Mapsource ver 6.15.6 Bug in GPX save

[GreenGiant]

Is anyone else experiencing this bug? When you save to (export) to GPX file the application crashes? The version is 6.15.6

I emailed Garmin and they said that it was something wrong with my computer (bu11$hit) and when I pushed back they said I had to call Tech Support so that they could trouble shoot the problem – who has time for that?

[Xerien]

Yep. Exact same bug though it started for me with 6.154.
After bouncing emails for awhile, they concluded there was a bug, and that I should fall back to a prior stable version, which I had already done, and wait until they sort it out. I’m still waiting… (Wow, pretty impressive support.)

Here’s the final blurb from support.. Note that 6.141 is also stable.

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Thank you for contacting Garmin International. I would be happy to assist you. I had a call today with a customer who had a problem transferring waypoints to his unit. Doing a remote session on his computer I found that it was the same problem you are having, which is generating the .gpx files. I was able to import his waypoint file to my computer and generate a new file for him just fine. I would suggest at this point that you roll your mapsource version back to 6.13.7 linked below until we can further isolate the problem and come out with a fix.
http://www8.garmin.com/support/download … jsp?id=209
If you have any other questions, please feel free to reply to this message.

With Best Regards,
<snip>

This was from March 11, FWIW.

[GreenGiant]

Yeah, only I don’t think I have the previous version installed.

[Xerien]

Looks like that link they provided for 6.137 doesn’t work anymore either. It now gives 6.156. 😢

I found this a minute ago however – 6.141 and 6.137 are both available from the following site.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/morei … &mode=info

[IdahoCliff]

[quote]Is anyone else experiencing this bug? When you save to (export) to GPX file the application crashes? The version is 6.15.6 … /quote]

It’s frustrating that they can’t fix this problem. There does seem to be a fairly simple work-around. Before you import from your GPSr, you need to first open (with MapSource) an existing GPX file. Then to clear the file, select File > New and then import the data from your GPSr. You should then be able to save the data as a GPX file or as a GDB file and then a GPX file. There’s a fairly long thread in the GroundSpeak forum. My post is at:
http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index. … try4043920
/s/ Cliff

[Corey Maddocks ✓ supporter]

You should be able to read in from the Garmin directly, or the native Garmin file format and then convert it to GPX with GPS Babel

http://www.gpsbabel.org/

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