Magellan 500LE Not Displaying Geocache POIs

[+celestialmom]

Hi, I read the pinned thread of FAQs and did a search, but didn't find any relevant threads, so hopefully I'm not duplicating anything recent. However, I'm hoping someone here is already familiar with this problem because I'm not entirely sure how to explain it coherently!

 

So anyway, I've downloaded several different groups of waypoints to my GPSr--local (without found caches), some nearby towns, and a file with local caches that I have found, to use while caching with my newbie relatives. I know how to switch between waypoint/geocache files and have done so in the past, but for some reason, this week while out with my sister, things seemed to go haywire.

 

Every time I tried to view a local cache in a particular file, (by clicking on the view button in the cache description page), the map on the GPSr would come up with only my manually entered POIs. These are just local places I've marked myself. For some reason I couldn't get the icons and caches themselves to view on the map. I tried this several times with no success, restarted the unit, even deleted all my other geocache POI files in case I was using too much memory or something.

 

Have I lost my mind? Anyone have any input on what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks

Celestialmom

[+FamilyDNA]

Did you try pressing: menu -> preferences -> active setup

 

Is your file active?

[+celestialmom]

Uh...well, that was simple! I do feel silly--I have never switched between files this way, but then again, I just started paperless caching a couple weeks ago and haven't been anywhere where the POIs conflict with the geocache POIs. Thanks so much...

Celestialmom