+badger10 Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 I have the 62S. I loaded a PQ in July of about 400 caches. I have loaded a couple of dozen since then. I did an update from the Garmin site a week ago and then added 5 more caches on Thursday. Friday I added one more and when I went to get it I noticed that all the other caches were gone. I looked in the recent finds section and there were none listed. I had found three caches on Thursday. Any ideas what happened to all the caches? Quote Link to comment
+Cacheoholic Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 They’re probably still there but the GPS is ignoring them. Try removing all GPX files from the GPX folder by cutting & pasting or drag & drop. Start up the GPS with no GPX files. This will flush out the old GPX entries. Put the GPX files back in the GPX folder and restart the GPS. Now the GPS should see the GPX files. I recommend keeping your GPX files on your external memory. That way you can shutdown, pull the memory, boot, replace the memory, boot and you are ready to go. It sure is a life saver if you are out in the field away from your computer. Quote Link to comment
+badger10 Posted December 3, 2011 Author Share Posted December 3, 2011 Okay thanks. I checked the gps'r and they are in the GPX folder and show up when I open the "sent to gps file". I take it you mean move the file to the pc and remove the card and power down/up the gps. The PC does't normally see the sd card in the gps. The only time I see the sd card is when I download a cache from the site to the gps it shows two devices. How do I get the pc to see the sd card to put them back on? Do I need to put it in the sd card slot on the pc? Again thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment
Wintertime Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 The PC does't normally see the sd card in the gps. The only time I see the sd card is when I download a cache from the site to the gps it shows two devices. Hmm, but you aren't seeing the card as a separate "disk drive" on your computer's desktop (or whatever it's called on a Windows machine)? You should see two separate external storage devices--the GPSr and the micro-SD card. Quote Link to comment
+luvvinbird Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 The PC does't normally see the sd card in the gps. The only time I see the sd card is when I download a cache from the site to the gps it shows two devices. Hmm, but you aren't seeing the card as a separate "disk drive" on your computer's desktop (or whatever it's called on a Windows machine)? You should see two separate external storage devices--the GPSr and the micro-SD card. Yes, you should. When I plug my 62s into my Windows PC I see two drives. One has a blue triangle and is marked as Garmin GPSMAP62s (K:) and the other (the SD card) is shown as (L:) with an image of a "hard drive" beside it. Quote Link to comment
+Cacheoholic Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Okay thanks. I checked the gps'r and they are in the GPX folder and show up when I open the "sent to gps file". I take it you mean move the file to the pc and remove the card and power down/up the gps. The PC does't normally see the sd card in the gps. The only time I see the sd card is when I download a cache from the site to the gps it shows two devices. How do I get the pc to see the sd card to put them back on? Do I need to put it in the sd card slot on the pc? Again thanks for your help. If you already keep your GPX files in the microSD then remove the microSD, start GPS, shutdown GPS, put microSD back in GPS and start GPS. If you store the GPX files in the GPS internal memory then you must connect the GPS to a computer to remove and replace the files. The GPS needs a start up with no GPX files in the GPX folder to clean out the old GPX information. Quote Link to comment
+badger10 Posted December 4, 2011 Author Share Posted December 4, 2011 When I plug in the gps it only shows one additional drive that I recall anyway. I will recheck. If that is the case does anybody know why four hundred plus caches would just dissapear? Is there a alloted time the caches stay visible or do they go into some kind of archive mode? Quote Link to comment
+Timpat Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Badger10, see my post on this topic Here. This may be why you are having this problem. It's worth a try. Quote Link to comment
+badger10 Posted December 5, 2011 Author Share Posted December 5, 2011 The PC does't normally see the sd card in the gps. The only time I see the sd card is when I download a cache from the site to the gps it shows two devices. Hmm, but you aren't seeing the card as a separate "disk drive" on your computer's desktop (or whatever it's called on a Windows machine)? You should see two separate external storage devices--the GPSr and the micro-SD card. Yes, you should. When I plug my 62s into my Windows PC I see two drives. One has a blue triangle and is marked as Garmin GPSMAP62s (K:) and the other (the SD card) is shown as (L:) with an image of a "hard drive" beside it. I checked today and you were correct. It did show an additional drive. What confused me is that my PC has five additional drives (usb/card drives) so I didn't notice when it discovered my 62S that it had found another drive. Thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment
+badger10 Posted December 5, 2011 Author Share Posted December 5, 2011 (edited) Badger10, see my post on this topic Here. This may be why you are having this problem. It's worth a try. I think you are correct. After I updated my gps from the Garmin site I added five new caches. I went out on Thursday and found three of them. I went back out on Friday to get the ones I missed and they were gone along with the other 400 plus caches. I even checked the recent finds area and it did not show any finds at all. Not even the three I found the previous day. I did notice that when I went to the geocache menu to pick a cache to find that the five new caches showed up differetly. They had the cache size and difficulty settings on the select cache portion. I just checked my version and it is 1.0 so I am not sure if I have the same problem. Edited December 5, 2011 by badger10 Quote Link to comment
+badger10 Posted December 6, 2011 Author Share Posted December 6, 2011 They’re probably still there but the GPS is ignoring them. Try removing all GPX files from the GPX folder by cutting & pasting or drag & drop. Start up the GPS with no GPX files. This will flush out the old GPX entries. Put the GPX files back in the GPX folder and restart the GPS. Now the GPS should see the GPX files. I recommend keeping your GPX files on your external memory. That way you can shutdown, pull the memory, boot, replace the memory, boot and you are ready to go. It sure is a life saver if you are out in the field away from your computer. Thanks for the help. I did as you suggested and low and behold they are back on the gps. They also have the new updated info...Size/Difficulty. I take it by external memory you mean the sd card. I will do that for al future downloads. Is there anything else I need to do to have the gps show the caches on the sd card or is that automatic. Quote Link to comment
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