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Hi,

I have been trying to download the tracks from my Garmin GPS into GPSNavX without much success. My setup involves:

G5 iMac Mac OSX 10.4.7
Keyspan serial adapter
Garmin GPSmap 176
GPSNavX 4.25

I can start a download of the tracks and it gets about 15% through and then GPSNavX reports "Transfer incomplete". I have tried it several times with approximately the same result, sometimes it stops sooner.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Tim

You have to set the Garmin to 'NMEA In/Out' to connect it for navigation purposes, but change the setting to 'Garmin' when transferring waypoints routes and tracks.

Make sure the "Type" is set to "Garmin" in the GPS Panel Settings drawer.

I have also found if the GPS unit has an active waypoint it will sometimes fail.

Another option is to use LoadMyTracks and have it create a GPX file which you can then import into GPSNavX or MacENC

http://www.cluetrust.com/LoadMyTracks.html

Hi,

Thanks for the responses. I did use LoadMyTracks which appeared to work well and I also got GPSNavX working as well. I had one old track saved in the GPS (as opposed to the active track) and once I deleted that one saved track then the transfer completed smoothly. Go figure.

Tim

Another thing to check is that your Garmin GPS receiver has the latest firmware updates. The downside is you need Windows to update the firmware. On two occassions an updated firmware resolved the problem with transferring tracks, routes or waypoints to/fro a Garmin GPS receiver.

visit

http://www.garmin.com

to get the latest update for uploading to your Garmin GPS receiver.