+chuck4564 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 I found that my home location associated with my username had been changed without my involvement. I have some pocket queries that I routinely run that reference my home location and today they didn't return the expected results. A week ago they did. Somehow my home location was moved about 40 miles to the west. I had some recent finds in the general area of the bogus home location. It could be that I had centered the geocaching map at that location but I certainly didn't update my home to that location. Has anybody else had unintended home location changes? Quote Link to comment
Nylimb Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 16 minutes ago, chuck4564 said: Has anybody else had unintended home location changes? It happened to me a few years ago. I tried to publish a cache near my home in California, but the reviewer said that it was too far from my home location. Somehow it had been changed to a spot in Germany. After I changed it back the cache was soon published. Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 2 hours ago, chuck4564 said: I found that my home location associated with my username had been changed without my involvement. I have some pocket queries that I routinely run that reference my home location and today they didn't return the expected results. A week ago they did. Somehow my home location was moved about 40 miles to the west. I had some recent finds in the general area of the bogus home location. It could be that I had centered the geocaching map at that location but I certainly didn't update my home to that location. Has anybody else had unintended home location changes? I change my home coordinates probably more frequently than anyone who uses the site. I have never seen what you describe happen. I would think it a little unnerving to see that my home location had been changed without my knowledge. I wonder what causes that. Quote Link to comment
+terratin Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 Regular home location changer here. Never seen this either. Have you excluded foul play? Have a unique password for gc and change it ever so often? Quote Link to comment
+chuck4564 Posted November 11, 2020 Author Share Posted November 11, 2020 3 hours ago, terratin said: Regular home location changer here. Never seen this either. Have you excluded foul play? Have a unique password for gc and change it ever so often? I haven't excluded foul play but I haven't seen any evidence of any other altered data in my geocaching.com account. There haven't been any new logs, deleted logs, or any other data that I have reviewed. My geocaching.com password isn't a strong one and hasn't been changed in ages. My initial thought was that some website data had been corrupted either by some Groundspeak error or a hardware issue. Since there hasn't been a large group of users commenting with a shared experience this past week, it looks like the issue is more unique to me. Quote Link to comment
RuideAlmeida Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 37 minutes ago, chuck4564 said: My initial thought was that some website data had been corrupted either by some Groundspeak error or a hardware issue. Some other geocaching apps, have weird effects on Geocaching profile settings. Do you use any? 1 1 Quote Link to comment
+chuck4564 Posted November 12, 2020 Author Share Posted November 12, 2020 10 hours ago, RuideAlmeida said: Some other geocaching apps, have weird effects on Geocaching profile settings. Do you use any? I used the official geocaching app and Cachly. The false home setting is within 3 miles of where I was caching during the past week. I was on the edge of having cell phone service during this time, sometimes I had it, sometimes I didn't. I don't think there is an option to set the home location within either of the apps. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
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