phearis Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 This is down right ridiculous! There is no option to delete found caches the Oregon 600. I read the instructions, looked online and even did a hard factory reset... and they were STILL there. What person thought "not having a delete function" was a good idea? Could someone please just tell me how to delete found caches? Don't point me to another topic. Don't tell me to "Just delete the files" because there's a ton of files, which ones? I am beyond frustrated here, I just want some help. Please! Quote Link to comment
+kunarion Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 (edited) This is down right ridiculous! There is no option to delete found caches the Oregon 600. I read the instructions, looked online and even did a hard factory reset... and they were STILL there. What person thought "not having a delete function" was a good idea? Could someone please just tell me how to delete found caches? Don't point me to another topic. Don't tell me to "Just delete the files" because there's a ton of files, which ones? I am beyond frustrated here, I just want some help. Please! Delete all the files in [OR Drive:]/Garmin/GPX The caches are probably all "LOC" files for a Basic Member. So if you leave the "GPX" files (or others that aren't "LOC"), files that you made won't go away. I back up that whole folder before clearing it out, since there's always a hard-won waypoint or two that I forgot I snapped. But I don't delete my found caches. They're handy guideposts for other nearby unfound ones, and I need them anyway to check distances when placing a cache in some parks. You can sort them out when looking for unfound caches, and they have their own icon on the map. Plus the 600 holds tons of caches. Nevermind, now you know now to delete them. Wait a second, are you seriously saying the number of your Found caches has become unmanageable? Alrighty then. Plug the GPSr into the USB port, and the drive pops up in the file manager, maybe like "Garmin Oregon 600 G:", which is the "[OR Drive]". Browse to the folder [OR Drive:]/Garmin/GPX, and delete individual files or everything in that GPX folder. Place new files and you're good. Garmin kind of overlooks "Geocaching" in favor of their own "Opencaching" stuff. Groundspeak doesn't get that specific with each model of GPSr. And so, between the two of them, it sometimes does seem tough to find the info . I hope this helps. Edited December 28, 2014 by kunarion Quote Link to comment
+kunarion Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 The easiest way IMO is to use Garmin's free Basecamp program ... you can see all the caches on your GPS, found or not, and delete those you don't want. http://www.garmin.com/en-GB/shop/downloads/basecamp Sure, but with only two cache files to delete, it may be good to try it manually, just to get an idea of what the software would do. In most cases, it's faster to just delete/add without starting another program. Quote Link to comment
+kunarion Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Well that depends on how much editing you want to do and whether you know which two gpx files you need to delete Good point! The manual method requires deletion by file name, which in this case is likely the cache number with ".LOC". Quote Link to comment
+Mineral2 Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Quite frankly, there's no need to delete found caches since the Oregon 650 has no cache limit. Found caches won't show up on your list or your nearest caches dashboard, though the icon will still remain on the map. The best thing you can do (and the reason to buy a premium membership) is use pocket queries. Set your queries to filter out caches you've found and each time you load them, your found caches are removed. Pocket Queries let you load up to 1000 caches per query in one file (at 10 queries a day, you can load up to 10,000 / day, more than you should ever need at any one time). This way you can always keep your cache listings up to date with the latest logs and description updates. Oh, and the other reason to purchase a premium membership: the ability to put ALL of the cache description (description, hints, recent logs, etc.) on your GPS. Quote Link to comment
+kunarion Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Quite frankly, there's no need to delete found caches since the Oregon 650 has no cache limit. Found caches won't show up on your list or your nearest caches dashboard, though the icon will still remain on the map. The best thing you can do (and the reason to buy a premium membership) is use pocket queries. Set your queries to filter out caches you've found and each time you load them, your found caches are removed. The 600 has filters to shut off the view of various cache groups, including caches that have been found. That's probably as close as the OP will get to "deleting caches" in the field. I guess the reason a Garmin GPS doesn't "delete" caches is because a GPX file may have more than one cache, which would be more complex than just removing one file (but that's just a guess). Quote Link to comment
+Mineral2 Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 I guess the reason a Garmin GPS doesn't "delete" caches is because a GPX file may have more than one cache, which would be more complex than just removing one file (but that's just a guess). If that were true, then you shouldn't be able to delete regular waypoints, which can exist bundled in a single .gpx file. Quote Link to comment
+ecanderson Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 If that were true, then you shouldn't be able to delete regular waypoints, which can exist bundled in a single .gpx file. To be clear, caches are NOT handled in the same manner as regular waypoints. When waypoints are found in a gpx with the xml tag <type>Geocache ...>, they are loaded into their own special 'slots' in memory and managed quite differently, which is also why you can't edit them using Waypoint Manager. So when it comes to other generic <wpt> entries vs. the subset that are <type> geocaches, anything that applies to one may very well not apply to the other. Frankly, I still don't understand the obsession with deleting caches from a device in the field. To the OP: This same question has come in this forum and answered up about .. lemme see .. 2.65 million times? since the first of the Garmin Colorado series (was it?) came out in 2008 that processes *.gpx files in this manner, though we don't see it as often as we used to... A small sampling of what shows up on a search -- heaven knows there many dozen more threads just like these dating back to 2008 -- if many of them haven't been archived yet. So even if not adept at search, you are in very good company in expecting this feature to have been available. http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=290560 http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=317528 http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=230400 http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=238941 http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=302936 http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=296506 http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=295236 http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=294762 Quote Link to comment
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