Duplicate logs on geocaching.com

[+yxza]

Good evening (at least in Sweden) and Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to all of you.

I have slightly irritating problem that popped up about 1 - 2 weeks ago. I all of a sudden noticed that my find count in GSAK did not match Geocaching.com's.

After some investigations I found that the logs I had made online were duplicated. I'm certain I have not double clicked the send log button but despite that

some, strangely not all, lately found caches have two identically logs entered by me.

Any ideas someone?

 

Regards

Hans/YXZA

Edited December 29, 2016 by yxza

[+TriciaG]

If you use an app and log in the field, it's possible that the app didn't think the log was sent successfully, so it sent it again.

[+yxza]

If you use an app and log in the field, it's possible that the app didn't think the log was sent successfully, so it sent it again.

Hello, thanks for quick answer.

No, I never (well...) log in the field, just from my desktop when I get home. I hate writing those long logs on the iPhone.

Edited December 29, 2016 by yxza

[+hzoi]

If you use the Bad Logs tool on project-gc.com you should be able to sniff out the duplicates. But it doesn't seem you have any, so I guess you cleaned them up.

 

As to why it happened, possibly a network error, the same thing that would cause the mobile app to submit duplicate logs.

[+Namzat]

If you use the Bad Logs tool on project-gc.com you should be able to sniff out the duplicates. But it doesn't seem you have any, so I guess you cleaned them up.

 

As to why it happened, possibly a network error, the same thing that would cause the mobile app to submit duplicate logs.

 

While on this topic:

 

Is it possible to log a cache more than once and will it actually show as an additional find for each log?

Is it possible to log your own caches as finds and will it show as a find on your stats?

[+kunarion]

Is it possible to log a cache more than once and will it actually show as an additional find for each log?

Is it possible to log your own caches as finds and will it show as a find on your stats?

Yes. And yes.

 

I adopted two caches, one of which I had previously found. I then found the other, so I logged it as a Find. This is tallied as expected, except in the official Challenge Checker, which considers those two to be unfound.

 

In rare cases it may make sense to log a Find more than once. Maybe on a traveling cache. I don't know, I never felt the need to make more than one log. But it certainly increments the stats if you do that.

Edited January 9, 2017 by kunarion

[+hzoi]

Is it possible to log your own caches as finds and will it show as a find on your stats?

It is possible. It is not the norm, in fact I'd consider it the exception to the rule -- after all, of course you can find the cache, you hid it. If you're looking for discussion on that, though, there are plenty of discussions you can find by searching the forums for logging your own cache.

[+yxza]

this is beginning to be a nuisance. every second or third cache i log online from pc results in duplicate logs. so i have to get back in and delete one of the logs. anyone has any ideas why? Groundspeak? and stick to the subject please.

logging of own caches e.g. plz start a new thread

[+MartyBartfast]

this is beginning to be a nuisance. every second or third cache i log online from pc results in duplicate logs. so i have to get back in and delete one of the logs. anyone has any ideas why? Groundspeak? and stick to the subject please.

logging of own caches e.g. plz start a new thread

 

Log it through the Help Centre (link at the bottom of all the geocaching.com pages), rather than hoping someone on here might have some ideas.

[+The A-Team]

this is beginning to be a nuisance. every second or third cache i log online from pc results in duplicate logs. so i have to get back in and delete one of the logs. anyone has any ideas why? Groundspeak? and stick to the subject please.

logging of own caches e.g. plz start a new thread

How are you submitting the logs? Through the website, GSAK, or some other way? Without knowing how you're logging, we can't provide much advice on where the problem may be.

 

Edit for speeling

Edited February 3, 2017 by The A-Team

[+niraD]

this is beginning to be a nuisance. every second or third cache i log online from pc results in duplicate logs. so i have to get back in and delete one of the logs. anyone has any ideas why? Groundspeak?

When I've gotten duplicate logs/posts, I think it has been because my browser has re-transmitted the HTTP request. Sometimes it looks like the first attempt failed, when it posted just fine, but the confirmation failed. When I try again, I end up actually creating a duplicate log/post.

 

Double-clicking on the final "send this log/post" link can also create duplicate logs/posts, because each click sends a separate request.

 

But this is just a guess, based on what I've seen.

[+yxza]

this is beginning to be a nuisance. every second or third cache i log online from pc results in duplicate logs. so i have to get back in and delete one of the logs. anyone has any ideas why? Groundspeak? and stick to the subject please.

logging of own caches e.g. plz start a new thread

How are you submitting the logs? Through the website, GSAK, or some other way? Without knowing how you're logging, we can't provide much advice on where the problem may be.

 

Edit for speeling

Logging as always through the "Log a new visit" on the home page of the cache.

[Pup Patrol]

this is beginning to be a nuisance. every second or third cache i log online from pc results in duplicate logs. so i have to get back in and delete one of the logs. anyone has any ideas why? Groundspeak? and stick to the subject please.

logging of own caches e.g. plz start a new thread

How are you submitting the logs? Through the website, GSAK, or some other way? Without knowing how you're logging, we can't provide much advice on where the problem may be.

 

Edit for speeling

Logging as always through the "Log a new visit" on the home page of the cache.

 

If it's still happening, you need to contact Groundspeak. No one who can help is reading these forums. You might have lucked out if you had posted this in the "Website Bug Reports" forum.

 

Email Us

http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=request

 

B.

[+edscott]

I've been seeing duplicate logs on lots of caches over the past year or more. Those that appear on my caches get deleted and email the "finder" that I've eliminated the extra entries. No one has complained. Tonight, while looking over some caches to do later this week, I found my first "Double Duplicate". Yes, four consecutive found it logs on a cache by the same account. This was not an equipment malfunction... Each of the four "found it" logs have a different comment. I realize there are a few rare cases where duplicate logs might be appropriate. I have some from years ago when a monthly event went under the same GC code for a couple years, But why not have a tab that the CO can activate that prevents duplicate logs on their cache.