+RubyandCo Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Hi there Is it possible to delete Archived Caches to give an accurate total of owned caches on my profile page - I have had to archive several caches over the last few months and have created some more so the profile is giving a falsh indication of how many active ones I have . Thank you Rubyandco - UK Quote Link to comment
+The_Incredibles_ Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 (edited) No, I don't think there is. I sympathize though. I'm always having to calculate to try to figure out how many active caches I've got. Edited May 8, 2013 by The_Incredibles_ Quote Link to comment
+Ant89 Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 you could create another account called "RubyandCosarchivedcaches" and prior to archival adopt the caches over to that account then archive them. Quote Link to comment
AZcachemeister Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 I have seen people doing the 'adopt and then archive' thing. Doesn't make sense to me, though. I own X number of listings, Y number are active and Z number are archived. It's kind of like the people who will copy the text of their previous DNF, append it to their Found log, and delete the DNF log. Magically, they have very few DNFs! I have 170 hides, but some of them didn't work out as planned...I still hid them. Quote Link to comment
+Gitchee-Gummee Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 (edited) Not so sure you should (try to) delete them at all! Deleting such would most likely affect a lot of cacher stats. All those that have previously "Found" those caches would no longer have those finds associated with their caching history/stats. You cannot have "found" something that does not exist. Same thing as deleting Found It logs. Delete the cache and all logs go the same route. It would also affect your Caches Hidden stats. Even though they are archived, you have still hidden them. Delete them and you have not hidden them. That's why caches are not deleted, but archived. Helps to think of the bigger picture, when you want to delete things. Edited May 8, 2013 by Gitchee-Gummee Quote Link to comment
+Great Scott! Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Hi there Is it possible to delete Archived Caches to give an accurate total of owned caches on my profile page - I have had to archive several caches over the last few months and have created some more so the profile is giving a false indication of how many active ones I have. Thank you Rubyandco - UK Perhaps a feature suggestion could be to include active owned cache totals next to the owned caches totals. Quote Link to comment
+RubyandCo Posted May 8, 2013 Author Share Posted May 8, 2013 Not so sure you should (try to) delete them at all! Deleting such would most likely affect a lot of cacher stats. All those that have previously "Found" those caches would no longer have those finds associated with their caching history/stats. You cannot have "found" something that does not exist. Same thing as deleting Found It logs. Delete the cache and all logs go the same route. It would also affect your Caches Hidden stats. Even though they are archived, you have still hidden them. Delete them and you have not hidden them. That's why caches are not deleted, but archived. that makes sense if the cache has disappeared into the ether anyone who had found it would have their stats knocked back Good answer - but as someone else suggested a "show active caches" toggle would be a good idea thank you for the sensible answers which sadly you don't always get on forums Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Since you're a premium member, you could always use a third party statistics program, like GSAK, to generate stats on your main profile page. FindStatGen gives you an option to display your owned caches stats, and it includes the option to only display your active caches and hide the archived ones. Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Create a Pocket Query for Caches I Own. You don't have to run it, just preview it. This will only return active caches, no archived. And there's your number. You can have it return disabled, or not return disabled. You can create a separate query for disabled caches I own, and another for caches I own with the Needs Maintenance Icon set. Pocket Queries!!! Quote Link to comment
+Don_J Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Hi there Is it possible to delete Archived Caches to give an accurate total of owned caches on my profile page - I have had to archive several caches over the last few months and have created some more so the profile is giving a falsh indication of how many active ones I have . Thank you Rubyandco - UK Actually, I don't believe that the website gives any indication of how many active caches any of us has. It has been requested many times in the Feature Request forum and I think that it would be a helpful addition. Quote Link to comment
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