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I am really gonna feel stupid when this gets answered. When I download files they come up on notepad, what then. They won't copy/paste, what do I do.....Go ahead make your day.

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Etrex Legend C, Nuvi 750 .........The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.....

Are you talking about

Are you talking about downloading custom pois from this site?

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.

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What exactly is it that you are trying to do?

Are you trying to edit the files or load them to the GPS unit?

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Yes, files from this site, and I want to get them to the GPS.

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Etrex Legend C, Nuvi 750 .........The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.....

The fils downloaded from

The fils downloaded from this site are either csv or gpx for custom poi's.Are you right clicking on the file and opening it in notepad?

What file on this site is it so we can look at it?

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.

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No, they just open as text. Maybe something is set that way in my computer. It's any file.

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Etrex Legend C, Nuvi 750 .........The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.....

What file on this site is it

What file on this site is it so we can look at it?

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.

I've tried at least a dozen, all do it

I've tried at least a dozen, all do it

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Etrex Legend C, Nuvi 750 .........The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.....

Righ click on the file and

Righ click on the file and open up in notepad.Then go to top of page under file click save as.Then put the name of the file you want to call it then a period after the name then csv then click save and see what happens. example lowes.csv make sure the period is there and after saving see if you have a csv file.

When you hold your cursor on the file it should show what type of file it is?I have sinlge click mouse so you may need to click once to get it to show.Tell me what it says?

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.

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Ok, you don't need to open the files on your computer unless you want to look at what's in there. In order to LOAD them to your GPS unit, you need to use POI Loader.

Read through the 'getting started' and 'faqs' sections linked at the top of each page. Those sections will provide you with TONS of information.

Here's the basic procedure.

Download and install Garmin's POI Loader onto your computer in order to LOAD Custom POI files onto your GPS unit.

http://www8.garmin.com/products/poiloader/

Then create a folder on your computer for your Custom POI files.

Download and/or create whatever Custom POI files you want to load onto your GPS unit and place ALL of them in that folder and keep them there.

Attach your GPS unit to your computer with a USB cable. (Alternately, if you have a unit that will read the Custom POIs from the SD card, attach or insert the SD card to the computer.)

Run the POI Loader program that you installed to your computer and follow the prompts.

Select your GPS unit (or SD card if applicable) as the destination for the Custom POIs in the POI Loader screen. Use the drop down arrow if necessary.

When it asks for the location of the data, Select 'Browse ...' and navigate to the appropriate folder.

Select Manual or Express Mode using the drop down list. (Express Mode will set alerts based upon the data in the files. Manual Mode will allow you to set the alert information manually, if desired.)

If you select Manual instead of Express, you can set Proximity and Speed alerts for your POIs.

Follow the prompts.

Express Mode will load you files and present you with a Finish screen indicating how many POIs were loaded.

Manual Mode will present you with each POI file you have in your folder giving you the opportunity to skip loading that file, and to set or change the speed or proximity alert information. At the end Manual Mode will also present you with a Finish screen indicating how many POIs were loaded.

POI Loader will create a file in the destination you chose named POI.GPI with all your Custom POIs.

We need to find out if he hs

We need to find out if he hs the right file first before trying to transfer?

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.

Wellll...I'm back!

I finally got it to down load the correct file. I downloaded it on the nuvi. Just as a test I downloaded the "pharmacies in Philadelphia", who knows I might go there someday. They showed up in Pharmacies, not in another folder of Custom Poi's on the GPS, is this the normal way it happens?

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Etrex Legend C, Nuvi 750 .........The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.....

Glad you got it to work.Yes

Glad you got it to work.Yes if you had folder set up for pharmacies.

I also have a lot of files that maybe one day I will use so I just keep them on the computer and will load as needed.

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.

Thanks sooo much for your time....

This was all my fault, on Firefox a Downloads box comes up that has the csv file and an option to "open"....guess what happens if you open it? it opens in notepad. The file was already where I have it putting my downloaded files. I told you I would feel stupid.
But anyway it's all O.K. now....I'm even ready for a trip to a Pharmacy in Philadelphia....eh?

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Etrex Legend C, Nuvi 750 .........The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.....

When you start really

When you start really getting into this gps file stuff it is easy to get turned around some times but that is what makes it fun.Now you can download all you want.Have you make your own file yet?

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.

No....

I'm exhausted for now...maybe later.

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Etrex Legend C, Nuvi 750 .........The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.....

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smile No Problem you need microsoft's office program with excel to open the poi files in the csv format with out the program they will just open in notepad

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This is because your file

This is because your file association is set to open .csv files with notepad. It is probably better for viewing .csv fiels to open them in something like Excel. This is a Windows setting.

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Everything is fine now...I've downloaded many files. Thanks to everyone for their help...this is a great site.

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Etrex Legend C, Nuvi 750 .........The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.....

That is what my thought was...and...

royalty wrote:

This is because your file association is set to open .csv files with notepad. It is probably better for viewing .csv fiels to open them in something like Excel. This is a Windows setting.

If you open the file from windows explorer and it opens up with notepad, then it is a file association problem. To fix, just right click on the file and click properties and then there is a place where it says "Open with..." and click the change button and select Excel.

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