Deleting poi

There is an option in poi loader to erase all. Or just load what you want and what is there now will be erased.

When using Garmin's POI Loader it automatically erases all previous Custom POIs when you upload new ones to the GPS. You must have ALL the Custom POIs, Icons & sound files, that you want on the GPS, in the folder you ask POI Loader to load from.

EX:

My POIs' (Main folder)
>Rest_Areas.csv
>Rest_Areas.bmp
>Rest_Areas.wav
>Restaurants (sub folder)
>>CrackerBarrel.csv
>>CrackerBarrel.bmp
>>Olive_Garden.csv
>>Olive_Garden.bmp

My examples show .csv files and .wav but they may be .gpx and/or .mp3 files.

you can do it manually if u go into the garmin folder when you have it connected and just delete it from there

If you want to erase the POIs, just load the ones you want. Every time you run POI Loader it creates a new POI.gpi file. Since two files with the same name cannot exist in the same folder, the new one overwrites the old one. Nothing will bring back the POIs that were overwritten.

MrKenFL
No, not true if I understand what you are saying, if your GPS can be read as a hard drive as Nuvi can, everything does not have to be in one large file.

In your example, you can have one file that contains rest areas, with the BMP and MP3 files. Load that to the GPS (or better yet load it to your computer first) Name that file Rest Areas.

Then go to another file with restaurants and BMP and MP3 files in it, load that to the computer and name it Restaurants. So on and so on.

Then, copy those files to your GPS. That way, when you update you only have to update one smaller file.

If you want to keep your existing Custom POIs, rename poi.gpi file in poi folder on GPSr.

Then load only new files with poi loader. You will have both files in poi folder and all files will show up on GPSr.

poiOLD.gpi existing POIs
poi.gpi new POIs

Hope this helps.

I find this to be far more work if you do it for each POI. I'm like Ken, I just keep them all in 2 main folders, one for files that I have to assign alerts to, and one main folder with subfolders for everything else. When I load the alert folder I rename it like tampa says, then I only have to mess with that one when I'm updating one of those files. Most of the time I'm just modifying the other files, those I keep separate from the alerts so I can use express mode with them.