How to view Groundspeaks' disabled log for my caches.

[+Team Dromomania]

When a wildfire swept through my area last month I disabled over 40 of my caches which were in the burn zone hidden in the wilderness. The area has recently been opened again to the public and I have hiked over 60 miles to check on my hides with another 15 or so miles of hiking left to go before I am able to check them all - a lot of hiking for this 68 year old <G>. During my hikes I've repaired or replaced some of the damaged caches and enabled them. However, several needs more work, replacement or repairs which I couldn't do in the field so I still have them disabled with notes on my progress of repairs. A lot more mileage of hiking will be required to return all my hides to their normal status.

 

I notice that when I start creating a new cache that Groundspeak gives me a list of those caches which are currently disabled or needs maintenance. My cache page "disabled" log list shows ALL of the caches which had been disabled – even the ones which I have enabled later on. Is there a way in which I can get that Groundspeak list without going to create a cache or spending a lot of time filtering in my searches? After all, it seems that Groundspeak has already done all the work.

[+T.D.M.22]

Well you can go to your profile and view your owned caches. Caches with a red wrench beside the name are in need of maintenance. You must log owner maintenance to get rid of that icon. The caches with a line through the name are ones that are disabled. You log enable cache to get rid of that.

 

There may be other ways using third party products, I do not know.

[+Team Dromomania]

Well you can go to your profile and view your owned caches. Caches with a red wrench beside the name are in need of maintenance. You must log owner maintenance to get rid of that icon. The caches with a line through the name are ones that are disabled. You log enable cache to get rid of that.

 

There may be other ways using third party products, I do not know.

 

I have 174 caches and must stroll through them all to see the ones with the maintenance icon but that doesn't put them all together in one list which I could use. Groundspeak already places them all in one sorted list but I can only view that list when I'm creating a new cache. I'm trying to find out if the Groundspeak sorted list can be seen elsewhere.

[+Touchstone]

You might try running a PQ, setting the Filters for "I Own" and "Disabled".

[+AnnaMoritz]

I don't know the solution for selecting Owner and 'needs maintenance' within geocaching.com, but

 

the two caches with needs maintenance icon at the moment are already archived:

http://coord.info/GCJT8C

http://coord.info/GCR0XV

 

Are these caches listed as needing maintenance when you start a new cachepage? If yes, to me it doesn't seem helpful to remind you of a needs maintenance on archived caches.

 

For disabled caches also the new search gives a list

 https://www.geocaching.com/play/search?owner[0]=team+dromomania&e=2

Edited September 8, 2015 by AnnaMoritz

[+Isonzo Karst]

I'm going to repeat the excellent suggestion of Touchstone above me. As Premium Member, you should own some Pocket Queries:

 

Caches I own + that are disabled

 

Cache I own + that have the NM attribute

 

You don't need to run these, create them, set NO day to run, then PREVIEW the results...

 

(I also have a PQ for Caches I own + have Travel Bugs, and periodically eyeball these. Trackables in my caches tend to get stuck, I'll go move them out of those hiking and high terrain caches into something that will be found. sometimes I Mark Missing, Strictly optional...)

 

I goften get that warning on new cache submission, as I own a cache that must be disabled a large part of the year from land manager rules. I ignore it and write up my new hide.

 

the two caches with needs maintenance icon at the moment are already archived...

Are these caches listed as needing maintenance when you start a new cachepage?

No, you won't see any reporting on your archived caches.

[Keystone]

I always use the "Geocaches (Yours)" list that's accessed from the menu at the top of the profile page. It shows all my caches and indicates which ones are disabled and/or have a "Needs Maintenance" flag.

[+Team Dromomania]

You might try running a PQ, setting the Filters for "I Own" and "Disabled".

 

That would do the trick for my disabled caches. I was looking for the list that Groundspeak had already calculated so perhaps this is the trick they use when displaying their list during my new cache creations.

[+Team Dromomania]

I don't know the solution for selecting Owner and 'needs maintenance' within geocaching.com, but

 

the two caches with needs maintenance icon at the moment are already archived:

http://coord.info/GCJT8C

http://coord.info/GCR0XV

 

Are these caches listed as needing maintenance when you start a new cachepage? If yes, to me it doesn't seem helpful to remind you of a needs maintenance on archived caches.

 

For disabled caches also the new search gives a list

 https://www.geocaching.com/play/search?owner[0]=team+dromomania&e=2

 

Archived caches do not show up on the new cache creation page.

[+Team Dromomania]

I always use the "Geocaches (Yours)" list that's accessed from the menu at the top of the profile page. It shows all my caches and indicates which ones are disabled and/or have a "Needs Maintenance" flag.

 

My cache list is long and that method doesn't group them together for easy access. I believe the above PQ search suggestion might be my best choice. I've been caching for a dozen years and I still have so much to learn.

[+NYPaddleCacher]

You might try running a PQ, setting the Filters for "I Own" and "Disabled".

 

I was going to suggest the same thing. That's probably a good PQ to create (but not schedule) and keep around for whenever you might want to do a quick check on your caches. You could also check the "I own" fllter and the "Needs Maintenance" attribute (it's too bad these can't be "OR'd" to see all your caches that have needs maintenance logs. It would also be nice if the Needs Maintenance attribute was consistent and didn't display as a red wrench in some places and a red cross in others.

 

 

[+J Grouchy]

https://www.geocaching.com/hide/cachemaintenance.aspx

 

That's the link I get when I click 'hide a cache' and it shows (for me) my unpublished listings. It also typically shows active-but-disabled caches. It's not really that difficult to get to that screen...much less so than going through the PQ process. Two clicks and boom.

Edited September 9, 2015 by J Grouchy

[+kunarion]

https://www.geocaching.com/hide/cachemaintenance.aspx

 

That's the link I get when I click 'hide a cache' and it shows (for me) my unpublished listings. It also typically shows active-but-disabled caches. It's not really that difficult to get to that screen...much less so than going through the PQ process. Two clicks and boom.

That's pretty handy! I'll save that link. It also shows unaddressed wrench icon "Needs Maintenance" caches.