Right-click on device as it appears as a drive Once the basemap has been saved, the device can be formatted: Locate your device under Devices with removable storage or Devices and Drives Go to the Start menu in the left hand corner
THIS MUST ONLY BE PERFORMED ON A WINDOWS COMPUTER, NOT ON A MAC.īefore formatting the device, it will be necessary to remove any SD cards and save the basemap from the device to the computer: ‘NOTE THIS IS FOR OUTDOOR AND FITNESS DEVICES ONLY’ Therefore does anyone know how I can tell the Etrex to work off a different GPX file when I move into a different area without having to plug it into a laptop and manually move the GPX files around?įirst, please copy and paste the GPX folder from the device onto your computer, so you don't lose it permanently. I was led to understand from earlier forum posting (2014?) that it should automatically shift to using the local file that is stored on the SD card. But when I came into London this morning and well outside the Oxford based coverage, the Garmin was still looking back to the Oxford ones. I have also put a London centric GPX file onto the SD card. I have located the GPX folder in the Garmin and have successfully transferred my local UK (Oxford) 1000 cache GPX file. I have created a folder on the SD card that is called GPX where I have dumped 10 GPX pocket Queries of 1000 caches each. Going on a road trip through Norway and Sweden and wish to load as many caches onto the Garmin so that I do not have to take along my laptop as well. Just purchased a Etrex 20X and have successfully installed a 32gig micro SD card.