Anybody have a Garmin Oregon? Need help.

[No1Mugster]

Can you use the memory card to add more GPX files? I’ve tried it but it doesn’t seem to work. What’s the point of the memory card?

[dartymoor]

Ho No1Mugster

I have a 450 and love it.

I’m afraid the cache limit is not one of filesize, but of memory and is fixed, depending on the model.

“The Oregon 300 and 400 support up to a maximum of 2000 geocaches (in addition to the 1000 waypoint limit). The Oregon 450 and 550 support up to 5000 geocaches.”

The micro sd card is there to allow Garmin to sell the oregon with additional maps. Eg, if you buy the exhorbitantly overpriced landranger OS map for the garmin, it arrives on an sd card and you just slot in.

[No1Mugster]

Ahhh right, I have a 450 too. I wasn’t aware that it could hold 5000 caches. After adding 1000 it showed the memory was very nearly full so I didn’t bother adding any more.

[dartymoor]

It’ll only accept 200 .gpx files which can be a problem if you add them individually, but as Pocket Queries combine your searches into one file of up to a thousand, there’s a way around that, or you could use something like GSAK to combine I imagine.

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