You guys have been doing this a bit longer than me but I have come to appreciate maintaining my own database in GSAK. Barring a hard drive failure I can store a lot a data for a long time. Run those PQs and save the data. On 9/28/07, AZcachemeister wrote: > > We could have seen this coming back when Petite Elite attempted to adopt > All Aboard Gone up in Prescott. I can't remember if the original owner was > out of contact, but the logic was that the container was missing, so the > cache could only be un-archived to the original owner, and not an adoptee. > I read something in the forums that hinted that archived caches will be > taken off the maps soon, so the only way you would be able to 'find' them > would be by knowing the waypoint ID, or perhaps by looking at someones found > list. > Apparently 'cache permanence' is falling by the wayside, so stock up on > 'Gladware' and just archive the cache and 'hide' a new one when the > container disintegrates. > > Richard Daines wrote: > > There have been several conversations on the forum about just this topic > and as predicted, this is the response. GC seems to lean to archiving > rather that adoption if the original owner doesn't get involved. There is a > similar cache here in Missouri that appears to have been quietly adopted but > is Disabled none the less. Unless the original owner speaks up, I bet this > one will be Disabled too regardless of it condition. I guess I can see the > point that a cache needs an owner, a point of contact. Having to apply for > a new cache at the location > seems extreme but this is how GC tries to have control. > > > On 9/28/07, Jason Poulter wrote: > > > > Thats a bunch of crap.... > > > > I think I will get around to making a section on the azgeocaching site > > were we can list our own caches and thus keep caches like this alive and > > all nazi tactics at gc can be circumnavigated.... > > > > jason > > snaptek > > > > Gale wrote: > > > I feel quite badly about this. I tried to preserve an old cache, and > > > this is what happens. Link here. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking > > > > > > Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes > > > On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so: > > > "Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- > > > "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!" > > > > > > Rudyard Kipling , The Explorer 1898 > > > > > > Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers > > > < > > http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48255/*http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/_ylc=X3oDMTI5MGx2aThyBF9TAzIxMTU1MDAzNTIEX3MDMzk2NTQ1MTAzBHNlYwNCQUJwaWxsYXJfTklfMzYwBHNsawNQcm9kdWN0X3F1ZXN0aW9uX3BhZ2U-?link=list&sid=396545433>from > > > > > someone who knows. > > > Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > > > Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > > > To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: > > > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > > > > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > > > http://www.azgeocaching.com > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > > Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > > To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: > > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > > http://www.azgeocaching.com > > > > ------------------------------ > > ____________________________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit:http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resourcehttp://www.azgeocaching.com > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com > >