Where are data files stored?

In Windows, I could find all of the BaseCamp data files and delete unneeded ones (like the hundreds of partial track segments that got stuck there) prior to making a database backup. This GREATLY reduces the size of a backup. In fact, my "clean" backup, without tracks/waypoints, is less than 1K in size.
I'm trying to find all of those files in BaseCamp on my new MacBook Pro. Even when I turn on "show hidden files" I can't see where they are...can anyone help me with this?
Along those same lines, I can see the Map directory containing the North America street maps, but it doesn't show the 24K Topo map set I also have on there. Where's that?
Thanx/Jerry

0 JaVaWa over 12 years ago

The data and the maps can be found under {user}/Library/Application Support/Garmin

Apple has hidden the user’s Library folder. To access it, in the Finder go to the ‘Go’ menu and hold down the Option (Alt) key; the Library folder will appear as a choice.

0 adcockj over 12 years ago

Thank you very much, Javawa...As you can tell, I'm a new Mac user. The ~/Garmin/Basecamp/DataBase/4.0 folder has a bunch of stuff that gets included when you do a backup, which I do often (so I can have a number of regionally-based track sets with separate waypoints, etc). The one thing that seems completely unnecessary, unless they're important for some reason I haven't figured out, are the partial track segments...they just keep building and building and make the backup much larger than it needs to be.
Thanx again.

0 daknudsen over 12 years ago

Thank you very much, Javawa...As you can tell, I'm a new Mac user. The ~/Garmin/Basecamp/DataBase/4.0 folder has a bunch of stuff that gets included when you do a backup, which I do often (so I can have a number of regionally-based track sets with separate waypoints, etc). The one thing that seems completely unnecessary, unless they're important for some reason I haven't figured out, are the partial track segments...they just keep building and building and make the backup much larger than it needs to be.
Thanx again.

Yeah, I've got 12,438 of those files! 875 of them have the exact same timestamp. What's up with that? And another 875 two minutes later. And another 870 one minute after that... Now, I still have around 2/3 of my HD space, no problem there. But this wanton littering of files seems more a Windoze PC thing...