Waypoints not (always) saved

Hi Auric

i have demand for better understanding,

> When we arrived there, I tapped the waypoint, edited it to add a description (so that I could remember which waypoint it was)

understand, presupposed you mean WPT in cache description

>then tapped the "geocaching" icon and added the newly found waypoint using the sidebar so that I could activate the guide line

this description is not clear for me, please describe it more detailed e.g. with screenshots or screencast

Wolfgang

After editing the waypoint, I tap the button at the bottom left (02.png)

I then tap the same icon in the bottom right (03.PNG) then add the new waypoint (04.PNG)

The waypoint is there. But I noticed later when I tapped the geocache point and viewed the waypoints, not all of them were there (two or three missing). Even more later, all waypoints were back so I didn't pay attention to it, until they all were lost yesterday.

Puh, difficult task

please take a look in your settings

menue/settings/Geocaching/Keep data during import

is this option unchecked and you have done " update cache" in the meantime?

The option is enabled but I didn't update the cache.

I understand it is something difficult. Take your time ;-)

Hello Auric,

firstly @balloni55, thanks for a help. I'm trying to play with this and well ... it works.

Unfortunately here as in many other cases, only way how to fix it, is to reproduce this problem. So I need exact steps that will cause same problem.

I'll look at it carefully, but unfortunately I do not have time on long multi-caches so it is not a surprise I miss such problem even if it exists.

So if anyone notice any problem with waypoints like you, please try to remember and later write me exact step by steps, so I'll be able to simulate it.

I'm sorry for your loss, hope you enjoyed your trip and also hope you will be able to compute points again from some clues.

Yesterday, I reconstructed the entire walk and right now, I have exactly the same issue.

What I did:

• I worked on the geocache where only four waypoints (two have the icon "reference point", one has "virtual stage" and one has Physical stage)
• I created 12 more waypoints with names WP3 until WP14 (yes, I had to change their name because the waypoints two and three are points we found but didn't belong to the cache we're following)
• I closed Locus, waited a few minutes, even closed Locus (from memory by swiping it out) and found they were still there. Ok for now
• Then I started editing them. I opened the cache, I opened a waypoint from it, i tapped the coordinates so that I could modify them, then I tapped the "arrow up" icon at the bottom right and chose "edit" so that I could edit the description and saved it.
• I went back to the waypoint list as described above (tapping the button at the bottom left) and chose the next waypoint. I edited it the same way: first the coordinates, then the description. I modified all 12 (wp3 until wp14) the same way. For some I edited the coordinates by entering the numbers, for some I chose from the map because I didn't have the exact coordinates
• I checked and all seemed ok
• I closed Locus. that was yesterday. today, I opened it to find only wp7 until wp14 being saved. The others are back to the situation where I left them right after "adding all 14 waypoints then close Locus"

So this is reproducable. Probably not easy to find out where this is going wrong because the last 7 are saved :-)

Hi,

2 days ago I added a similar issue about waypoints: http://help.locusmap.eu/topic/geocache-multiple-problems-with-waypoints.

Maybe they are related, what do you think?

Hello guys,

thanks to very precise description of rvheddeg (thank you for it!) I was able to simulate same problem on own device. For my big surprise I spend on this half of second day (fortunately out is really bad weather) and result is completely rewrote background system how Locus works with geocache waypoints. I'm unfortunately aware that such big change may cause some new troubles. But hope not :). You will see in next Locus version (or in Beta version).

EDIT: description from @rvheddeg is unfortunately not visible because of merged topics