J8,2012-03-22T14:49Z,Found it,""

GC25FNG,2012-03-22T14:56Z,Found it,""

GC12YZR,2012-03-22T15:12Z,Found it,""

GC2ZXT4,2012-03-22T16:20Z,Found it,""

GC2ZXT7,2012-03-22T16:23Z,Found it,""

GC3F4NB,2012-03-24T22:36Z,Found it,""

GC3FAEP,2012-03-26T14:44Z,Found it,""

GC1ZNJA,2012-03-26T15:02Z,Didn't find it,""

GC3FADT,2012-03-26T15:22Z,Found it,""

GC2TN7Y,2012-03-26T15:54Z,Didn't find it,""

GC37J13,2012-03-26T16:01Z,Found it,""

GC1ZNGB,2012-03-26T16:16Z,Found it,""

GC37ERW,2012-03-26T16:23Z,Found it,""

GC1GDHB,2012-03-26T16:36Z,Found it,""

GC37ETC,2012-03-26T16:50Z,Didn't find it,""

GC3D9QQ,2012-03-26T17:28Z,Found it,""

GC1GDGH,2012-03-26T17:39Z,Found it,"VERY WET"

GC2DDGK,2012-03-26T18:19Z,Found it,""

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