PVFD304

Downloaded two different courses from RideWithGPS and placed them into the "New" folder on my Garmin Edge 500. They show up under the "Courses" folder when viewing with laptop but they do not show up when looking for them on the Edge.

Only two of my 5 courses are showing up.

Any ideas?

I've used this feature before without any problem. Don't know whats going on now.

Thanks for any help

njkayaker

It should be "\Garmin\NewFiles".

PVFD304

Yep thats where I saved the files to.

Don't understand why I can see them when connected to laptop in "Courses" folder but they are not there when you look for them on the Edge.

Looigi

It seems you already know that when you put a tcx file into the NewFiles folder on the 500, the next time you start the 500 it coverts it to a .fit file, moves it to the Courses folder, and deletes the original tcx file from the NewFiles folder. If it's doing that and the corresponding fit file appears in the Courses folder as filename_course.fit, I don't know why it wouldn't appear under Courses on the device's display.

seajaye

i have had problems when uploading multiple .tcx files to "new files" and then only one shows up in "courses" on first power-up. i've resorted to uploading one, ejecting, power on to check course, power off, plug in, upload next file, repeat....

so, do you eject the garmin, power on, and *then* cannot find it under "courses" once you plug it back in on the laptop?

footnote: this problem used to be with ubuntu 12.04, but now for whatever reason my garmin is a "read-only device" as of a couple of weeks ago. have been using windows but still follow the above method to be 100% sure i'll get all the courses processed.

njkayaker

I actually had the same problem once uploading a set of gpx route files to a 800. I didn't figure out why.

Note that the names for the routes have to be short (<= 12 chars). You can "lose" routes that share the same first 12 chars).

springs

Check the group permissions on the Garmin, and either change it or make yourself a member of that group. It might fix the issue on Ubuntu. I had a similar problem after going to 14.04.

seajaye

i always keep the route names short and simple (usually for brevets, i separate by checkpoint and so have 5-6 routes going onto the garmin for the ride). i've realized the limited display means i have to do "1 citgo" "2 village bakery" to keep everything straight

i have tried editing permissions by right-clicking....i am the only user, admin, logged in as myself, but it still always gives me the no-go. i have read about ways to edit flash drives in terminal, but am hesitant to mess with it because it's a garmin with a file structure and not just some $5 empty flash drive.