Geocaching - gcFieldNotes.txt keep only last cache log

[wacek]

Hi,
Its my firs time to post on forum so I would like to thank You for great software. I am using Locus since almost the beggining and its great, feraturerich companion to my trips.
I start to use it also for Geocaching but found the latest changes introduces some inconveniences: File gcFieldNotes.txt is meant for storage of cache log. It worked that way and every new log entry was added at the end of the previous entries.
Since last updates I found that now only last cache log is kept. Simply if I add log entry it overwrites all previous information. Its very inconvinient because Than I need to manually look for found caches and need to remember what Ive put  or take out from every of it. Simply gcFieldNotes.txt is usless now.

Do I do something wrong or its intended modification?
Kind regards,

[Ted Quinlan]

This seems weird... the field notes work as usual for me... every new log is added and nothing is overwritten.

Sent from my Defy

[Menion]

same for me ... no problem. Are you sure wacek that there is some problem? Try to delete gcFieldNotes file, and start with field notes again, with empty file.

[tofska]

I'm getting the same problem with gcFieldNotes.txt, in that it only keeps the last log, and won't work when uploading to GC.com.

Here's an example of the contents of the file

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,2012-02-04T21:42Z,Found it,"I'm attempting this by bike, although I'm having to push it a lot through here. Awesome big container! I hope it sees some appropriately sized goodies. T4TC - M@"
It appears that the GC code is missing from the first field.  Therefore Locus, and GC.com, can't associate the log with a particular geocache.

A clue that something might be wrong with GC codes is that they don't appear at the top of the Geocache screen:
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Although they do appear on the Waypoint screen:
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I'm not sure if this is relevant, but I had installed the GSAK Database plugin.  But this doesn't seem to support GSAK version 6?, so I uninstalled it.  This hasn't made a difference to the gcFieldNotes problem though.

Deleting the gcFieldNotes.txt does not help.  It just gets recreated without the GC code.

Hope this helps find the problem.
Cheers, Matt.

[stebu]

The Geocache field should have the GC-code in the waypoint screen!
GSAK is "breaking" your GPX-file.

My GPX-files have for each waypoint the following fields:
<wpt lat="63.00000" lon="27.00000"><time>2012-02-06T07:00:00Z</time>
<name>GC3CXXX</name><desc>this field seems to go to the header of the window</desc>
<url>http://coord.info/GC3CXXX</url><urlname>GC data</urlname>
<sym>Geocache</sym><type>Geocache|Unknown Cache</type>
<groundspeak:cache id="2700000" available="True" archived="False" xmlns:groundspeak="http://www.groundspeak.com/cache/1/0/1">
<groundspeak:name>Name of the geocache</groundspeak:name>
<groundspeak:placed_by>cacher</groundspeak:placed_by><groundspeak:owner id="11">cacher</groundspeak:owner>
<groundspeak:type>Unknown Cache</groundspeak:type><groundspeak:container>Micro</groundspeak:container>
<groundspeak:attributes>
....

[tofska]

GSAK is "breaking" your GPX-file.

My GPX-files have for each waypoint the following fields:
<wpt lat="63.00000" lon="27.00000"><time>2012-02-06T07:00:00Z</time>
<name>GC3CXXX</name>
....

You're right!  I had GSAK configured to name the waypoint using its smartcode logic - ie, with a %smart tag in the Waypoint Name field.  Using the %code tag instead to ensure it is named only as the GC code, fixes the problem!

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I hope this solves it for wacek as well.
Thanks!, Matt.