BC very slow export, track handling buggy

Former Member over 15 years ago

I started using Basecamp recently to plan routes I want to transfer to my Edge 705. I used the 705 to track my training for about a year and have accumulated a substantial amount of tracks in "history".

Now Basecamp alway transfers all those tracks to the computer whenever I plug in my Garmin device. That is a little annoying, since i takes a long time until I can copy anything to the device, but not enough of a nuisance to make me really complain.

The bad thing is, that transferring anything to the 705 takes about 10 Minutes, even if it is only one route consisting of only three waypoints. I could live with that, too - but the bad thing is, that I cannot stop the program from transferring all my tracks into "Saved rides" on the device. The File "Temp.gpx" in the subfolder "GPX" on the 705 is almost 32MB - no wonder it takes long to transfer. This happens even if I deselect "Tracks" in the export Dialog.

The worst thing about this is, that it takes around 20 Minutes for the Edge 705 to power up after every transfer and it takes another 14 Minutes only to enter the Menu "Go where?"->"Saved rides". Yes, thats 14 Minutes only to select the Menu until the 705 accepts other input. I assume it is because of those many tracks I didn't want to have there in the first place.

Unfortunately I have not found a way to get rid of those tracks, save of deleting "temp.gpx" and transferring routes and waypoints with mapsource on PeCee. Deleting the tracks from "My Collection" on Basecamp had no effect (apart from those tracks no longer being displayed in Basecamp - the are still being transferret to "temp.gpx).

Does anyone know of a way to get rid of those tracks? And to stop Basecamp from importing my "History" over and over again? I have not use for my history data in Basecamp.

BTW this is Basecamp 3.0.1, Edge FW 3.10.

0 Former Member over 14 years ago

You can drag and drop a specific route to your device.

Alternatively, if you're using the "Send to GPS" button in your toolbar, just edit the list you're using to only have the routes you want to send in it. That dialog sends the contents of the current list.

0 Former Member over 14 years ago

Yep, found that out too, many thanks.

I'm starting to get warmer with BC.

0 PSEABOLT over 14 years ago

This is a standard mac feature. OS X always put deleted items in the trash to give you one last chance to retrieve the deleted file before you empty trash. Anytime I work with a mount volume, I empty the trash if I want the file deleted.

If you are working from a memory stick you see your file in the mac trash can if the memory stick is mounted. If you empty the trash, the memory will show additional memory available for use.

I am not sure how many of garmin GPSs with a different model number works the same but my Oragon, Dakota, and Nuvi work just like a memory stick, in that if you delete something from the GPS using OS X finder you can retrieve the file from the mac desktop trash until the trash is deleted.

Me again,

after a long night I managed to find out where all these routes did hide...

Mac or BC create a "hidden" folder named "trashes" on the micro sd and the internal memory. All the routes and history protocols have been transferred to the internal "trashes" folder. With standard settings the folder does not appear in Windows or Mac (be sure to activate: "show hidden folders").

I now cleared everything off and my edge is "virgin" again. However there seem to be a major issue with the file transfer BC to edge. I will continue to use it under Mapsource on an old PC and wait for a working BC version.

I wonder if BC is able to transfer just one route to the device (as Mapsource) or does it always transfer the whole collection of routes in my lists?

Kind regards

Christian

0 Former Member over 14 years ago

I am not sure how many of garmin GPSs with a different model number works the same but my Oragon, Dakota, and Nuvi work just like a memory stick, in that if you delete something from the GPS using OS X finder you can retrieve the file from the mac desktop trash until the trash is deleted.

If it's possible for you to go and delete GPX files off of the device in Finder, then you should empty your Mac's trash before you eject it, as well. Otherwise the OS will leave a .trashes folder on the device with the deleted files in it.

0 STROMGITARRERO over 14 years ago

Hi,

However discovered another thing and thats a serious. When sending a route to the Edge, BC sends ALL History as routes back to the Edge. Under my saved routes on the 705 I now have hundreds of files!

The worse thing: the gpx folder on the 705 is empty! I can't manually delete anything! This renders my edge useless....

I need urgent help

Thanks

I got the same problem, is there are workaround or maybe a working software?:mad: