peedieduchess
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I want to launch 4 new trackables. I made a start with the first one by changing its name, photo, mission etc. However I cannot work out how to get it back into my inventory so that I can place it in a new cache. The 'drop down' menu of possible actions has: 'move to last location' or 'recaculate distance' or 'lock'. Its very frustrating, surely this must be possible? One of the 4 that I want to resuse has been missing for NINE years! Any help would be appreciated to get 4 new trackables started on their journey.
Regards,
Peedieduchess
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HUGE loophole. Or is it intentional? You can get all the carnival souvenirs very quickly simply by asking all your friends to award favourites. They don't even need to find your cache. They could even remove a FP they gave you years ago then re-award it. Am I right? Was this meant?
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Please someone help!
Im trying to get caches onto my device using wifi, in a hotel.
I think the correct process is to connect to the wifi, which I've done; then from the geocaching home page, press the
owner button to bring up a map page with a circular refresh button which should load up nearby geocaches.
However when I press the power button all I get is a blank screen. what am I doing wrong?
I'm on holiday and forced to cache using my phone, so it's quite frustrating!
Thnaks
Christine
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Couldn't make that work. Anyway, I've found a method now that works,
Thanks,
Peedieduchess
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X post: this is for eTrex 30, but I suspect it will work also on yours.
I've spent several hours now reading all the answers here and on other sites and trying out a few things.
So I now think I've conquered the art of getting a geocache to appear on my eTrex!
So, I doubt if anyone else as dim as I am would need this, but here, step by step what I now do.
This is for eTrex 30 and IMac.
It's for loading a single or just a few caches.
Step 1. Connect eTrex to computer with the cable. Give it time to connect.
Step 2. Open 'Garmin Base Camp'and wait for it to load up. Seems to take ages of watching the wheel spinning round.
Step 3: on the left hand side of Garmin Base Camp highlight with the mouse 'My Collection'. It's important to do this first, otherwise it doesn't know where to put the cache.
Step 4: On the geocaching website, find the cache page you want. Click on 'GPX File'. A dialogue box will open. inside that, choose 'Save File' Do NOT choose 'Garmin Base Camp'. Click 'OK'.
Step 5: look now in your computer's downloads ( on my iMac, this is a downward pointing arrow at the top right of the screen). You'll want the one at the top as that's the one you just asked for.
Step 6: click on that download and it will go into 'My Collection' which you highlighted on Garmin Base Camp.
Step 7: NOW: important: identify your new cache in your 'My Collection' list by its GC code and DRAG it up to 'eTrex 30 Unit ID xxxxx).
Step 8: DONE!!! hooray! when you disconnect your eTrex from the iMAC and switch it on, your new cache should be there ready to use.
It doesn't actually take as long as may appear, I'm quite quick at it now. The slow bit is waiting for Garmin Base Camp to connect, that's when I put the kettle on for a cup of tea.
Please don't pity me too much for not understanding computer speak: I'm a pensioner who nearly gave up geocaching due to the problems, and now I can continue.
I'll try to create something similar for pocket queries next. Please share if you want for the benefit of other technophobes.
Kind regards,
Peedieduchess.
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Well folks, first of all thank you to all who took the trouble to respond to my cry for help.
I've spent several hours now reading all the answers here and on other sites and trying out a few things.
So I now think I've conquered the art of getting a geocache to appear on my eTrex!
So, I doubt if anyone else as dim as I am would need this, but here, step by step what I now do.
This is for eTrex 30 and IMac.
It's for loading a single or just a few caches.
Step 1. Connect eTrex to computer with the cable. Give it time to connect.
Step 2. Open 'Garmin Base Camp'and wait for it to load up. Seems to take ages of watching the wheel spinning round.
Step 3: on the left hand side of Garmin Base Camp highlight with the mouse 'My Collection'. It's important to do this first, otherwise it doesn't know where to put the cache.
Step 4: On the geocaching website, find the cache page you want. Click on 'GPX File'. A dialogue box will open. inside that, choose 'Save File' Do NOT choose 'Garmin Base Camp'. Click 'OK'.
Step 5: look now in your computer's downloads ( on my iMac, this is a downward pointing arrow at the top right of the screen). You'll want the one at the top as that's the one you just asked for.
Step 6: click on that download and it will go into 'My Collection' which you highlighted on Garmin Base Camp.
Step 7: NOW: important: identify your new cache in your 'My Collection' list by its GC code and DRAG it up to 'eTrex 30 Unit ID xxxxx).
Step 8: DONE!!! hooray! when you disconnect your eTrex from the iMAC and switch it on, your new cache should be there ready to use.
It doesn't actually take as long as may appear, I'm quite quick at it now. The slow bit is waiting for Garmin Base Camp to connect, that's when I put the kettle on for a cup of tea.
Please don't pity me too much for not understanding computer speak: I'm a pensioner who nearly gave up geocaching due to the problems, and now I can continue.
I'll try to create something similar for pocket queries next. Please share if you want for the benefit of other technophobes.
Kind regards,
Peedieduchess.
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Thanks Kunarion. I'll need to go over all of that. One of the problems is that when I make a list, and click the button for send to GOS, that does indeed work and the caches arrive to my Garmin. BUT there is only the GC code, no name, no hint, and no old logs.
Peedieduchess
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I followed the prompt to go use Explorer and added it to safe sites as suggested...then got the message that it isn't supported there either.
It seems like you're trying to run Garmin Communicator, and that won't work. Many people can still use it, but if "Send To GPS" has stopped working for you, you must try new things.
Install Garmin Express and be sure it's set up and running. Then make a "List". In the List page, click the icon that is 3 dots in a circle, to the right of the List you wish to load, and select "Send To Garmin" from the popup menu. Garmin Express appears automatically, and you can then load the GPSr.
It won't work in "Edge", but it does in "Internet Explorer 11". I just now tried it.
Another option is to use Pocket Queries, which require no particular plugin. Save unzipped "GPX" Pocket Queries in the "Garmin/GPX" folder of a Garmin GPSr.
For just one cache, while viewing a cache page, click the icon with the exact text "GPX file", and save the file in "Garmin/GPX".
I've used the new system successfully. You need Garmin Express installed but you don't need to have Garmin Express up and running it will automatically start when you send the info.
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Sounds good! I should probably treat myself to a new GPSr.
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Yes indeed, I am a premium member, and get totallly lost once people start talking techno speak like .loc and GPX files! I'm an old lady educated before computers were in common use. So what I need is a button to press so the geocaches just magically appear on my eTrex. That is what used to happen, it was easy, just click on 'send to device'. But the so-called upgrade seems to have made it too difficult for me. The new button sends a list to my eTrex without the name, hint, or previous logs. I do have a 'workaround' which is to make a pocket query, import it to iCaching which I paid for, then load it from there to my device. But it's tedious, especially if I only want one cache. A whole pocket query for just one! Or, a step-by-step guide to how to do it.
Anyway, I'm not happy that something that used to be easy is now difficult for this technophobe pensioner and this is spoiling my hobby.
Many thanks for all your answers though! You guys are so knowledgeable.
Peedieduchess
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There are three problems. One is that regular members do not get the GPX file option or the "Send to Garmin" replacement. Second, older style Garmin units can't take a GPX file directly. Third, Groundspeak refuses to remove the "Send to GPS" button.
Many cachers still use the "Send To My GPS" button and its plugin. As mentioned, it specially formats files and loads older GPS units, and it provides special benefits for non-paying users that they get no other way. It's super hard to keep it functioning, so hats off to the those who keep it going. It would then be bad for GS to remove the button. Not every button is for everybody, but it does not follow that it must therefore be removed. "Send To My GPS" is handy for those who can use it, and if you can't, use one of the other options.
Even today, we can't use Edge in any case, since it accepts no plug-in, so we are already running work-arounds. Once IE 11 goes away, it will get more and more tricky to get "plug-ins" to work at all. Modern browsers are strictly limiting plug-ins.
If GS added a direct "Download" in many convenient places, that would be nice for when you want just one cache. But that's when I use the "GPX File" button. It's not all that inconvenient.
I don't know what the Groundspeak plan is for non-paying members as it applies to various buttons. But the OP is a Premium Member, and can use "Send To Garmin" and of course "GPX File". At least it works with the "Etrex 30". There may have been a leetle glitch at some point, but I'm guessing the OP can set up an easy process to load and view caches properly.
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Quite a lot in those answers for me to check out thanks! It's so annoying that something that used to be very easy seems to have been made more difficult. Don't know who to blame, geocaching site; Garmin; Firefox; iMac.....
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Please help!
I used to just click on a little button on the cache page to download it to my Garmin eTrex. No bother. Now it won't work at all. I've tried using the new premium member feature which allows you to download a list at a click of a button: and yes, that does work: but it is very truncated, on my Garmin I only see the Geocache GC code ( not it's name, which can often help to find it), the CO, date, NO HINT, and no previous logs.
Any advice please would be welcome!
I use an eTrex 30 and iMac desktop
thanks
Peedieduchess
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I find that there is no clip or retaining device to hold the card in place, so it can move around quite a lot. There is a little hinged 'door' that covers the card, but it does not seat very well, and indeed the batteries are needed to push it down into position, so I can see it is possible for the card to jump put a little bit.
Thanks for all replies. Very excited......just about to depart from Edinburgh for holiday in Seattle....will be visiting GC HQ!!!
Peedieduchess.
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Try reseating the card. Sometimes if the card is not seated in the slot properly, it prevents the GPS' USB functionality from working properly. This may be the case, as the GPS started working properly again after you removed the card.
Success!
I think the card was not installed correctly. It's quite fiddly to put the wee card into the slot, there is nothing to attach it, so you have to be very careful when putting the batteries back in
I've now discovered when I load geocaches I am given a choice of putting them onto the Garmin, or onto the card; does it matter which I choose?
Thanks for the help,
Peedieduchess
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I've not been out yet with it, but From what I can tell, the map is not what I expected, but I maybe did not order the correct one!
It does look like a map though! After work today I will download some caches and see how they look on the map, thanks for the help
Peedieduchess.
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Thanks, good idea!
I just tried that, and it's back to working ok
I don't use IE, I have Firefox and Safari, same problem with both.
So, is it just a matter of downloading caches with the SD card removed?
Peedieduchess
If it works, yes.
Could just be a bad connection on the card -does the map work with the card inserted?
(I presume it does, otherwise you would have said.)
The card might be making a connection and the map showing, but the connection is upsetting the GPS, so files don't load?
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Thanks, good idea!
I just tried that, and it's back to working ok
I don't use IE, I have Firefox and Safari, same problem with both.
So, is it just a matter of downloading caches with the SD card removed?
Peedieduchess
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I have used my etrex30 without any trouble for several months, just using the base map. Today I downloaded a map from Garmin onto a microSD card and now my etrex is 'not found' and it's all very frustrating. Have spent hours fiddling with drivers, etc, no luck. what am I doing wrong?
Peedieduchess
Does it work if you remove the SD card?
Are you using Internet Explorer?
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I have used my etrex30 without any trouble for several months, just using the base map. Today I downloaded a map from Garmin onto a microSD card and now my etrex is 'not found' and it's all very frustrating. Have spent hours fiddling with drivers, etc, no luck. what am I doing wrong?
Peedieduchess
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Not a beginner....but....please help!
I have been using my etrex30 for several months, no problems, but, today I put in a map purchased from Garmin and now I cannot download any caches from geocaching.com, it cannot find my device. Very frustrating. The new map is on a micro SD card, any ideas what's gone wrong?
Peedieduchess
NOTE added: I have an answer on another from elsewhere thanks!
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I own an earthcache near a very popular year 2000 cache and people try to retroactively log it all of the time. I've gotten emails where people will say "we've been to the other cache....can we log this one too since we didn't know it was here at the time? Here's is the estimated answers for the questions."
I almost never allow a find log for those folks. Mainly because the questions are more involved than an "estimate" and you really do have to visit the cache to get water temperature, elevation, etc. It's in my mind that these cachers didn't take any geologic lesson away from my earthcache. They simply want to log a find because they were there, but can't provide accurate answers.
As far as retroactively logging an earthcache if you have the correct information, as an earthcache owner I believe I still would not allow a find without a visit again. Like others have said before, the whole purpose is to bring you to the location specifically for the earthcache and geology lesson.
So, the consensus seems to be that you must physically visit the site in person?
How do I launch a new trackable using the code from one that has been missing for years; or, the person who supposedly has it in their possession refuses to answer queries?
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Yay! thank you Kunarion, I've been tearing my hair out. I didn't think to look at the 'log' option at all,
many thanks,
Peedieduchess