When I "Download Data" "Finds and Attempts" my count for everything other than "traditional" isn't matching up with the totals under my profile on AQ. The count for "traditional" matches and so do the totals for everything on "Plants". But for finds, I'm off on eventBox, hitchhiker, ltc, other, postal, and traveler. Some are under and some are over and the total of all is off.

Happy birthday rebiccola, sweet lady 😘

Correction:

The "traveler" and "other" totals are correct. My issues are with "eventBox", "hitchhiker", "ltc", and "postal".

I took a look at the eventBox's, and I'm not seeing a problem. Your profile shows 279 event box finds. Your logbook shows 279 event box finds. (240 listed finds and 39 unlisted finds.) And your downloaded data from the spreadsheet shows 279 event box finds (again, with 240 listed finds and 39 unlisted ones).

I haven't looked at the other types since I can't even find the problem with your event box counts. What numbers are wrong? Can you be more specific about exactly what you're counting or excluding?

-- Ryan

are the things that don't match up, unlisted and therefore showing up under the unlisted drop?

just wondering out loud to you...........

condo

ok given the numbers you shared it's the "unlisted finds" that are pulling off. I don't see the "unlisted finds" on the "Finds & Attempts" I'm downloading. Do I need to pull a separate report for those?

Ok, I get it now, didn't realize I needed to pull "Unlisted" separate. All straight now. Thank you both :)

yup, and if you are trying to track milestone finds, remember to "merge" the unlisted finds and the listed finds to find your "true milestone" box.

I am (rather belatedly) trying to make a spreadsheet to track all my plants and finds by certain criteria.

Still a bit confused. (I want to be sure it is listed correctly, as I have quite a few that follow a theme. I apologize for the lengthy clarification below, but so appreciate your knowledge!)

To clarify, I list a series as "Black Trail". Then, I add 3 boxes underneath that series (Night, Widow, Bird). These are not listed with separate AQ #s. This is the only place I added them.

Now, I add the clue which will be clues that go in order to be found. For example, the trail is a loop.... (Night) Go to the first bench. Look behind for SPOR (Widow) Count the blazes, 1-2-3, just behind the 3rd blaze, look for the large fallen tree. (Bird) Continue on towards the water. Near the boulders, look between the 2 sister trees.

After adding the clue, the series will have 1 AQ#, but each box in series, when found, will each list as a find.

So, I do not have to list each box individually, with a separate AQ#. Instead, I can list as a series, to be found all in order as mentioned above.

Is that correct?

Happy anniversary!! Hope you get to do some boxing related activities today :)

Correct.

The series has one AQ#. Each box within the series is listed individually (no AQ #) and counts as a find on each box.

Maybe this helps? It's a series I found recently.

https://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.php?boxId=362028

That is exactly what I needed, a concrete example as to how to list it! Thank you Wise Wanderer and Miss Moon!!! So helpful. Honestly, fellow boxers are such a source of encouragement and helpfulness. I appreciate you all.

you go girl! I love hearing about those that are so organized in their boxing records.

Come up and try the Chicken pot pie (hand pie)! it's my favorite,

Old Blue
There are quit a few boxes up here that you haven't found...

Thanks RIclimber! This tip helped A LOT! This time, I saw all the markers I was looking for so far. (didn't make it all the way around). Now I'm having the sneaking suspicion most of the markers ARE still there but just that the trails are so twisty and windy that I looked in the wrong places last time. Blush. I was just navigating with a paper map so it was much harder to find the intersections where the markers should be. Open Street Maps app helped SO much. Man, this place is tricky. I'm over 200 boxes and I've never been somewhere where I needed a GPS to help me.

Happy anniversary!! Hopefully you had an Inky one ;)

Thank you so much for putting this event together. I enjoy making new friends. Hope to see you at the next one.

Happy AQ Anniversary!

Shelly

Happy happy AQ-day! Here’s to many more.

I really liked "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar."

Jaxx

Happy AQ day!

I just rec’d a notification for a find on a box that is not mine, but I am listed as a ‘Foster’. That is OK, but it was a surprise to me. When Fosters are assigned, do you typically notify the person who is a foster?

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Thanks
Shelly

Happens automatically.

How is the Foster assigned? I did not volunteer it just showed up. Just curious 🧐

Shelly

I thought you meant you fostered it. As far as I know no one else can name you as a foster owner. You have to do it. I never heard of it being assigned. News to me! Does someone else have access to your account?

A while back, I happened to be looking at my stats, and saw that I was fostering a couple of boxes. I had never been notified and had no idea. They were boxes I donated to an event (listed as carver), and were left permanently planted after the event. The boxes' owner/planter had not been active for several years, and somehow I got "assigned" foster duty. They are in another state so no way am I able to care for them, so I just took myself off the boxes as a "foster".

You have to click the "foster me" button. They are not assigned automatically.

I will mention, however, that there is no confirmation about "are you sure you want to foster this box"--it happens immediately as soon as you click the button. There is a "cancel" option, but it's more of an "undo" thing. You're already a fosterer, and clicking the cancel just removes you as the fosterer. If you "return" to the box page or use the back button on your browser, you'll still be the fosterer, though.

At some point, though, you clicked the "foster me" link, which made you the foster parent, and you never removed yourself after that. It might not have been what you intended and you thought you were looking at a confirmation page (i.e. "are you sure you want to do this") rather than a confirmation page (i.e. "Congrats! You ARE the fosterer!") so didn't remove yourself.

But clicking that "foster me" link is the only way to become a foster parent. =)

-- Ryan

I suspect this is what caused the problem, so I updated the confirmation page to confirm that you really want to foster a box before assigning it, so anyone curious what the "foster me" link does doesn't inadvertently become a fosterer in the future.

Now you need to click the "foster me" link and the "Confirm" button in order to become a foster parent.

-- Ryan

How do you typically write the clues for boxes you’ve planted? Are they step-by-step, cryptic or vague, do you use ciphers, photo clues, etc?

The majority of my clues are a like a set of directions. But every now and then I throw in a photo, a code or even just a couple of words that lead you to where you will find the box.