Nmw Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 I have plugged in the etrex30, gone to this site to view some geocaches in my area of interest, selected one, ticked the accept smallprint button, send to gps, then do 'select another one, tick the accept smallprint button again, send to gps' for several more, and diconnect gps, switch on again, go to the geocache page on the etrex and it says none found and to sign up again with a garmin geocache group group. I have read online that most popular site is here and that the garmin site has few geocaches. So can I do it the way I expected above or not. No warning messages...no advisories...no geocaches from www.geocaching.com site??? Do you require my money first? Quote Link to comment
+BCandMsKitty Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 No, you don't have to pay for a membership to get the caches, but if you do much caching, you will eventually be glad to! I'm a premium member and forget exactly how to do it the way you are trying, but I'll try to answer. Maybe someone with better knowledge will come along soon. The best I can do is point you to this page for instructions for basic members. For Windows, you should have been prompted to download and install Garmin Communicator for your GPSr to communicate with the computer and accept the caches downloaded to it. This might help, but at the least it will bump the thread for notice from others more knowledgeable than me. Quote Link to comment
+Gill & Tony Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Sorry I missed this the first time. I have a E-Trex 30 and it works well with this site. The problem you describe might be fixed by plugging the etrex into the computer, opening it as a device and finding the folder containing .gpx files. This may be a top level GPX folder or Garmin\GPX - I have two devices and forget which one is which. Go to that folder and delete everything in it. Don't delete the folder itself. There will probably be one or two folders and some .gpx files. Then safely remove the device. Start it up wait until it is fully awake then shut it down. Plug it back into the computer, add the new files then safely remove it. The caches should now appear. Quote Link to comment
+Captain Goober Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I bought premium during my 2nd day of caching, i know i am going to be doing this for a while so I'll get my money's worth. There is a lot of free caches so you do not have to. Quote Link to comment
+TBU1Bikesu Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 We are newbies as well, no premium members. Got an Etrex 30. Even we are putting in our postcode, the maps shows only couple of geocaches like 30 ks away from us. We know exactly there are more. What might be wrong? Thanks for any hint. Quote Link to comment
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