[chrissearle]

Been successfully using the montana 600 for geocaching since I got it last year.

But been a while since I've used it - don't do much winter caching.

Going to head out tomorrow - so today I updated from 3.70 to 3.90 firmware and then transferred the caches I'm going for.

The unit is in Geocaching profile.

If I hit the geocaching button - then it says

No geocaches found.

Visit garmin.com/geocache to learn more and download geocaches.

If I choose Waypoint Manager - I can see all the GC* waypoints - complete with closed treasure chest icon.

Tried them on the unit, tried them on the SD card.

Anyone seen anything similar?

Am going to ask Garmin too - but they often take a long time to respond

[Cacheoholic]

Sounds like you loaded your geocaches as waypoints with a 3rd party software. Tell us in detail how you loaded the geocaches on your GPS. All you need to do is copy an unzipped Pocket Query and paste it in the GPX folder in the GPS.

[chrissearle]

Cacheoholic, on 14 April 2012 - 09:51 AM, said:

Sounds like you loaded your geocaches as waypoints with a 3rd party software. Tell us in detail how you loaded the geocaches on your GPS. All you need to do is copy an unzipped Pocket Query and paste it in the GPX folder in the GPS.

Yes - simply placing the GPX file on the device worked.

I usually use Garmin's own Basecamp to transfer waypoints and to read off tracks/routes. But I've never been really happy with it as an app - so I might just drop it

Does it matter what the file is called (or if there is more than one gpx file?

Still - managed 8 of the 9 we looked for today - so it can't be all bad

[Cacheoholic]

I doesn’t matter what you name the Pocket Query (gpx file). I just check the “Include Pocket Query name in download file name” box at the bottom of the PQ form.

You can have up to 200 GPX files loaded on the GPS.

[Walts Hunting]

Cacheoholic, on 14 April 2012 - 12:33 PM, said:

I doesn’t matter what you name the Pocket Query (gpx file). I just check the “Include Pocket Query name in download file name” box at the bottom of the PQ form.

You can have up to 200 GPX files loaded on the GPS.

Just to clarify a little. GPX files can contain more than one geocache. While the 200 GPX files is correct they can contain 12,000 caches.

[chrissearle]

OK - that's useful info. Knew that you can have many points in a GPX but wasn't sure if you were restricted on the number of files.

Still have to wonder why basecamp transfer suddenly started causing this issue (its been working fine since I got the montana and also was fine with the old 76CSx I used to have) - but - that's just curiosity - dumping the pocketq gpx files on is far simpler