Seems a lot easier than having 2 MapSource programs open and copy/pasting a lot. You don't really need to create folders at all if you don't want to, just import all the gpx files and export 'My Collection' and you will get a gpx file with all your tracks in it. You already figured out how to do it (but you do lose the folders if you re-import that gpx file.) If all you wanted to do is store all hikes in a single gpx file, that is really simple in BaseCamp. MapSource doesn't support folders at all, so I am not sure this will help you. (A Backup will create a *.zip file with everything you need to get exactly to where you were.) The only way to preserve folders would be to do a Backup and Restore. The folder information is not stored when you export as gpx or gdb. It's either a comprehension problem on my part or still too many inconsistencies/limitations in the way Garmin has implemented it. I've read the documentation and many helpful explanations in here. And why? :confused: (Sorry, I'm not asking for an explanation from anyone.
That's the part of Basecamp that I still haven't sorted out in my head. I'm just not sure where/how it will show up when you open the file. Once that is done, you should be able to use the resulting file in Basecamp. Once you have all the tracks usable in a single window, you also have the option in Mapsource of joining tracks together using the track editing tools, if that is something that would be useful. Mapsource never messes with your files unless you do something explicitly using the FILE > Save/Save As menu yourself. When you are done, your original folder structure will still be in place, untouched. In Mapsource you have the choice of saving as either a GPX or GDB file. When you have all the tracks pasted into the second Mapsource window, save the file and you now have all of the hiking tracks viewable in a single file. Just keep opening track GPX files in the first window and copying/pasting the track names to the second Mapsource window TRACKS tab. The second Mapsource TRACKS tab will now have the track names from your first and second track GPX files in it. So in the first window, open another track GPX file and repeat the copy/paste operation to the second Mapsource window. You are going to use that second window to accumulate all of the tracks. (Hit Ctrl-V or menu EDIT > Paste.) This actually pastes the tracks, not just the names.
Paste the track names into the TRACK tab. Switch to the other Mapsource window that does not have any files open. (You can use Ctrl-Click or Shift-Click or Ctrl-A or menu EDIT>Select All.) Select the track names in the TRACKS tab. In one window, you open one of the GPX track files so the track(s) show up in the TRACKS tab in Mapsource. open Mapsource twice so you have it in two different windows.
To do it with Mapsource, you would start with your current folder structure and launch two instances of Mapsource (e.g. But the user interface is very different from Basecamp. It's very simple to do in Mapsource which is also a free download from Garmin and will install easily if Basecamp is already installed. The user interface requires me to twist my brain too much in an odd direction. I haven't used Basecamp enough to answer this for Basecamp.
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