Pocket Queries not running

[+HockeyHiker19]

Good morning! This morning around 9:15am Pacific, I marked 7 queries to run. Four of them ran immediately, but here it is, 2 hours later, and 3 of them still haven't run. Is there an issue with the server? Thanks!

[+Viajero Perdido]

Don't submit odd-numbered queries!

 

(I'll leave the HOW as an exercise for the reader...)

 

EDIT: I'm on a keyboard now; can elaborate. PQs have an internal number, which you see if you examine the ZIP file after downloading. Odd numbers are cursed "underachievers".

 

See: http://forums.Ground...howtopic=341927

Edited January 8, 2017 by Viajero Perdido

[+HockeyHiker19]

I'd like someone from HQ to explain why an odd number of queries won't run properly since that makes no sense. What if someone wanted to run only 1 query?

[+kunarion]

I'd like someone from HQ to explain why an odd number of queries won't run properly since that makes no sense. What if someone wanted to run only 1 query?

Queries listed as #1, 3, 5... seem to be on one server. Queries #2, 4, 6... seem to be on another. Some people have noted a trend where at times the odd numbered ones in the list don't run, but the even numbered ones do.

 

It's a good idea to run PQs at other days than on a weekend, and also to have more than one similar PQ on more than one server. I don't run every PQ every day, I have a couple of local PQs and run them alternately throughout the week. That way, even if something goes wrong between Friday night and Monday afternoon, I have a pretty good local PQ that's only a couple of days old. I do a similar thing for a special trip out of town.

 

If you have the Official Geocaching App, and especially if you have a data subscription, often you can load "lists" and individual caches, even when PQs or the whole the site is down. I have a phone set up for wifi only, as a backup for whatever is not on my GPSr. It could rescue a caching trip if the site isn't running PQs.

Edited January 8, 2017 by kunarion

[+C3GPS]

Pocket queries are given internal unique numbers by Groundspeak. I believe that the ones that are given odd numbers are run on separate servers than the ones that are even numbered. Names have nothing to do with it.

[+kunarion]

PQs have an internal number, which you see if you examine the ZIP file after downloading. Odd numbers are cursed "underachievers".

My PQ "10133431_Fay12mile.zip" ran as usual. That would be an underachiever, right? Maybe mine ran before the hiccup.

[+Viajero Perdido]

I had good luck today. Ran two, and while the even was instantaneous, the odd was only a few minutes behind.

 

Last time a week ago, it was hours later.

 

Maybe they gave the server a smack, which unclogged the pipe running out the back. I understand this technical stuff.