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ajlepel

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I have tried everything to find an answer before writing this problem and failed. So here goes.

Background...I am accessing Geocaching.com on my MacBook Pro and I have an iPhone 6 (mine) and an iPhone 6S (friends) both with Cachly apps installed.

Using Geocaching.com I created a vacation route. Then I performed a PQ for geocaches along the route. All good so far. When the PQ was ready I did a download from the "Pocket Queries Ready for Download" And the PQ was automatically downloaded to MY iPhone 6 without any problem. I saved it to an offline list....and I'm happy.

Then I tried exactly the same function and tried to download the PQ to my friends iPhone 6S and NOTHING! I tried this repeatedly and I could not get the PQ I created along a route to my friends iPhone 6S.

Why is this happening? Can I not create a PQ and download it to another cellphone? Is my cellphone exclusive to geocaching.com and/or Cachly? Should I have turned off my cellphone completely so that only my friends cellphone is on?

How can I download a PQ from my computer to a friends cellphone? Thanks in advance for any help offered.

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9 minutes ago, ajlepel said:

Then I tried exactly the same function and tried to download the PQ to my friends iPhone 6S and NOTHING! I tried this repeatedly and I could not get the PQ I created along a route to my friends iPhone 6S.

I assume you are meaning you are importing a GPX of the PQ? How are you sending it to your phone and to your friends phone for import?

Are you using the same version of Cachly? What do you mean by nothing? Did it show the Import GPX dialog? If so, what happened when you chose a location and tapped Import?

10 minutes ago, ajlepel said:

Can I not create a PQ and download it to another cellphone? Is my cellphone exclusive to geocaching.com and/or Cachly? Should I have turned off my cellphone completely so that only my friends cellphone is on?

Absolutely you can. Not exclusive. Turning cellphone off wouldn't matter at all.

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It would also be helpful to diagnose this if you provide a little more info for each step.  You created a PQ from a route on Geocaching.com. PQs are specific to your account so no one else can access them directly from Groundspeak. Now a PQ that is downloaded to your computer or iPhone can be shared as a zip or GPX file and this is where you need to provide some specifics. 

You posted: I tried exactly the same function and tried to download the PQ to my friends iPhone 6S and NOTHING! 

Is your friend using Cachly or the official app? Is your friend using your Geocaching.com account or do they have their own? Were they downloading it from the geocaching.com site or did you sent it to them via email, dropbox, etc?

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Thank you for the quick responses.

I do not know the answer about using a GPX file. Here is all that I did. Once my PQ was completed on Geocaching.com I went to the download page and clicked on "Pocket Queries Ready for Download". I selected the file and then waited. After a period of time it appeared on my Cachly App by going to More>Pocket Queries. I then selected the PQ and it downloaded to my iPhone and listed it on the Offline page. 

I used my computer and my Geocaching.com app with my UserID. I thought I could download from my Geocaching.com on my computer to my friends iPhone. 

My friend does posses her own Geocaching.com app. on a Windows based computer and does have her own uptodate Cachly app on her iPhone 6S. I was not using her computer with her app. I was trying to download the PQ from my MacBook Pro computer to her cellphone. I'm beginning to think that the UserID on my Geocaching.com app matches the UserID on my iPhone and that is why everything runs so automatically and smoothly. My friends unique UserID of her iPhone 6S is what keeps her phone from receiving the PQ I ran on my computer.

I apologize for not understanding your instruction about API and GPX. Not understanding, the download to my cellphone from my computer seems to work without my doing anything that I am aware of. 

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There are a couple of ways to get your friends cachly the same data. If you're not manipulating it further in Cachly and just want to load the same PQ you downloaded from the geocaching.com site, create a new email to your friend and attach the PQ Zip file you can download from Geocaching.com. When she gets the email on her iPhone, she should be able to open the email/attachment. I use Gmail and when I open the attachment it shows there's a zip file and the size but shows the Share icon in the bottom of the gmail program. Click Share and she should see the standard iPhone share window and "Copy to Cachly" should be listed though she might have to scroll. If she clicks that, Cachly should launch and then will display the Import GPX screen in Cachly where there is some fine grain options. 

Does that do what you need?

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Thanks Everyone for your prompt help. I believe what I am going to do and should have done is to log onto my friends Geocaching.com app with her UserID on my computer. Than I will create the route and run a PQ for that route, just like I did for myself. I'll then download the PQ to her iPhone 6S. It would seem that this is easier and more readily understand by myself. I can see that what caused the problem was the UserID differences between Geocaching.com app and my friends cellphone. 

Thank you all for your help. Cachly is still the BEST.  

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