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I have tried the Magellan software, but don't seem to be able to get the Mac to work with it, the software is window's based. Is there a windows to mac thing I need too? The software is for Windows OS machines only. Forget about it. Connect your eXplorist GC to your mac via the supplied USB cable. Turn on your eXplorist GC. After a while you will see, on the eXplorist GC, an option to connect to PC. Select Connect to PC. (Don't believe the marketing. A mac is a PC.) After a while you see a new drive on your desktop called MAGELLAN. Place your PQs in the Geocache folder on the MAGELLAN drive. Here is a youtube video that someone did. These same instructions can be found on page 32 of your users manual. If you have misplaced your users manual you can download a PDF version at http://support.magellangps.com/support/assets/manuals/Magellan_eXploristGC_UserHandbook.pdf The instructions that you can use with your mac are; Installing Geocaches with Drag ‘n Drop, Installing Pocket Queries from E-mail, and Uploading Field Notes and Logs from Receiver. Just substitute the term PC for mac in your head. Any instruction for VantagePoint or Magellan Communicator are for Windows machines only. Glenn, thank you for the info. This is the way I have gotten the caches to load, for the most part. Seems like not all will load onto the GPS. I have dragged a few gpx files onto the computer and then drag them onto the Magellan, but when I restart the Magellan, not all of them appear to be loaded. Think I'm going to try just one at a time and see if that helps out. What if the Magellan never autoloads onto the MAC? Mine is still not recognizing the GPSr & I've followed the directions above.

This is correct. Those caches weren't "automated." They were just pre-loaded at the factory, and they were probably out of date by the time you got your unit anyway. Deleting them when you received the unit was the correct thing to do. The GPSr doesn't have any way to get caches on its own. You have to plug it in to a computer and load it yourself to get up-to-date cache information and more caches in your own area rather than all over the world. The thing you need to do, if you're a premium member, is the setup a pocket query on Geocaching.com. Then you can delete all of the preloaded caches on the unit, which is only loaded on the unit as a sample. Once you've setup the pocket query and had to run here on the Geocaching site you can then load it to the unit in a number of ways. You can download the pocket query onto your computer and then connect your GC to your computer and drag and drop the unzipped file into the geocaching directory on GC or you can use an automated softare program like Magellan's Vantage Point Software or the GSAK software that is available at http://www.gsak.net. If you would like some instruction on this, I have a video on Youtube , please understand that creating videos isn't my thing, but I made this to help people out. Please forgive the quality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40ZsZhlY_MU Hope this helps, David Magellan Insider I cannot seem to figure out where I can find Vantage Point for my MAC computer. Do they make it? I am stuck on that part of your video, David. Sorry, I should have included that in the instructions. Neither Vantage Point or GSAK is available for the MAC. With the MAC you will need to create the Pocket Query(PQ) and have it run. Then you can download the PQ from the Geocaching website, which can be found on a "Pocket Queries Ready for Download" tab on the Pocket page. Once you've downloaded the pocket query, if you had the site compress it into a ZIP file, you'll need to unzip (uncompress) the file. Then you can connect your GSP to your MAC and drag-n-drop the .gpx file into the Geocache directory on the GPS. If the PQ came in ZIP format, it will have two files included in it. I would only drag-n-drop the one that does not have the "wpts" added onto the end of file name. If you do want to use the child waypoints contained in the file with the "wpts", which sometimes does add useful information, i.e., suggest parking locations and the such, you can drag-n-drop the file with the "wpts" into the waypoints directory on the GC. I hope this helps, David Magellan Insider Perfect! Where do I drop it? I tried the Maccaching.com APP but it seems to limit Magella caches to 200 & isn't recognizing my Explorist. I am still trying to get my MAC to recognize the Magellan, IN the meantime, how do I log into the geocaching website on the Magellan? I see I can view stats and everything but no idea how to make them mine.

This is correct. Those caches weren't "automated." They were just pre-loaded at the factory, and they were probably out of date by the time you got your unit anyway. Deleting them when you received the unit was the correct thing to do. The GPSr doesn't have any way to get caches on its own. You have to plug it in to a computer and load it yourself to get up-to-date cache information and more caches in your own area rather than all over the world. The thing you need to do, if you're a premium member, is the setup a pocket query on Geocaching.com. Then you can delete all of the preloaded caches on the unit, which is only loaded on the unit as a sample. Once you've setup the pocket query and had to run here on the Geocaching site you can then load it to the unit in a number of ways. You can download the pocket query onto your computer and then connect your GC to your computer and drag and drop the unzipped file into the geocaching directory on GC or you can use an automated softare program like Magellan's Vantage Point Software or the GSAK software that is available at http://www.gsak.net. If you would like some instruction on this, I have a video on Youtube , please understand that creating videos isn't my thing, but I made this to help people out. Please forgive the quality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40ZsZhlY_MU Hope this helps, David Magellan Insider I cannot seem to figure out where I can find Vantage Point for my MAC computer. Do they make it? I am stuck on that part of your video, David. Sorry, I should have included that in the instructions. Neither Vantage Point or GSAK is available for the MAC. With the MAC you will need to create the Pocket Query(PQ) and have it run. Then you can download the PQ from the Geocaching website, which can be found on a "Pocket Queries Ready for Download" tab on the Pocket page. Once you've downloaded the pocket query, if you had the site compress it into a ZIP file, you'll need to unzip (uncompress) the file. Then you can connect your GSP to your MAC and drag-n-drop the .gpx file into the Geocache directory on the GPS. If the PQ came in ZIP format, it will have two files included in it. I would only drag-n-drop the one that does not have the "wpts" added onto the end of file name. If you do want to use the child waypoints contained in the file with the "wpts", which sometimes does add useful information, i.e., suggest parking locations and the such, you can drag-n-drop the file with the "wpts" into the waypoints directory on the GC. I hope this helps, David Magellan Insider Perfect! Where do I drop it? I tried the Maccaching.com APP but it seems to limit Magella caches to 200 & isn't recognizing my Explorist.

This is correct. Those caches weren't "automated." They were just pre-loaded at the factory, and they were probably out of date by the time you got your unit anyway. Deleting them when you received the unit was the correct thing to do. The GPSr doesn't have any way to get caches on its own. You have to plug it in to a computer and load it yourself to get up-to-date cache information and more caches in your own area rather than all over the world. The thing you need to do, if you're a premium member, is the setup a pocket query on Geocaching.com. Then you can delete all of the preloaded caches on the unit, which is only loaded on the unit as a sample. Once you've setup the pocket query and had to run here on the Geocaching site you can then load it to the unit in a number of ways. You can download the pocket query onto your computer and then connect your GC to your computer and drag and drop the unzipped file into the geocaching directory on GC or you can use an automated softare program like Magellan's Vantage Point Software or the GSAK software that is available at http://www.gsak.net. If you would like some instruction on this, I have a video on Youtube , please understand that creating videos isn't my thing, but I made this to help people out. Please forgive the quality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40ZsZhlY_MU Hope this helps, David Magellan Insider I cannot seem to figure out where I can find Vantage Point for my MAC computer. Do they make it? I am stuck on that part of your video, David.

Please tell me the process you used to load the caches onto the unit so I can help? David Magellan Insider I have never loaded new caches. The unit downloaded the caches when I turned it on but that was it.

The GC comes loaded with what Magellan feels are worldwide great caches. I deleted all of them and loaded those nearby with a PQ and GSAK. So once I delete the caches that are loaded the first time I turn it on, then I can only load from the geocache website? No more automated caches?

I have the same sort of question. I bought the Explorist GC yesterday and when I first loaded it, many caches appeared automatically but I was not near where I was geocaching. I deleted them all thinking the close ones would reload when it picked up the signal again. This did NOT happen & now my geo cache list is EMPTY. Without downloading from the site and plugging in my Explorist GC, is there a way to "refresh" the cache list?