Garmin Edge 800 manual upload gpx via Garmin Connect - gpx has already been uploaded

When I try to create a new course in Garmin Connect - Plan - Courses (doesn't matter if device is connected or not) I can not import more than one .gpx file without getting the following error:
File Name.gpx has already been uploaded. Click here to view (hyperlink).

It isn't clear exactly what your problem is or what you are trying to do. Garmin Connect doesn't allow you to import courses. You can only import activities. When you import the activity file, Garmin Connect checks that time stamp within the file to tell if the activity is the same as one you've previously uploaded. If you upload the same activity twice, it will fail with this message.

If you want to create multiple copies of the same course, you should be able to import the activity file once. Once you've got it imported, open up the activity and click the Save as Course button in the title bar. Give the course a name and save it. If you want another copy of the course, go back to the activity file you imported earlier and repeat the process.

If you are just trying to upload your activity files, then the above comment applies. You can't upload the same activity multiple times.

Travis

Sorry for the confusion! I've only got the 800 on Monday having moved over from a 'dead' Mio 305 HC.
I am trying to manually import .gpx files and them upload them to my 800. All the files were copied to the directory where they are stored on my PC at the same time.
If I understand your info about the time stamp within the file correctly, and that is the same time stamp as shown in the properties (right click - properties) of the file then that might explain the problem, as they all effectively have the same time stamp from when they were copied!

My reason for wanting to do this is that when following my existing .gpx files (club rides) I want the 800 to be able to display the info for 'distance to next' and 'location at next'. I'm not sure it will do that without some work through Garmin Connect. I believe (in simplistic terms!) that Garmin Connect will then add or associate data from my installed CN Europe NT maps to upload with the file when sent to my 800. I think that info would be displayed in the data fields 'distance to next' and 'location at next'. Or would that info be displayed anyway from the NT map if I was just following a plain basic .gpx file copied straight into the New Files Folder? Sorry if I'm over complicating things, but the I'm finding that info on the way devices like these handle .gpx files is on a less than intuitive learning curve!!
Garmin's manuals are not very helpful and there is so much info on line, that it's hard to know where to start to get an idiots guide on this subject. I don't think I'm alone in my experiences. I'm a industrial instrument control technician and used to programming and maintaining instrumentation of all kinds, but this is a little out of my field of experience!!! ;-) I'm sure like anything the subject is easy when you get to grips with it, but at the moment it's one forward and 1 1/2 back!
Thanks so much for your reply :-)
Tim

Let's start at the beginning. You had a Mio. You recorded many activities over the years. You have gpx files for these activities. You want to have the routes from those activities uploaded to your Edge as courses so you can have turn-by-turn directions. Right?

Something that may work would be to just copy the gpx files to the NewFiles folder on your Edge. Once you've done that, restart it and see if the files were imported as courses.

If that doesn't work, you may need to upload the gpx files to Garmin Connect, convert them each to a course, then upload them to your Edge. If you get the error indicating that you have already uploaded an activity, but the existing activity isn't the same, you need to fix the time stamp in the file and re-upload. The gpx file is just a xml file. You can open it with any text editor. You will see a time stamp near the start of the file. If I remember correctly, the time stamp is an ISO8601 formatted date-time value (2013-05-31T20:52:17Z). You need to adjust that value, and save and upload that file.

Travis

Let's start at the beginning. You had a Mio. You recorded many activities over the years. You have gpx files for these activities. You want to have the routes from those activities uploaded to your Edge as courses so you can have turn-by-turn directions. Right?

Something that may work would be to just copy the gpx files to the NewFiles folder on your Edge. Once you've done that, restart it and see if the files were imported as courses.

If that doesn't work, you may need to upload the gpx files to Garmin Connect, convert them each to a course, then upload them to your Edge. If you get the error indicating that you have already uploaded an activity, but the existing activity isn't the same, you need to fix the time stamp in the file and re-upload. The gpx file is just a xml file. You can open it with any text editor. You will see a time stamp near the start of the file. If I remember correctly, the time stamp is an ISO8601 formatted date-time value (2013-05-31T20:52:17Z). You need to adjust that value, and save and upload that file.

Travis

Wonderful! Thanks. I had the same problem, and this was the solution...to a poor implementation by Garmin.

Sean