Deleted Routes Reappearing

[Regain]

@FrankB thanks for your testing on the XT. I can’t remember it ever happening on my 346 or any other Garmin I’ve used (many) but it definitely does on the XT2 despite me trying all the different deleting methods.

I’m all ears to anything you might discover though. The XT2 takes a lot of understanding to use all of its bells and whistles. I’ll be on a longer tour in Summer when I’ll put my routes into collections and not delete them until I return. If any of my older routes reappear, I suspect they’ll be outside of my tour collections and won’t mess up the library.

[FrankB]

@Regain
The XT2 is definitely a different beast. It has collections that you can use on the device, and the Explore app. Things my XT doesn't have and could make a difference.

When deleting routes/trips I would stick to John's advice:

If you want to delete routes from the XT2

• Always delete them from the XT2 screen first.
• And if you want to delete everything from the XT2 - then delete everything using the XT2 screen
• And then delete current.gpx, temp.gpx and any other gpx files that contain routes/waypoints/tracks from the GPX folder in Internal Storage.
• And delete any GPX files from the Garmin/GPX folder on the SD card.

[smfollen]

@FrankB Thanks for the XT testing. Yes, this might be an XT2 specific thing. I'll keep an eye out for it and share anything I learn.

@Regain Something to consider for your long summer travel. For any non-trivial travel, I have been saving a copy of my routes on the sd card (gpx files). The XT2, Tread, Explore, etc. will never mess with those so you always have a reliable backup.
Note that if you use the XT2 to save the routes onto the memory card, you have to restart the XT2 before you can re-import them.

[jfheath]

If you want to make them reappear, I think you need to delete them from the folders and then restart the Zumo.

That just proves that it is not the way to do it, and that the info is stored elsewhere.

[Regain]

Thanks everyone for the advice. Trust me, I've deleted in every which way and they still came back. It's obviously impractical to connect via USB when away from home but I doubt I'll need to delete anything whilst away, even any ad-hoc routes made. For the long tour, all my routes will be in both MRA and Tread so unlikely to disappear.

I keep opening the Tread app and nothing reappears. It's connected to Explore so it must be the XT2 that is spinning them round. A few deletes and they seem to finally disappear. Hey ho.