Suggestion to Garmin about My Collection

Former Member over 13 years ago

Dear Garmin developers
For some time I have stored all my files from MapSource in my Dropbox-account. That way I can open and work with them from any computer.
As far as I see this is not possible with BaseCamp. If this is possible, can you please explain how to do this. If not, can we expect this function in a future upgrade?
Kind regards
Joachim Seehusen.

0 PSEABOLT over 13 years ago

I use DropBox with BaseCamp
https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?t=19561

Here is the instructions
https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?t=10869&highlight=dropbox

0 PSEABOLT over 13 years ago

DropBox and BaseCamp has worked well for 5 or 6 updates and it is really easy for the one time setup if you have the terminal commands listed below. However it appears to me that iPhoto has a better solution. If you hold down the option key iPhoto allows you to select a library in any folder. Once you select the library, iPhoto returns to this folder each time it is opened unless you hold the option key down again. If BaseCamp had this option, you could move your BaseCamp folder containing your geodata to dropbox, how down the option key and select the dropbox BaseCamp folder and be done. Now that iCloud is free, the Developers may be considering doing something with iCloud. DropBox is the perfect solution for be because I have access offline.

Note: Read Azbithead instructions, the following is just and example of the terminal part.
https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?t=10869&highlight=dropbox
My home directory is pseabolt and my dropbox is in my home directory. Below it the terminal output. I added the numbers for line identification.

1. MBPro-7:~ pseabolt$ cd ~pseabolt/Library/Application\ Support/Garmin
2. MBPro-7:Garmin pseabolt$ ln -s ~pseabolt/Dropbox/BaseCamp
3. MBPro-7:Garmin pseabolt$

Line 1 changes directory to the garmin directory.