Problems Syncing and Garbled Listings

[dbitting]

Hi.

I decided that for $10 I'd give Cache Register a shot on my MacBook Pro. Up to now, I've just been loading caches from Topo8 running on a VM image. However, the promise of easy (easier?) cache management lured me into trying CR out. Immediately, I have run into two big issues.

First of all, I tried to load 2 PQs onto my device. To do this, I first removed all cache listings from my device except my solved puzzle caches, which aren't covered by the PQs, anyway. Then, I fired up the widget and connected my PN-20, entered all my information, selected the desired PQ and hit Sync. Figuring this would take a while (s l o o o w USB interface, ugh), I went about my business. A few seconds later, I noticed the PN-20 was no longer in "USB Transfer" mode. I flipped back to the dashboard widget and see that only ~130 of the ~450 caches were loaded onto the unit. Grumble, grumble, grumble. I had to hit Sync no fewer than 10 times to get all the caches from my 2 PQs onto my device. This isn't exactly useful, nor confidence inspiring.

The next thing I was curious about was how CacheRegister handled waypoints associated with cache listings (I've never really used them), so I went and took a look at the waypoint listing, noted the closest waypoint name and then switched over to the cache listing (GC1NE8A) on the PN-20. Well, the cache listing begins in the middle of the 2nd log entry (from fizzymagic), which isn't terribly useful.

Finally, one thing I noticed was that I could always tell if the sync operation completed successfully or not. After both sync operations that finished off their respective PQ, the PN-20 updated the list of caches at which I was looking. However, on all the other aborted tries, the cache listing did not update even though there were new caches on the unit.

It was a interesting waste of time, but I'm not really feeling like I got $10 worth out of this. Back to just using TOPO8, I guess, and DeLorme gets a $10 donation and some "free" QA.

[RRLover]

I have several questions that may help your level of assistance.
What firmware is on device, and are you using the Cache Register
natively in Mac, or the Windows version via emulation?
I suspect corruption in the Cache/Waypoints on device, or possibly an
issue w/the Cache Register install by the symptom description.
Battery level up? Is the 'on device' selection made to "power from USB"?
Sorry my device is an 40, not to familiar with the 20, although I 'think'
it's the same regarding CR.

Norm

[dbitting]

Thanks for the reply, Norm.

After some searching around the forums, I tried resetting the waypoint file on the device as noted in a different posting. I was then able to sync with CR with no problems. The comment detail mangling, however, persists.

I will also point out that, before resetting the waypoint file on the device, I tried CR both natively on the Mac, and in my VM. Both exhibited the same problem.

After resetting the waypoint file on the PN-20, I only used the Mac CR. No need to tempt fate by trying both.