Organize (alphabetical order under custom POIs)--Problem solved

Speed2, I feel your pain. I went through the exact same thing about 2 years ago, first with a 60CSx, then later with an Oregon 400c and lastly with an Oregon 400t. I tried all of the things mentioned above in this thread to no avail. This is a very long post but may give you some insight as to the problem.

I inquired on another forum if others were seeing the same randomness of the single .gpi file not putting the categories in alphabetical order and really got no responses that seem to fix the problem. It seems that very few people actually have this exact problem and/or go to the trouble to resolve it.

I have never used any types of alerts of any kind, no distance, no sound (.mpg or .wav), etc. just several POI files in both .csv and .gpx formats and no sub-folders are being used; all categories (individual .gpx or .csv files) are put into 1 POI.gpi file, but each file does have a custom icon (.bmp file) associated. So the root cause has nothing to do with alerts.

I tried all of the things back then that have been suggested in this thread and have been following it closely to see if I might have missed something, not yet, but am hoping that I did actually do something wrong to once and for all get this problem resolved.

After much trial and error I was able to determine that some of my custom icon (.bmp files) were playing some part and having an impact in the alphabetical order sorting. I have never used POI Loader in the "Manual" mode. I finally quit spending the time to try to investigate what and where the root cause of the problem was being triggered.

Now, I was able to force the categories into ascending alphabetical order and this is what I've had to do.
1. Create a 2nd empty POI folder for my single POI.gpi file to be created from.

2. Copy or cut and paste each individual poi (.gpx or .csv) file (in alphabetical order) along with it's associated custom icon file (.bmp file) into the newly created POI folder 1 file + 1 .bmp file at a time. See next step before doing 2nd file.

3. Here is the clincher, after transferring each single POI category (gpx or csv file) and it's icon REFREASH THE FOLDER. If you have 20 categories (20 .gpx and/or .csv files) then yes you will have to refreash the folder 20 times. Ex. copy Airports.gpx and Airports.bmp and refreash the folder, then copy Dive Shops.csv and Dive Shops.bmp and refreash the folder, etc.

4. Doing it as described, all files did appear in alphabetical order, granted a real Pain to do; especially considering any time I add a new file (.gpx or .csv) or change custom icons I have to repeat the above process.

Some things I was able to eliminate as the culprit: whether on the memory card or unit's internal memory - made no difference; number of .gpx and/or .csv files made no difference; type of file - .csv or .gpx makes no difference; was not using sub-folders so no affect there; no proximity alerts and no sound files ever used - so not the culprit.

The time and/or order that the .bmp file (custom icon file) was added to the POI folder definitely affected the ability for POI Loader to recognize just the .csv or .gpx file and alphabetize the various .csv and .gpx files in the POI.gpi folder. It appears that some .bmp files are being used in the sort order erroneously in alphabetizing the .csv and .gpx files and this is only occuring in a very few instances. As a side note, the custom icons always appear properly on the GPS, some with transparent backgrounds and others with no-transparent backgrounds.

I finally just got tired of spending the time to determine a proper fix. One thing I would suggest that I never did do is to do a comlete uninstall of POI Loader making sure to remove all registry entries and do a new install.

I am going to continue to watch this thread closely in hopes that I missed something.

I tried it twice and it works. So simple too, now that i think of it. Never really paid attention, that it actually tells you what file it wants to load. Key was, leave it in manual.
AWESOME thanks jthawkin

To all of you, for putting up with me on this.

I'm glad to hear you got it fixed, and are happy!

Your problem we can't solve though. Not unless you go back to the old firmware or hope the new one will have it.

What problem did I have? Remind me again, please?

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/27546

I think that one cannot be fixed. But, so be it.

Do we want to tackle the problem of sorting in reverse order if the source is on the SD card in the GPS but the POIs are loaded into the internal memory using express mode?

Speed2, you are welcome and I am glad that you got it to work.

The question doesn't address that problem.

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Why post this 3 times

Notice that there is no response. Don't have a clue . . .there I deleted everything in the 1st two, but can't even edit the 3rd

jthawkins suggests a straightforward way to accomplish what you want. The first time I employed this method, I failed to realize that POILoader would only show me 27 characters of my file name. Because I had a very descriptive name and had added comments at the end of the file name as to what distance I really wanted, I often could not determine whether to just click "Next>" at the bottom of the screen or click the box "This file contains proximity alerts points" in order to then click the radio button "Alert whenever you get close to a point" and enter a number in the "Alert at this distance field".

My suggestion would be this. Keep the name short but descriptive so you don't have to keep another Explorer window open to see what the full name of the file about to be processed really is.

I have loads of POI's without subfolders & the way I get them all back in alphabetical order is to do my updating in one location on the computer and then when finished copy that completed POI file to a NEW location (ie desktop) and load the GPS (755) from there with POI loader. The updated files now all show up in alphabetical order under "Extras" on the Nuvi.

Gonna try this.

The answer is simple. Create a new Temp Folder on your desktop and copy all your POIs to it. Then use POI
Loader to install from the Temp Folder. They will install alphabetically on your GPS. When done rename the Temp Folder "POI Backup with the date" and save on your computer. This works every time.

You can set the order by renaming the folders OR files. use numbers to to set the order.
Example: 1. Rest Areas
2. Parking
3. Fuel Stops
This works with both Files & Folders in your "Custom POI's"

The order depends on the creation date & time of the folders.

In case you may not be aware of it. Putting numbers to folders will get you automatic speed alerts.