Garmin Connect doesn't have any facility for editing route names as far as I can see. I could do much the same using 'Ride with GPS', which has the marginal advantage that I can bulk-upload courses before renaming and re-downloading them one by one. I could also rename them all by uploading them one at a time to BikeHike and then re-downloading them with the new name. 19) This should now show the route/routes that have been loaded. It is possible to edit course names on the device itself, but it's a bloody fag doing it all letter-by-letter with that joy-stick thing. 18) Once you have selected the file, click the Open button on the bottom right of the dialog. Presumably, the old names are somehow recorded in the body of the file, in a bit that the Garmin reads and interprets as the name. I've looked in the 'properties' of the files on the PC, but there is no sign of the original file names. Once youve done that, remove all fit files from the GARMINACTIVTY folder on your Garmin support rep sent me the procedure below to reformat watch on a PC. And I was surprised to discover that, when I open my list of 'Courses' on the device (away from the PC), I see not the file names that appear on my PC, by the names that the files had when first downloaded from the route planner.

I've recently transferred a bunch of these files to my Garmin. Also, some of the files are the product of merging operations, in the context of which 'working' files were sometimes saved with names such as 'temp' or 'start' or just the default 'BikeHike_Course', before the finished file was given a permanent name. This collection has grown up in an ad-hoc fashion and, at a certain stage, I felt it necessary to rename 30 or 40 files to make the structure of the file names more uniform. Although I've been a Garmin owner for less than a month, I've been creating GPX/TCX files in the context of route planning for a few years, and now have a modest little collection.

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