Interesting bug today. I loaded a route to climb Les Deux Alpes in France and it gave me directions for another of my routes in South West London in the UK. I wondered why I was constantly being directed to my local park. Had to remove the cached version and recalculate once I realised. Not seen this before.
Remains an intriguing issue though because not everyone sees those ghosts
There are more than a dozen 1040 Forum topics in the last 10 months that report different aspects of the "ghost course…
You can remove the cached route through the UI on the Edge by
Navigation -> Courses -> Course name -> 3 dot menu -> Route Calculation
You can also remove it through the backdoor by deleting…
I'm afraid that does not work, because the previous route (let's call it Previous) is not there. There is no file Garmin\Courses\Previous_course.fit, there is also no file Garmin\Calcs\Previous_course…
I'm afraid it's not fixed. I'm on v16.13 and am having this problem. I got the 1040 for Christmas, so only now really started riding it outdoors with courses.
Yesterday I went out on a 90km road ride. I saw the pink track with chevrons and started following it. After a while I smelled something fishy, so stopped to check and sure enough, I was way off track at that point. I ended up riding 105km in total after I had to find a way back to my intended route.
Today I set off on an mtb ride, and you guessed it, same thing happened. This time I stopped immediately to see what was going on. Took a snap with my phone.
Notice the blue line showing where I have been, the dark purple line above indicating part of the route I was yet to cover, and the light purple line with chevrons on the right hand side, which was part of some other route I did a while back.
I removed all courses from the device, except the one I was riding, but it was still showing.
I've never interacted with the file system in the 1040 directly, everything done via the in device UI.
I would add to the chorus saying that I'm very disappointed for such an expensive device. But I'm a Garmin veteran, so am not really shocked, nor am I surprised that this issue is still not fixed after so long.
I will try removing the cached route next time to see if it helps. I've had (and have) a number of other issues (most annoying so far is Varia radar disconnecting/connecting), but this one is a deal breaker. If it's not fixed I will start hassling the retailer for a warranty exchange/refund.
