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  Re: Vista HCx no longer saves .gpx of tracks
| Craig Wallace | 07-31-2011 |
   Re: Vista HCx no longer saves .gpx of tracks
| Theodore Heise | 08-01-2011 |
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| John Henderson | 08-02-2011 |
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| Theodore Heise | 08-03-2011 |
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| John Henderson | 08-04-2011 |
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I've had an etrex Vista HCx for a couple of years now, and have
periodically copied to my laptop all the .gpx files saved to the
unit when tracking is turned on. These would be one file per day,
named YYYYMMDD.gpx (e.g., 20110707.gpx). For the last few months,
I only have one file on the unit. Don't think I've changed any
settings, but can anyone offer suggestions?
The change in behavior started about the time I began uploading
tracks to MyGarmin, but today I tried to copy over the .gpx file
from my bicycle ride this morning *before* uploading the new
activity to the Garmin site--nothing was there.
Help!?
--
On 31/07/2011 01:46, Theodore Heise wrote:
Note this will save the tracks onto the MicroSD card, not the unit
--
Craig Wallace
http://craig.neogeo.org.uk
http://www.neogeo.org.uk
Go to menu -> Tracks -> Setup -> Data Card Setup, and make sure the
option is ticked for "Log track to data card".
Note this will save the tracks onto the MicroSD card, not the unit
itself. To copy them to your PC, plug in the eTrex then go to menu ->
Setup -> Interface, and choose "USB Mass storage".
Setup -> Interface, and choose "USB Mass storage".
--
Craig Wallace
http://craig.neogeo.org.uk
http://www.neogeo.org.uk
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:30:12 +0100,
Thanks, but this was not the problem--that option has always been
selected, but I was still not getting .gpx files on the card. I
The card is only about 60% full, but looking around on the web I
found a suggestion that there might also be a limit on the number
of files. I deleted all the .gpx files (roughly three hundred),
and this morning the unit saved a .gpx file from my ride.
Last night I only had a couple unused saved tracks (on the Tracks
page) so I also deleted another six of the saved tracks, but I
doubt this would have made a difference--I think this is internal
memory, not the microSD card.
--
> On 31/07/2011 01:46, Theodore Heise wrote:
>> ...today I tried to copy over the .gpx file from my bicycle
>> ride this morning *before* uploading the new activity to the
>> Garmin site--nothing was there.
>> ride this morning *before* uploading the new activity to the
>> Garmin site--nothing was there.
> Go to menu -> Tracks -> Setup -> Data Card Setup, and make sure
> the option is ticked for "Log track to data card".
> Note this will save the tracks onto the MicroSD card, not the
> unit itself. To copy them to your PC, plug in the eTrex then go
> to menu -> Setup -> Interface, and choose "USB Mass storage".
> the option is ticked for "Log track to data card".
> Note this will save the tracks onto the MicroSD card, not the
> unit itself. To copy them to your PC, plug in the eTrex then go
> to menu -> Setup -> Interface, and choose "USB Mass storage".
Thanks, but this was not the problem--that option has always been
selected, but I was still not getting .gpx files on the card. I
also verified that Setup -> Map -> Tracks was set to AUTO (i.e.,
not OFF) for both Saved Tracks and Track Log. Still no joy.
The card is only about 60% full, but looking around on the web I
found a suggestion that there might also be a limit on the number
of files. I deleted all the .gpx files (roughly three hundred),
and this morning the unit saved a .gpx file from my ride.
Last night I only had a couple unused saved tracks (on the Tracks
page) so I also deleted another six of the saved tracks, but I
doubt this would have made a difference--I think this is internal
memory, not the microSD card.
--
Theodore Heise wrote on Jul 31, 2011:
Have you got a reference for this? I've always assumed that I can leave the
gps collecting daily tracklogs almost indefinitely without any problem. If
there is a limit to the number of files, I'd like to know what it is.
--
Mike Lane
UK North Yorkshire
mike_lane at mac dot com
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:30:12 +0100,
>> On 31/07/2011 01:46, Theodore Heise wrote:
>
>>> ...today I tried to copy over the .gpx file from my bicycle
>>> ride this morning *before* uploading the new activity to the
>>> Garmin site--nothing was there.
>>> ride this morning *before* uploading the new activity to the
>>> Garmin site--nothing was there.
>
>> Go to menu -> Tracks -> Setup -> Data Card Setup, and make sure
>> the option is ticked for "Log track to data card".
>>
>> Note this will save the tracks onto the MicroSD card, not the
>> unit itself. To copy them to your PC, plug in the eTrex then go
>> to menu -> Setup -> Interface, and choose "USB Mass storage".
>> the option is ticked for "Log track to data card".
>>
>> Note this will save the tracks onto the MicroSD card, not the
>> unit itself. To copy them to your PC, plug in the eTrex then go
>> to menu -> Setup -> Interface, and choose "USB Mass storage".
>
> Thanks, but this was not the problem--that option has always been
> selected, but I was still not getting .gpx files on the card. I
> also verified that Setup -> Map -> Tracks was set to AUTO (i.e.,
> not OFF) for both Saved Tracks and Track Log. Still no joy.
>
> The card is only about 60% full, but looking around on the web I
> found a suggestion that there might also be a limit on the number
> of files.
> Thanks, but this was not the problem--that option has always been
> selected, but I was still not getting .gpx files on the card. I
> also verified that Setup -> Map -> Tracks was set to AUTO (i.e.,
> not OFF) for both Saved Tracks and Track Log. Still no joy.
>
> The card is only about 60% full, but looking around on the web I
> found a suggestion that there might also be a limit on the number
> of files.
Have you got a reference for this? I've always assumed that I can leave the
gps collecting daily tracklogs almost indefinitely without any problem. If
there is a limit to the number of files, I'd like to know what it is.
--
Mike Lane
UK North Yorkshire
mike_lane at mac dot com
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 01:13:36 +0100,
Well, either I'm unable to find now what I thought I saw last
night, or I just inferred it from the information at the
following:
http://www.gpsfaqs.org/faqs/garmin/xseries/gvistahcx/tracks.html
Either way, it doesn't seem like several hundred files should be a
problem--but deleting them caused it to start working correctly
again.
--
> Theodore Heise wrote on Jul 31, 2011:
>> Thanks, but this was not the problem--that option has always
>> been selected, but I was still not getting .gpx files on the
>> card. I also verified that Setup -> Map -> Tracks was set to
>> AUTO (i.e., not OFF) for both Saved Tracks and Track Log.
>> Still no joy.
>>
>> The card is only about 60% full, but looking around on the web
>> I found a suggestion that there might also be a limit on the
>> number of files.
>> been selected, but I was still not getting .gpx files on the
>> card. I also verified that Setup -> Map -> Tracks was set to
>> AUTO (i.e., not OFF) for both Saved Tracks and Track Log.
>> Still no joy.
>>
>> The card is only about 60% full, but looking around on the web
>> I found a suggestion that there might also be a limit on the
>> number of files.
> Have you got a reference for this? I've always assumed that I
> can leave the gps collecting daily tracklogs almost indefinitely
> without any problem. If there is a limit to the number of files,
> I'd like to know what it is.
> can leave the gps collecting daily tracklogs almost indefinitely
> without any problem. If there is a limit to the number of files,
> I'd like to know what it is.
Well, either I'm unable to find now what I thought I saw last
night, or I just inferred it from the information at the
following:
http://www.gpsfaqs.org/faqs/garmin/xseries/gvistahcx/tracks.html
Either way, it doesn't seem like several hundred files should be a
problem--but deleting them caused it to start working correctly
again.
--
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> periodically copied to my laptop all the .gpx files saved to the
> unit when tracking is turned on. These would be one file per day,
> named YYYYMMDD.gpx (e.g., 20110707.gpx). For the last few months,
> I only have one file on the unit. Don't think I've changed any
> settings, but can anyone offer suggestions?
> The change in behavior started about the time I began uploading
> tracks to MyGarmin, but today I tried to copy over the .gpx file
> from my bicycle ride this morning *before* uploading the new
> activity to the Garmin site--nothing was there.
> Help!?