![]() ![]() Where we're camping is near a town that has several caches. Many people seem to not be able to use Communicator even after supposedly following steps that should cause it to work.Not dead in the water for this weekend. I'll see if I can use "Send To", but my own PC settings aren't always all that useful. I installed Win 10 this week, and I'm still setting it up. Haven't been out yet to try it out, but will this evening. They're on my Nuvi, and your right it gives road directions even though I have it set for Pedestrian. As an added bonus, you may load Pocket Queries with much the same manual process. It works so much better that way in your favorite browser and OS, you'll be glad you switched. I would humbly suggest, please stop using Communicator and manage all GPSr files manually. If it doesn't, the file did not get sent to the GPSr. But I already posted the solution which avoids the craziness of Communicator for Nuvi and most Garman GPSrs.Įdge is not allowing Communicator to run, as others have mentioned.įor the OP, in Communicator after clicking Write, be sure the Communicator window shows "Geocache GC5DFB.gpx saved successfully". As JimmyM says, after I upgrade FF, it may be broken. But this was all installed and configured prior to upgrading to Win 10, and Firefox is downloading a new version at this moment, so again, this may all change without notice. I tried it in Firefox 30.0, and this morning it worked as always, files, messages and all. The Communicator window never shows "Geocache GC5DFB.gpx saved successfully". Communicator is definitely broken now, in a weird way that almost looks like it's working, except for one important difference. If I delete the file from the GPSr, there's no warning this time, it goes throuth the motions, but again, the file is not sent, it is not on the GPSr. The file did not change (the new one was not sent). In IE 11, I go to a cache page and click "Send to GPS", and if the file exists on the GPSr, there's a warning that the file will be overwritten, so I clicked "OK". But today, it's behaving quite a but differently in IE 11, after upgrading to Windows 10. That is, one day it worked in Firefox, the previous week it worked in Chrome, just keep switching browsers and for this moment it's fine. I'm seeing what the OP experienced.īefore upgrading to Windows 10 yesterday, Garmin Communicator worked as expected. The solution presented many times in this forum is change from edge to IE and all will be well. Many people seem to not be able to use Communicator even after supposedly following steps that should cause it to work. ![]() And you may later have to delete both the GPX file and the saved "POI" cache location, for each GPX file you load. The Nuvi is not optimized to store GPX files. But I did find two caches using a Nuvi, by watching the Lan/Lon count down to the cache spot. Remember that a Nuvi routes on roads, requires extra work to set it to off-road (mine keeps finding roads for me, regardless of the settings), and even then may be kinda unsuitable for Geocaching for bunch of reasons. Once it's selected, you may also see some limited cache info such as the cache name. Right-click and select Eject, unplug the Garminįor a Nuvi, look in the Saved locations in its menu, for the GC Code of the cache. Therein, locate a file folder named Garmin/GPX/Ĭlick, drag and drop (or copy) the downloaded GPX file(s) to that :Garmin/GPX/ folder. Plug the Garmin into the USB port of the computer.įind the Garmin as a or and open it Here's a way to download and install GPX files without Garmin Communicator:Ĭlick the button labeled “GPX File”, and save it.
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