Help (viewing favorite locations from a backup)

 

I am in Arizona and I left my Nuvi 255 back in Florida.
I need a Name, address, and phone number that I have in stored in my favs. I have done a back up of my nuvi and I have my computer with me. My question is, can I find the folder that would have the information stored in my backup folder. I have opened the back up folder and there are many sub folders. If I can, what is the name of the Favs. folder and can it be opened? Thanks.

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Paul..... Nuvi 765T

Open up your Garmin backup

Open up your Garmin backup folder and look for the gpx folder and click on it.Now right click the current gpx and open it up with notepad.

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

yes...

The file is in x:/Garmin/GPX and is named current.gpx. You can open this file using MapSource (if you have it on your system) or other similar software that can open .gpx files. I'm sure others here can suggest something free that will let you open the file. If you don't have a program that will open it, you can do the quick and dirty method...rename the file to current.gpx.txt and use notepad to open/scan the file for the info you're looking for.

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nuvi 760, nuvi 765T, nuvi 855, nuvi 3790LMT, nuvi 3490LMT - SoCal area

Thanks

charlesd45 wrote:

Open up your Garmin backup folder and look for the gpx folder and click on it.Now right click the current gpx and open it up with notepad.

Thanks, I found gpx folder and used notepad. I feel like a computer geek

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Paul..... Nuvi 765T

Glad you was able to get the

Glad you was able to get the information.

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

don't remane

DorkusNimrod wrote:

... If you don't have a program that will open it, you can do the quick and dirty method...rename the file to current.gpx.txt and use notepad to open/scan the file for the info you're looking for.

There is absolutely no reason to rename the file. You can open this file in Notepad (or any other text editor that I have ever used) without renaming it. It is much safer to learn to open files with other extensions than to rename things to have a txt extension, just so that you can open it by clicking on it.

Notepad does have a file size limit, and depending on when you last cleared the trip log / track log it might not open it (renamed extension or not). Other editors have less restrictive limits or no piratical limit beyond system memory at all. For a good free text editor without limits, there is "editpad lite", available here:
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html

great

this is terrific - i was having the same issue

thanks for lending a hand - now i know