New 450T

[+Dorothy_&_Tin_Man]

I just picked up an Oregon 450t to replace my iPhone for caching had a few questions. There is not much information on the Geocache side of this unit.

 

How do you delete the log files (or "Show Found") from the unit. I like to start with a clean slate so it is easier to see what we found that day and log them online. Or is there a way to auto upload your finds?

 

Please remember that i am coming from an iPhone where everything could be done right in the field so im not sure what this Garmin is capable of. Its too bad that the GPS on the iPhone is so slow and crappy in tree cover.

[+jeepdelfuego]

I just picked up an Oregon 450t to replace my iPhone for caching had a few questions. There is not much information on the Geocache side of this unit.

 

How do you delete the log files (or "Show Found") from the unit. I like to start with a clean slate so it is easier to see what we found that day and log them online. Or is there a way to auto upload your finds?

 

Please remember that i am coming from an iPhone where everything could be done right in the field so im not sure what this Garmin is capable of. Its too bad that the GPS on the iPhone is so slow and crappy in tree cover.

 

All of your geocaching, and Garmin Oregon questions can be answered here: Garmin Oregon Wiki

 

To answer you questions specifically, I'll paste some of the information from the link above:

 

How do I mark a Geocache as "found" or "did not find"?

 

After you have a selected a geocache to navigate to go back to Main Menu>Geocaches. You can mark the cache as "found" or "did not find by selecting Log Attempt. In either case the symbol of the cache will change to an open treasure chest. If you mark a cache as "found" it will also be moved from the Unfound List to the Found List and your total cache find count will increment by one.

 

Now that I've found some caches how do I use fieldnotes to log my caches?

 

Connect your Oregon to your computer and navigate to this link. The instructions on this page will tell you how to upload your fieldnote file in order to streamline the process of logging your found caches. Fieldnotes automate the process of logging caches you have found by bringing you directly to the log page for each found cache. The log date and log type are pre-filled based on the note you made in the field on your Oregon.

 

Fieldnotes are saved on the Oregon in a file called [OR drive]:\Garmin\geocaching_visits.txt . This file contains all of your fieldnotes; one line per cache and each line contains the GCID of the cache, date and timestamp of your attempt, the type of fieldnote (e.g. found, did not find, needs maintenance, or unattempted) and an optional text comment. As part of the process of logging your cache you will upload this file to Groundspeak to automate the process of logging your caches. This file will grow as you log caches and it is recommended that you purge this file once you have uploaded the notes to Groundspeak. There is no known file size limit, but several users have reported issues going past 1000 fieldnotes.

 

Currently there are several issues with the way Groundspeak handles fieldnotes. Most of these issues revolve around problems with how logs are dated based on timestamps in the fieldnotes. The issues are documented in this thread.

[+dfx]

How do you delete the log files (or "Show Found") from the unit. I like to start with a clean slate so it is easier to see what we found that day and log them online. Or is there a way to auto upload your finds?

yes and yes.

 

first connect the unit to your PC and take a look at the freshly appeared storage drive, especially in the \garmin\ directory.

 

for logging your finds, go here and upload the geocache_visits.txt file. once you're done with that, delete it off the device so you're off to a fresh start for the next time.

 

as for the caches, both found and unfound caches are loaded from all the GPX files in the \GPX\ subdirectory. if you want to exclude/delete found caches, you either need to delete/update the GPX files you got from your pocket queries (where the PQ would then exclude found caches), or otherwise delete the individual GPX files for the found caches if you were loading them one by one ("send to GPS").

[+Dorothy_&_Tin_Man]

How do you delete the log files (or "Show Found") from the unit. I like to start with a clean slate so it is easier to see what we found that day and log them online. Or is there a way to auto upload your finds?

yes and yes.

 

first connect the unit to your PC and take a look at the freshly appeared storage drive, especially in the \garmin\ directory.

 

for logging your finds, go here and upload the geocache_visits.txt file. once you're done with that, delete it off the device so you're off to a fresh start for the next time.

 

as for the caches, both found and unfound caches are loaded from all the GPX files in the \GPX\ subdirectory. if you want to exclude/delete found caches, you either need to delete/update the GPX files you got from your pocket queries (where the PQ would then exclude found caches), or otherwise delete the individual GPX files for the found caches if you were loading them one by one ("send to GPS").

 

Awsome. That will make life much easier.