How to fix or adjust mileage and time

In Basecamp, I combine two tracks I made yesterday. The first track was only about .3 miles. The next was 6.7 miles. When I combine the tracks, and select the new track, while the track itself looks complete, the summary information indicate the first tracks info, .3 miles and 3 minutes.

Is there a way to get the track to recalculate the correct length and time? Or am I missing a step here?
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 7 years ago
    Are the dates and times in the correct order?
  • Point 90 is the last point of the first track. To me, it appears to be in line with the time sequence. If you look at the summary on the bottom, it says .2 miles (I typed .3 as my watch says .3 for the track). Anyway, the only thing standing out is that point 90 is a 225ft length and 55 second, where the rest appear shorter. Im happy to upload the tracks as well.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 7 years ago
    Yes attach copies of your files and I will try to find what is going wrong.
  • Three fils contained within. The two originals, and the combined. These were records from the Garmin 5XP while tracking, during a route.

    I started the route, but we went the opposite direction from the route I created. So I stopped the route, then chose to reverse the route, and finished the hike. Trying to combine both gave me the distance and time of the first track only, about .2-.3 miles.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 7 years ago
    Something is corrupted in that ZIP file and I cannot expand it. It appears that the ZIP file contains GPX files. Can you send just the original files NOT the one u made? Thanks
  • I was able ot download and open just fine, however, here are the original FIT files on the device.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 7 years ago

    Hello TjStroker,
    There are 2 ways to combine several tracks into 1 track. Option #1 is using the BaseCamp "Join Selected Tracks" which you have done and did not like the resulting stats. Option #2 you need to know which track is first, second, etc. Then open track #2 and select and copy all the points. Then open track #1 and scroll to the bottom and right click the last trackpoint and click "paste" in the box that just popped up. If there are more tracks to add then open track #3 copy all the points open track #1 (which now has #2 in it) scroll to bottom and paste. Repeat ad nauseam. This copy paste system should give you a track with the correct stats.
  • Are you using Windows? Because I'm on a Mac, and those steps, specifically the PASTE command does not work as you have specified, for me. In fact, PASTE is greyed out in the menu as well.

    I can open the second track, CMD-A and select all points, CMD-C to copy all points. When I open the first track, the CMD-V is greyed out.

    Now, if I open another app like Notes, and paste, all points are pasted as a tab or space delimited text. So I know copy and paste work, just not in Basecamp as you have suggested.



    MacOS 10.13.6
    Basecamp 4.7.0

  • So I used those two tracks that were imported, and decided to delete the entry 90 from the first track. This time, I was able to use the menu item Join Tracks, and the join worked. So it seems the last item of my first track was what was tripping up the join process. I'm guessing that if I had three tracks, I would have to delete the last point in the first two tracks in order to it to work correctly.

    Thanks for attempting to resolve. I am curious why you have a PASTE and I do not.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 7 years ago
    Sorry Tj....I am using a PC and forgot that I was responding to the MAC forum :rolleyes: