Bookin'Pages Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 So as the title above says: My Magellan Explorist GC GPS will not receive any programming downloads of GPS sites from the geocaching.com website anymore. My computer doesn't seem to even recognize it at all. This GPS shows on its screen that it is connected to my computer. But nothing happens when I try to download a cache site GPS info to it. It has been like that for some time. Years, in fact. More than one computer as well. Otherwise I can manually program in a location for a site. And it still takes me to a site okay. Just can't get any recognition from the computer. It used to be able to program the sites just fine originally. But it suddenly stopped some years back after a different computer had to be bought when the first one quit working or went bad, I forget. And I can't find any way to update the GPS. Although I saw on some answer and question site, I forget what it was called, that someone said the long awaited update had finally arrived for that Explorist GC. But I can't find it anywhere. And I can't even get on the Magellan website anymore either. SO DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT GIVES WITH THIS ? Or has Garmin managed to take over the whole GPS business now and left poor Magellan in the dust and bushes ? Quote Link to comment
+Atlas Cached Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 Yes, Garmin has dominated the market. But that doesn't mean you can't still use your Magellan. What firmware version is your eXplorist GC running now? Can you see the files and folders on the device when it is connected to your computer? Quote Link to comment
+PeoriaBill Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 (edited) Pulled out my old Magellan Explorist GC and had no problem using it with GSAK. It holds 10,000 caches. In GSAK you'll have to select the correct model. Did not try EasyGPS, but I believe it will also load caches to your GPS. Regards, PeoriaBill Edited December 19, 2022 by PeoriaBill Quote Link to comment
+DuckanaJones Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 I had to download each cache using the “download fox file” button and save to my downloads file on PC. Then plug in the gps, and in file explorer, open up the Magellan and look for the file “geocaches” and drag and drop the gpx files there. Worked OK, but would sometimes miss some files completely. It’s been very frustrating. My old explorist is also running very slow, so am now in the market for another that works for paperless caching. Just not enough clear info, and to many varied opinions to make a clear choice yet. Sigh. Quote Link to comment
+Mineral2 Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 On 7/17/2021 at 4:06 PM, DuckanaJones said: I had to download each cache using the “download fox file” button and save to my downloads file on PC. Then plug in the gps, and in file explorer, open up the Magellan and look for the file “geocaches” and drag and drop the gpx files there. Worked OK, but would sometimes miss some files completely. It’s been very frustrating. My old explorist is also running very slow, so am now in the market for another that works for paperless caching. Just not enough clear info, and to many varied opinions to make a clear choice yet. Sigh. Garmin is the only player in the market now, and all of Garmin's handheld offerings since ~2008 include paperless geocaching support. Quote Link to comment
+dapsdd&clan Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 On 7/17/2021 at 4:06 PM, DuckanaJones said: I had to download each cache using the “download fox file” button and save to my downloads file on PC. Then plug in the gps, and in file explorer, open up the Magellan and look for the file “geocaches” and drag and drop the gpx files there. Worked OK, but would sometimes miss some files completely. It’s been very frustrating. My old explorist is also running very slow, so am now in the market for another that works for paperless caching. Just not enough clear info, and to many varied opinions to make a clear choice yet. Sigh. This is what we do as well to eek out a few more years of use with our two eXplorist GCs. One thing we recently encountered was that, after installing new anti-virus software on one of our computers, we needed to "tell" the software that the GPS was a known/trusted device before the computer would allow us to browse to the Geocaching folder (or even open the directory) on our GPS. 1 Quote Link to comment
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