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I probably just didn't look very far, but I have not found anything that gives me a simple answer to this...

 

I have a meager 512 finds. When I do a "MY FINDS" PQ, it only gives me 500. I seem to be missing 12. Is there a maximum of 500 for the PQ like the rest of them that I have? 279 of them have been archived so far, so I am sure that isn't the case, since those archived ones come in.

 

Please be gentle when telling me it is just a simple box check I missed!

 

SLJ

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I probably just didn't look very far, but I have not found anything that gives me a simple answer to this...

 

I have a meager 512 finds. When I do a "MY FINDS" PQ, it only gives me 500. I seem to be missing 12. Is there a maximum of 500 for the PQ like the rest of them that I have? 279 of them have been archived so far, so I am sure that isn't the case, since those archived ones come in.

 

Please be gentle when telling me it is just a simple box check I missed!

 

SLJ

 

Using the "My Finds" query (just to be sure - the one below the PQ list) does not have the PQ limitation. My first thought if you have 512 finds and it only returns 500, that tells me you have 12 finds logged on previously logged caches. Maybe multiple attended logs on events? Double or triple logged some caches? Something like that. I'm sure others with other thoughts will be along soon.

 

BTW - PQs max out at 1,000. Results with 500 or fewer caches are emailed to you. 501-1000 resulting caches are not attached to the email and must be downloaded manually.

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You have 512 logs on 503 unique caches. This means that you have multiple logs. One of your Finds is a cache that you later adopted -- that may or may not also affect the return.

 

You say it gives you only 500, are you sure that isn't 503?

 

There is no maximum number (or distance) to a My Finds query. There are no boxes to "check" in a My Finds Query. If you are checking boxes, you are not running a My Finds.

Edited by Gitchee-Gummee
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On your stats page, I see "Zzyzx Road has found 512 caches (503 distinct) since 2005-12-15."

 

So the 9 duplicate finds can explain getting 503 caches in the My Finds PQ, but not 500.

 

The other thought I had was that you might have logged some of the experimental Geocaching Labs caches. They increase your raw find count, but are otherwise ignored in your statistics, PQs, etc. But that doesn't look to be the case.

Edited by niraD
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Thank all of you for your help

 

Okay, I am not sure which are duplicate logs - I only apply for a smilie once - and up until I quit caching for a while (I use GSAK to "manage" this info) I never noticed a discrepancy between my finds in GSAK and on GC.com. So I will have to go find which are duplicates and take them out. I am puzzled though how I managed to log something that I already found.

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Okay. I found it. It was a poker run of temporary caches that our group did a few years back I logged 13 of them, three were actually new caches that stayed so those were unique. The other 10 are all as part of the event. Thank you for the help - I was able to get a column for multiple finds - so now I can find these things myself.

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