XT2: Section 3 - Collections & GPX Files

3.07 - Internal Storage - Transfer/Import

When Placing GPX files into the Internal Storage / GPX folder
  1. Waypoints from all new GPX files are imported during start-up. This happens automatically during start-up from an XT2 that is re-booting eg after disconnecting the USB cable from the computer. You have no control over the Collections to which they are allocated: they are all imported assigned to 'Unorganised'. By the time the XT2 reports that new data is availble to import, and invites you to import or not, the new Waypoints have already been imported !
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  2. The XT2 will not create you two copies of Waypoints - so if you use the menus to select and delete waypoints, you can then re-import them, and you have the option of linking to the collection(s) of your choice.
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  3. Tracks are not imported automatically during start-up.
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  4. But - when you select any track from any gpx file in Internal Storage, ALL tracks from ANY new gpx file are imported - whether the file/track was selected or not.
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  5. The track data in the gpx file is then removed. None of the tracks can be imported a second time - the data in the Gpx file has been removed.
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  6. Just to emphasise: If you delete a track that was imported from Internal Storage, then it will not be there to import again. It has gone forever.
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  7. New Routes are not imported automatically after a reboot.
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  8. Routes and Waypoints can be selected from selcted gpx files and can then be selected from a list of routes or waypoints. Only the selected items are imported.
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  9. This means that you can select all GPX files, then select waypoints and tracks - and then select only the waypoints or tracks that you want to import. It will onle import the selected items.
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  10. Routes and Waypoints can be selected for import more than once. For Routes this result in multiple (numbered) copies being saved - the duplicate will have a number appended. Waypoints are stored, but duplicates will not be created.
Pic 2 - One GPx file placed in Internal Storage on the XT2.
Importing from GPX files in Internal Storage.

Note that the 14 tracks have been imported already. You canot import them again - the data in the GPX file has been deleted.
3.07 - Internal Storage - Transfer/Import
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