Pocket Query Content Question?

[+Team Ullium]

I've only just managed to find out how to download my Pocket Query data into my Palm M505 and using the .gpx file I get most of the information included!

However, I notice that I dont get all the past logs!! About five seems to be the limit of past logs I can get!!

 

So I wondered if there was any way I could manage to include all the past logs in my download to the M505 ???

 

TIA

Ullium.

[+harold1066]

If you are using GSAK and CachMate, when you export to cachmate PDB file there is a box named cache logs the default is for 5 change this to the highest number, is should then give you all the past logs.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Geo

[+Team Ullium]

Thanks Harold

 

I had a good idea I had seen something about the number of past logs being 5 but I couldn't seem to find it again when I (eventually ) managed to get the info successfully downloaded into the M505.

 

I have another PQ in my inbox at the moment but I really don't think that I am following the proper proceedure as I take the gpx file and run it on the convert program which tells me that next time I hotsync it will download...which I have been managing to do...so I take it that before I download there will be a 'Past Logs number' option!?

 

Also, can you advise me in downloading the pictures associated with the logs?

 

Anyway...thanks again

 

Ullium.

[+Team Ullium]

Hi again Harold

 

Yup I found the past log box...but even though I set it to ten (it won't allow a higher setting than this) I am still only getting the first five past logs?

 

What am I doing wrong? Could this be a registration thing?

 

Sorry to be so slow on the uptake

 

Ullium.

[+harold1066]

Hi again Harold 

 

Yup I found the past log box...but even though I set it to ten (it won't allow a higher setting than this) I am still only getting the first five past logs?

 

What am I doing wrong? Could this be a registration thing?

 

Sorry to be so slow on the uptake 

 

Ullium.

GSAK doesn`t need to be registered but cachmate does so it may be a problem with cachmate. I think cachmate (unregistered) only allows 10 caches to be shown.

 

You should be able to get higher that 10 in GSAK, I have mind set to 25.

 

On the pictures, I`m only using an old Vx palm so can`t download the pictures, so I can`t help on that matter, sorry.

 

I use this system for PQ and then filter everything GSAK it`s better than downloading individual PQs

[+Team Ullium]

Unregistered copies of CacheMate will only import up to a 10 record limit for the database, and will truncate descriptions to 2 kilobytes. Once the program is registered, you will need to re-import the records that were imported before, to get the full description text.

 

Spot on Harold

 

However, I thought I had registered ... so I went back to the website and questioned them and they told me I have registered but I am using the unregistered version...so hopefully when I get this sorted out...all will be fixed

 

I think the 10 record limit is wrong though because I can only get 5...but no worries when I get the updated version this should be fixed

 

Thanks for all the help Harold

 

Ullium

[+Team Ullium]

It would appear according to Cachemate that five past logs is a typical download from a GPX file !!

 

This was the reply to my email to them:-

 

Typically, only the last 5 logs will be in the GPX file, at least from

Geocaching.com.  If you have logged anything on the site for a particular

cache, though, it's possible to get more than that for those caches

 

I can't believe, considering the number of Palm Pilot users on the forum, that no one else has come up against this problem??

 

Ullium.

[+harold1066]

Some of the cache I`ve downloaded have only 5 past logs and some have more.

 

THis is a list I have on the palm at the moment:

 

Dick`s Treasury GCJBXJ has 15 past logs

Harry`s Horde GCJBXP has 13

Forget-me-motte GCG2JG has 5

Toms Treasure Chest GCH1B2 has 12

 

So I don`t know what is happening, some have more that 5.

 

Geo

[+Team Ullium]

Like you Harold ... I dont know what is happening either?

 

The implication from Garmin was that there might be an exception to the normal five if one had logged on the cache!....but who would want to download caches that one has already found? Perhaps he meant logged a note or a not found?

 

I notice you dont have a lot of downloads, whereas I have about 37 and I'm wondering if it is a space problem...though I have plenty of extra memory added!?

I will try a smaller PQ selection and see what happens!

 

I am still amazed that you and I Harold are the only Palm owners who have come up against this problem!?

 

Ullium.

[+harold1066]

I notice you dont have a lot of downloads, whereas I have about 37 and I'm wondering if it is a space problem...though I have plenty of extra memory added!?

I will try a smaller PQ selection and see what happens!

 

I am still amazed that you and I Harold are the only Palm owners who have come up against this problem!?

 

Ullium.

The four that I quoted were just the first four in my local folder which contains about 150 caches. So I too, don`t think it`s a space problem.

 

I must admit that I don`t worry about how many past logs I have. Maybe posting on in the GPS Unit and software forum or searching there may get a better response, as we`re the only ones posting here

 

Geo

[+roolku]

I am still amazed that you and I Harold are the only Palm owners who have come up against this problem!?

Me too, me too.

 

I assumed that pocket querries only contain the last 5 logs so I don't use them directly but import them into GSAK regularely and build up the history there (you have to be careful with the interval - if a cache is found more often that 5 times inbetween updates you get gaps). Obviously this means I don't get the logs from before I started doing it, but better than nothing. Incidently I always wondered if an old time GSAK user with old logs (Pharisee?) would be willing to export his database as gpx and contribute the file to the community.

 

Cheers

Roolku

[+NickandAliandEliza]

If you are using GSAK and CachMate, when you export to cachmate PDB file there is a box named cache logs the default is for 5 change this to the highest number, is should then give you all the past logs.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Geo

I've got an iPAQ and use GPXSonar. Anyone got any ideas how I specify how many logs I want to view? I'm not even sure what files to choose to export.....

[+Team Ullium]

Me too, me too

.

 

Thanks for speaking up Roolku...I always knew you were a big man

 

Nick and Ali,

I've got an iPAQ and use GPXSonar

 

I'm having enough trouble trying to get peeps who are using the same kit as me to reply without you sidetracking the issue with your own problem LOL....perhaps you could start a post of your own???

 

Ullium.

[+Team Ullium]

At last I have an answer to my question...and straight from the horse's mouth (Geocache.com)

 

The maximum number of logs downloadable in the Pocket Queries is five. I'm

not sure why Cachemate allows you to select more than five. Wishful

thinking? Sorry for the confusion

 

I'm not all that happy about the answer...but at least I now know for certain that I am not doing something wrong

 

Thanks to all the posters who were honest enough to admit they could only get five past logs downloaded....now we know why eh?

 

Ullium.

[+Brenin Tegeingl]

If your pq includes caches you've found, you actualy get 6 logs. The last 5+ your own if it's not in the last 5.

Dave

[+Team Ullium]

Yes you are quite correct Mancunian Pyrocacher

 

I forgot to mention that...

 

However I wouldn't have thought that too many cachers would be downloading caches they have already logged !? Unless of course it is a not found or note log!?

 

Ullium.

[+Brenin Tegeingl]

However I wouldn't have thought that too many cachers would be downloading caches they have already logged !?

 

You'd be supprised, some cachers like to keep a up to date record of all caches in the UK . Especial if they are using a program like GSAK, which allows them to filter the info in multi ways.

 

Dave another cache event this year?

Edited July 20, 2004 by Mancunian Pyrocacher

[+Team Ullium]

You'd be supprised, some cachers like to keep a up to date record of all caches in the UK

 

In that case I would be surprised if they wanted to include more than the last log entry (for obvious reasons)....certainly not as many logs as possible !!!

 

I still think that there could have been a better way to restrict the volume and server memory than this blanket restriction to 5 past logs (and perhaps ones own log to make six)

 

Ullium.

[+roolku]

You'd be supprised, some cachers like to keep a up to date record of all caches in the UK

 

I still think that there could have been a better way to restrict the volume and server memory than this blanket restriction to 5 past logs

They are clearly doing themselves a disservice. If I knew I could get all the logs in the pocket querry I wouldn't need to download all UK caches every week.

 

Roolku

[+Team Ullium]

If I knew I could get all the logs in the pocket querry I wouldn't need to download all UK caches every week.

 

I'm a bit puzzled there Roolku ?? Why do you need to download all the UK caches every week ?? (remember I'm knew to this game LOL).

 

Surely you only need certain subsets of that lot ?? So I must be missing something??

 

Ullium.

[+roolku]

If I knew I could get all the logs in the pocket querry I wouldn't need to download all UK caches every week.

 

I'm a bit puzzled there Roolku ?? Why do you need to download all the UK caches every week ?? (remember I'm knew to this game LOL).

 

Surely you only need certain subsets of that lot ?? So I must be missing something??

 

Ullium.

Yes, but I don't know which subsets I will need in the future. So I am building up the logs for all of them in the gsak database in case I will get into the area.

 

For example cache A is found 4 times in week 1, 5 times in week 2 and 4 times in week 3. If I only get one pocket query in week 3 I will only get 5 logs. If I import them regularely into gsak, I will get all 11.

 

Roolku

[+Team Ullium]

You sneaky little devil !!!!

 

Sorry how can I use the word 'little' when referring to someone your size?

 

Ullium.

[+Learned Gerbil]

My understanding is that pocket queries are limited ot the last five logs, plus *any* logs you have made up to a maximum of ten.

 

I you own a cache for example, and post a note for every maintenenace visit, cachemate will allow you to see the last five logs by other people, and the last five you made.

[+Pengy&Tigger]

I can't figure out why anyone would need more than the last 5 logs. Am I missing something?

 

Tigger

[+Belplasca]

Well, I can think of one cache in Regent's park which is really easy - if you read a log entry from something over a year ago, but IMPOSSIBLE if you don't!

 

Hence the wish to have more than five past logs...

 

Bob Aldridge

[+Team Ullium]

I can't figure out why anyone would need more than the last 5 logs

 

I can't figure out why anyone would ask that question

 

If you can see the point of downloading at least 5 logs Tigger then its the same reason to want all of them

 

Now if you had said you couldn't figure out why anyone would want to download 'any' past logs or even just the last log on it's own... I could have understood that ... the first to shun any help whatsoever and the second to see the last time the cache was visited

 

Ullium.

[+Pengy&Tigger]

I would want to see the last few in case there are DNFs, so that you can see if it may be missing!

 

Tigger