Thanks, lignumaqua, and sorry for not answering your suggestion. There are two reasons why I wanted to avoid GPX. First, for the last three years or so, I have been experiencing one Garmin crash after another. The crashes always occur on booting, and seem to be widely experienced by other users.
I have gone through three earlier Oregons and two 62s. The crashes occur very frequently and have ruined quite a few geocaching expeditions. I have worked extensively with Garmin over this period, and they have replaced my units over and over. Note: Usually, a factory reset, which I have done dozens of times, fixes the crash, but on several occasions, every trick in Garmin's book failed to revive the unit and they replaced them.
When I saw the new Oregon line, using a new file format, I had new hope. And, after four weeks or so of very heavy use, my Oregon 650t has not had a single bootup crash. I can't say for sure that that is due to the GGZ format, but I'm not excited about tempting fate and going back to GPX.
The second reason is, I will exceed the 2,000 (4,000?) limit, at least for my "unfound" cache list.
I have fewer than 100 child waypoints total, so don't mind too much adding those to my non-geocache waypoint list in GSAK. I currently have a dozen or so general waypoints, for trailheads, etc, in that database, and exporting them as GPX has not caused a problem. According to Garmin, it was the number of geocaches that was causing all the crashes on my earlier units (even though it was less than the 5,000 max).
Thanks again for the help. I love GSAK and the new Oregon!
I have gone through three earlier Oregons and two 62s. The crashes occur very frequently and have ruined quite a few geocaching expeditions. I have worked extensively with Garmin over this period, and they have replaced my units over and over. Note: Usually, a factory reset, which I have done dozens of times, fixes the crash, but on several occasions, every trick in Garmin's book failed to revive the unit and they replaced them.
When I saw the new Oregon line, using a new file format, I had new hope. And, after four weeks or so of very heavy use, my Oregon 650t has not had a single bootup crash. I can't say for sure that that is due to the GGZ format, but I'm not excited about tempting fate and going back to GPX.
The second reason is, I will exceed the 2,000 (4,000?) limit, at least for my "unfound" cache list.
I have fewer than 100 child waypoints total, so don't mind too much adding those to my non-geocache waypoint list in GSAK. I currently have a dozen or so general waypoints, for trailheads, etc, in that database, and exporting them as GPX has not caused a problem. According to Garmin, it was the number of geocaches that was causing all the crashes on my earlier units (even though it was less than the 5,000 max).
Thanks again for the help. I love GSAK and the new Oregon!