[Garmin Dakota 10 plug in issue]

Difficult to diagnose remotely! What autoplay? You say it gives you options, what are they?

 

Which Windows version are you running? What is the 'something' and what does it say about your browser bar? Are you running IE or another browser?

 

Thanks for all your help, I realise that it is difficult to sort out like this, I have soooo had enough now that I think I will just give up, I am so disapointed as I have been waiting for the GPS to arrive and now that it has I cant use it

 

Thanks again

[Garmin Dakota 10 plug in issue]

Also this autoplay thing keeps popping up, what do I need to do with that? it gives a few options.

[Garmin Dakota 10 plug in issue]

Check your firewall and/or parental controls aren't blocking the download

 

Both ok, thanks for sticking with me on this problem

 

Just spotted something that says I might need to enable it on my browser bar? I am so thick! how do I do that?

[Garmin Dakota 10 plug in issue]

What have you done to install the plug in? Go here:

 

http://www8.garmin.com/products/communicator/

 

while your Dakota is connected to your PC. You'll either be prompted to install the plug in or you'll be told it's installed and working.

 

Yes that is what keeps coming up, I click to install but its not happening, well I get the spinny thing then nothing to say it is installed, so I tried the other choice on there and no luck with that either.

 

It is a pc by the way.

[Garmin Dakota 10 plug in issue]

I am trying to send some geocaches to my new Dakota 10 (using the correct lead) and it keeps telling me to plugin not detected, so I should download something from Garmin which I have tried to do but it just wont work please help I am so frustrated!!

[Specific USB Cable?]

Suggest you start a new thread, this isn't a cable issue but a plug in issue

 

I just thought it might be a related issue but I will start a new thread.

[Specific USB Cable?]

Well thanks everyone - that's all very useful stuff

 

AND it explains why sometimes my Blackberry won't charge from mt lighter jack and at other times it will - I'm prob trying to use the GPS USB cable instead of the charging cable - or something like that

 

How do you know all this stuff ???

 

Thanks again - I shall be nerdy and stick a label on the right cable, saying "GARMIN ONLY"

 

This is an interesting topic! I have just bought the Garmin Dakota 10 and have been using the supplied cable to try and send some geocaches to it but it wont recognise that the cable is conected, it keeps telling me to download a plugin or something, which I have tried to do but it just wont work, HELP I am close to a breakdown!!!

[Just bought a Garmin Dakota 10]

Spec says 850 MB so you should be fine

 

Oh thats good, as you can tell I am not very good with technology! I wouldnt have a clue about how much space each thing required, well I can get loading up my GPS now then

[Retrieved or grabbed...confused?]

A "grab" log is used to pickup a trackable from anywhere other than a cache that it is logged into, such as a hand-off; a cache it was sitting in without be logged into; hanging in a tree; etc.

 

A "retrieve" log is use to (properly) log a pickup of a trackable from a cache that it has been logged into.

 

Regarding your quote, this happens when there is a time delay between placing it into a cache and actually logging the process online.

 

This time delay can be as little as 5 minutes or so.... it happens. It bothers some, but mostly they grow out of that concern.

 

Generally this happens when the next cacher to come along thinks the TB or GC isn't properly logged into that cache -- true, it hasn't been, YET! They are unaware that it may have been placed just minutes before they came across it, and you have not yet had time to log such.

 

There are ways to correct such action, but really, it's not worth getting one's shorts into a knot over it.

 

Thanks, that is making much more sense to me now!

[Retrieved or grabbed...confused?]

I was reading up about TBs and dont understand what is meant by "someone grabbed the TB before you logged it"? I have read and reread but still cant get it! any help?

[Just bought a Garmin Dakota 10]

No problem, you can load PQs etc into the internal memory

Thanks for quick reply, so do you know if I create some routes and load them and also add all my local caches in PQ form is that going to use up loads of available memory?

[Just bought a Garmin Dakota 10]

Hi everyone, this is my first post so be kind!

I have just recieved my new GPS a Gamin Dakota 10 and so I have been reading up on what I need to do next, I have a slight worry now that I have realised it does not have the facility to take a card? will this mean that I wont be able to add PQs and create routes? or am I worrying for no reason? this is my first ever GPS so am very new to all the technology!