Nuvi 360 - Removing a List of POIs from the Favorites

besides the mac issue...lol sorry not familiar with them.

Your Favorites have the gpx extension,
when a poi.gpx(or csv) file is loaded via garmin loader it is changed to a poi.gpi file. So, by loading directly to your garmin, you inadvertently added a "Favorite" file not a "Poi" file.

You could perhaps do some editing using Mapsource.
Transfer your current 400+ "favorites" into Mapsource. Save that file, then edit it only the Favorites you want, save that file. Then send that edited file back to your gpsr...You may have to manually delete your favorites one by one...from the unit...or do a drastic major reset, whereby you'll lose all of your customizations. Then send the edited Favorites from mapsource back to the unit.

Chose Where To and Near

Selected Honolulu as the most Westerly point then started to select, edit, delete, confirm delete yes.

You eventually build up a rhythm and cramped fingers

A learning experience.

Thought about blowing away the entire favourites files but I needed some of the points this weekend on a trip.

Cheers

Bob
Ottawa, Canada

This happened to me when I stored the National Parks GPX file on the SD card in my nuvi 200. The nuvi loaded them directly into Favorites without me using POI Loader.

I had to delete each POI manually. If there had been thousands, I would have deleted the current.gpx file from the nuvi, but that means losing your favorites if you don't have that file backed up.

Assuming that the entries you wish to save in your Favorites is a fairly short list, you can do the following:

Attach the Nuvi to your Mac, and wait for it to mount as a disk.

Look into volume nuvi:/Garmin/Gpx

cp[y the current.gpx file to a backup, then copy only the entries you created - most likely they will be at the top of the file. Delete the rest of the entries and then unmount the nuvi.

In general, it's a good idea to take a backup of current.gpx.

Sorry, this won't work. I tried to remove what I didn't want by deleting the Favorites file. The Nuvi keeps a backup copy of your favorites hidden somewhere (and heaven knows I looked for it but couldn't find it).

I accidentally put all the mileage points for the Bruce Trail into Favorites. The alternatives are a complete reset and lose all your Favorites, or manually remove them. You do develop a pattern when you have a couple hundred to delete...

Are you using a Mac? The nuvi doesn't create any backup file of your Favorites. They exist in your current.gpx as previous described. But Macs create a Trash folder and put the deleted items in there.

When the unit boots, it scans the file system for .gpx files. Normally, it will only find \garmin\gpx\current.gpx. Occasionally, it finds \garmin\gpx\temp.gpx (created by mapsource).
It merges any new waypoints it finds, with the current working list of Favourites (internal) and deletes the .gpx file.

Then it rewrites \garmin\gpx\current.gpx, with a copy of the newly updated list of Favourites.

One other thing that I forgot to mention and may not apply to all units, but on my Zumo, when I select a Favorite and then select "Delete", if I scroll up to the top of the list there is a "Select All" option. Users might want to check their units for this.

Even if you don't want to delete all of them, if you want to delete most of them, it would be less work to use "Select All" and then deselect the ones you want to keep.

Hello Bob

If you aquire either an XML editor or a GPX editor you can bulk delete entries in the GPS file

GPX is just XML with extensions and the required extension locations are in the header of the GPX so the XML editor can understand them

If you have a MAC you will need to find a suitable XML editor I use XML notepad from Microsoft