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GPS City Q&A » Outdoor GPS » How to download geocaches to an Apple Computer?

Outdoor GPS (5 replies)

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How to download geocaches to an Apple Computer?

› Garmin Oregon 450

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Lisa
Duncan

Original question asked on Jul 16, 2012, 9:11pm

I have been downloading geocaches from my Toshiba laptop, operating system is Windows Vista. I've got a new laptop, an Apple MacBook Pro but it isn't allowing me to download the geocaches. I can still download from my Toshiba so I know it's not a GPS problem. How do I get the GPS to allow the downloads from my Apple computer?

Jordan
GPS City

Reply #1 on Jul 17, 2012, 7:27am

There are no settings to change from a Mac to a PC. How are you loading the caches? All you need to do on the mac is drag your GPX file from the Mac to the GPX folder in the Garmin using Finder.

You can also use the Garmin communicator plugin for your browser and send them one at a time from the Mac to the Oregon using the geocaching website.

How are you loading the caches on the PC vs the Mac?

Lisa
Duncan

Reply #2 on Jul 17, 2012, 6:43pm

Thanks Jordan. I was trying to load them one at a time (same way as on my PC), I've just done the same thing and it worked. I'm wondering now if I had turned off the device in Finder (I just tried that and if you do that, it doesn't work).

I thought I would try the way you explained about dragging the GPX file but I don't have the option of dragging the GPX file, the GPX file is greyed out. Any ideas why? Thanks for the help.

Jordan
GPS City

Reply #3 on Jul 18, 2012, 7:30am

You need to be a premium member of geocaching.com to download GPX files. It is only around $30 per year. I recommend becoming a premium member so you can do pocket queries and load 1000 caches at a time instead of one by one.

Lisa
Duncan

Reply #4 on Jul 19, 2012, 6:22pm

Still having problems. I thought it worked because the computer said the geocache was written to the device. But when I unplugged my GPS and go into Geocaching it is not there. Any ideas?

Thanks for the tip on becoming a premium member, I've been thinking about it but just haven't done it yet.

Jordan
GPS City

Reply #5 on Jul 23, 2012, 8:07am

I suggest trying a update to your unit. Also make sure you are choosing the Garmin option to send the data to your GPS. I suggest doing a pocket query and copy the GPX file to the internal memory.

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