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I Have a Magellan Explorist GC

 

Until Recently i have used it with Windows with no problem. We now have a Mac. when i plug the gps in it only lets me transfer one geocache at a time even though it tells me that the cache has been loaded when i check my gps it only has the first cache i moved!??

 

a friend told me to create a pocket query and move this to my gps. i've created a pocket query but have no idea to move it to my gps with a mac.

 

can anyone help please?

 

Thank You

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I Have a Magellan Explorist GC

 

Until Recently i have used it with Windows with no problem. We now have a Mac. when i plug the gps in it only lets me transfer one geocache at a time even though it tells me that the cache has been loaded when i check my gps it only has the first cache i moved!??

 

a friend told me to create a pocket query and move this to my gps. i've created a pocket query but have no idea to move it to my gps with a mac.

 

can anyone help please?

 

Thank You

 

After you tell the GPS to connect to the computer, it should appear as a new drive on the Mac screen called 'Compass'...

 

take the .zip file for the pocket query, and extract it. (pretty sure just click on it, and it will open as a plain folder.) it should show 2 files.. #########.gpx and #########-wpt.gpx (######### being the unique number in the filename.) Simply drag-copy the plain .gpx file to the Geocaches folder and the -wpt.gpx file to the Waypoints folder of the 'Compass' (the GC's flash drive.).. eject the 'Compass' drive (drag it to the trash), wait til it finishes, and disconnect the GC.. It will restart, and check the files added. You can add up to 5000 caches (5 pocket queries, even in separate files) safely, (even though Magellan says it can handle 10,000, it takes forever for the device to finish loading from a cold start. (power-on))

 

When You're wanting to load a new set of queries, simply access the 'Compass' drive, go into the Geocaches folder, and delete the .gpx files (drag to trash, I think they are not saved for recovery.) Likewise, do the same to the GPX files in the Waypoints folder.

 

If you want to do a field-entry of the caches You've found/DNF'ed/etc., there is a file called "newlogs.txt" in the Geocaches folder. This contains the GC-Code, Found/Not Found/reports from your adventure. from the main page of GC.Com, click on [Your Profile] near the top, and click on "Field Notes". scroll down to the bottom of the page, and select Upload my Field Notes, click on 'browse', and go to the 'newlogs.txt' file on the GC (Compass/geocaches). click Upload, and you'll see 'Return to New Logs' appear. Then, you simply click on 'Compose Log' for each cache, and when you finish and post it, you'll see 'return to new logs' appear above the cache name. When done, simply delete the old 'newlogs.txt' file to free-up space.

 

The device should show-up like any other FAT-16 flash drive to the mac. Hope this helps? Stephen (gelfling6)

 

I usually will do a quick & dirty edit to the newlogs.txt file, prepping the logs before uploading. f you take this route, your text is in the quoted area on the right, cannot contain any quote marks itself, emoticons are usually within brackets [], and entire log entry must be on one single line per cache. Then, simply upload the finished text file.

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