transfer your cache listing to gca [closed]

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 12 January 05 3:14 pm

if you wish to transfer your cache listings to geocaching australia, just use these four handy access steps!

1. archive your cache listing on the secondary site
2. edit your cache listing on geocaching australia by going to your "my" page on geocaching australia and selecting the "edit" link next to the cache you wish to transfer
3. go to the section which says "Home listing site" and select "Geocaching Australia"
3a. if your cache is listed as archived on this site, change it to "available"
4. press save and you're done!

if you have a lot of caches and don't want to to this manually, let us know which caches you want to transfer and we can do steps 2-4 automatically for you

if you have any problems, please let us know here and we'll walk you through it (there could still be some bugs, etc)

** edited to add step 3a

Gunn Parker · Post by **Gunn Parker** » 12 January 05 4:38 pm

Dumb question time, but where do Il ook it up once I have edited it

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 12 January 05 4:53 pm

there are a few ways
- after you press save, you should get a link to the cache page, or
- you could enter it or your name in the search bar at the top and you should see it listed there
- you could select the "my" tab and click on it in the list
- you could click on the relevant state tab and you should see it there (note: these pages are only updated every hour on the hour, so have a look at it after the hour ticks over)

hope this helps

Geof · Post by **Geof** » 12 January 05 8:56 pm

Step 1a Go out and put a geocaching australia "stash note" in the cache.

Horus · Post by **Horus** » 12 January 05 10:51 pm

Geof wrote:Step 1a Go out and put a geocaching australia "stash note" in the cache.

Bugga - I was hoping no one was going to bring that up

bmac · Post by **bmac** » 14 January 05 3:56 am

What happens if you skip step 1 - effectively listing the cache details on both sites? Does it put Gremlins in the system? You can already log find on gca, even for caches hosted by gc, can't you?

bmac.

Post by **CraigRat** » 14 January 05 7:26 am

Horus wrote:
Geof wrote:Step 1a Go out and put a geocaching australia "stash note" in the cache.

Bugga - I was hoping no one was going to bring that up

I'll give you a lift to change the note in 'You've got to be Joking'

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 14 January 05 9:30 am

bmac wrote:What happens if you skip step 1 - effectively listing the cache details on both sites? Does it put Gremlins in the system? You can already log find on gca, even for caches hosted by gc, can't you?

if you skip step 1, the cache will be listed as a GCA cache until the overnight feed resets it to be a secondary site cache. this is to avoid dual listing. for more details on dual listing, see the dual listing faq

Mind Socket · Post by **Mind Socket** » 14 January 05 9:33 am

bmac wrote:You can already log find on gca, even for caches hosted by gc, can't you?

Yes, but again I would strongly suggest you don't do it. GCxxxx caches should be listed and logged only on gc.com, GAxxxx caches can only be listed and logged on gca. The reason you can log a GCxxxx cache on gca is to pick up logs that have not transferred across.

- Rog

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 14 January 05 10:04 am

we agree with mind socket. this appears to be a frequently asked question so we have created a logging secondary-listed caches on gca faq for it

Horus · Post by **Horus** » 14 January 05 2:21 pm

CraigRat wrote:
Horus wrote:
Geof wrote:Step 1a Go out and put a geocaching australia "stash note" in the cache.

Bugga - I was hoping no one was going to bring that up

I'll give you a lift to change the note in 'You've got to be Joking'

I'll bring a deck chair so I can sit back and watch you when we get there . . . oh and a pair of binoculars