+medic161 Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Been away from caching for several yrs. Here is my problem. I used to use gsak to download my caches onto my Garmin 60Cx. I no longer have a PC we now have a chromebook. Seems chromebook doesnt support gsak. what can i use. Quote Link to comment
+Viajero Perdido Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Given the info above, I don't think there's a solution. (If I'm wrong, others will correct me shortly.) Do you own a smartphone? If so, what kind? Quote Link to comment
+medic161 Posted December 10, 2019 Author Share Posted December 10, 2019 So does this mean i cant download onto my gps? Im old tech and dont want to use my phone which by the way is a Samsung galaxys7 active. Quote Link to comment
+31BMSG Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 On 12/7/2019 at 5:42 PM, medic161 said: Been away from caching for several yrs. Here is my problem. I used to use gsak to download my caches onto my Garmin 60Cx. I no longer have a PC we now have a chromebook. Seems chromebook doesnt support gsak. what can i use. I've got a caching friend that runs GSAK on a Chromebook using an app called Crossover, I believe he said it was free. Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 On 12/7/2019 at 6:42 PM, medic161 said: Been away from caching for several yrs. Here is my problem. I used to use gsak to download my caches onto my Garmin 60Cx. 27 minutes ago, medic161 said: So does this mean i cant download onto my gps? Im old tech and dont want to use my phone which by the way is a Samsung galaxys7 active. Maybe it seems odd, since you used to load caches easily with your long-discontinued GPSr, but did you ever think of loading manually ? I've loaded caches manually since starting, and still use a 60csx. Just need a small notepad for hints, DT and stuff... It now takes me about a minute to load coordinates and cache name. I use my phone for calls. Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 48 minutes ago, cerberus1 said: Maybe it seems odd, since you used to load caches easily with your long-discontinued GPSr, but did you ever think of loading manually ? I've loaded caches manually since starting, and still use a 60csx. Just need a small notepad for hints, DT and stuff... It now takes me about a minute to load coordinates and cache name. I am really good at that! Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 IIRC, Easygps might be an option too... It seems to still work with 60 series. I'd read the tutorials and see if you're comfortable with that workaround. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 On 12/10/2019 at 6:39 PM, cerberus1 said: IIRC, Easygps might be an option too... It seems to still work with 60 series. I'd read the tutorials and see if you're comfortable with that workaround. I'm not surprised. My first gps was a Garmin 76Cx, which is essentially the same as the 60 series but different packaging. I actually downloaded a copy of EasyGPS before I got the GPS receiver and even upgraded to ExpertGPS. Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 I think you can just download the pocket query .zip to your Chromebook, use its utility to unzip, you'll have a waypoints.gpx file and a geocaches.gpx file. Direct load those to the gps from the Chromebook. Some of the Garmin units will handle the zip file directly, but I'd guess not that one. Though you could try it. No harm. Of course, this doesn't offer any of the filtering options of GSAK. I generally load from GSAK, using its filtering to dump caches that don't look healthy or interesting. Quote Link to comment
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