Multiple City Navigator Europe NT maps with BaseCamp?

Former Member over 12 years ago

I have City Navigator Europe NT installed on BaseCamp for my 1490T (with Lifetime Updates), but have just bought City Navigator Europe NT on dvd for my new Oregon 650. I now have two identically named maps in the drop down list on BaseCamp; one of which is for the 1490T and the other for the Oregon 650 - but which is which?
If I transfer files from the wrong map to my device, it won't unlock, but yet BaseCamp won't allow me to rename the maps so that I can tell them apart. Surely I don't have to transfer and hope each time?

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Thanks for all the advice. I've deleted the map for the 1490T from BaseCamp using MapManager (sorry, I can't remember the location). It now just appears when I plug the 1490T in!
I've now just got the City Nav for the Oregon in my BaseCamp drop down list (which is the same, latest 2013.41 version that exists on the 1490T). I can now safely transfer maps from BaseCamp to the Oregon knowing that they are unlocked for this device. I can also plot routes etc on this map on BaseCamp knowing that I can copy the waypoints etc to the 1490T - plus it freed up 3.6Gb!
Thanks again everyone!

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

My old Topos are indeed found in ~Library/App Support/Garmin/Maps, not in the HD's Library folder.

Well you learn something new every day. :D

If you install the map in /Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Garmin/Maps/ then it will be available to all user accounts on the Mac, not just you. Open MapManager and click on one of the installed maps. Now choose "Share map with all users". It will ask for your admin password and then move the map to /Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Garmin/Maps/

Note that after you have done this, MapManager will not allow you to move the map back to your personal library however. Never noticed that before. So maybe DRTBYK intentionally did this, or maybe older versions of MapManager did this by default, or maybe he is correct that certain Garmin products trigger this action automatically?

-Boyd

0 azdrmn over 12 years ago

If you install the map in /Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Garmin/Maps/ then it will be available to all user accounts on the Mac, not just you. Open MapManager and click on one of the installed maps. Now choose "Share map with all users". It will ask for your admin password and then move the map to /Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Garmin/Maps/

Note that after you have done this, MapManager will not allow you to move the map back to your personal library however. Never noticed that before. So maybe DRTBYK intentionally did this, or maybe older versions of MapManager did this by default, or maybe he is correct that certain Garmin products trigger this action automatically?

-Boyd

Maybe a little of all three. The older version of MapManager never prompted for admin password, so it alway placed them in ~/Library. MapManager 3.0.1 has the ability to do either and migrate older ones to /Library on user command. RMU/LMU used to place them in ~/Library, but I have to admit that I'm not sure what Express does. Sorry for the inconsistency, but if you don't have multiple users accounts that need access to them, there is no difference.