How to recover Drafts on Geocaching.com upload

[+NDOkie]

I attempted to upload my field notes from Garmin 64s as normal. I neglected to uncheck the "ignore before such date". The ignore date was only an hour before my upload and I have more than 100 finds to log. How can I reset the text file from my handheld so that it uploads all of the caches (duplicates would be OK at this point). Is there a time stamp trick I can perform to make the file upload?

[+noncentric]

Can't you just upload the same text file, but be sure to uncheck the "ignore before" box? That would upload all the field notes in your Garmin. I don't think you need to do anything to the text file itself.

[+NDOkie]

Can't you just upload the same text file, but be sure to uncheck the "ignore before" box? That would upload all the field notes in your Garmin. I don't think you need to do anything to the text file itself.

 

Nope, that does not work. That would be too simple, but it should work that way.

[+noncentric]

That's really odd. Personally, I wouldn't want to mess with changing all the timestamps in the geocache_visits.txt file. You could try it though, maybe replace all "2017-04-" with "2017-05-". But I'd worry that the 'ignore before' box would end up with a May 2017 date, which could make your uploads difficult for the next month.

 

If it was me, I'd open the geocache_visits.txt file on your GPSr and copy all the relevant rows into a new temp.txt file on your computer. Then upload that temp.txt file via the Field Notes upload page, with the "ignore before" box unchecked. Maybe close and re-open your web browser beforehand. It really should work that way. If that doesn't work, then I'm not sure other hacks to the text file itself will help.

 

Good luck!