birdseye still growing on C drive and taking soo long to be able to use on mSD

Former Member over 10 years ago

Every time I connect my montana which has a mSD card inside, which itself has BE images on it.. the PC will take about 1 hour doing something while reading the contents of the mSD card. during which time I cannot do anything with the contents of the mSD..

the PC must be storing the BE images on the C drive "again".. because along with the long wait also I lose another 10-15GB of space on my C drive whenever I connect it.

"THIS IS RIDICULOUS"... I put a case here on this forum in 2012 (username seedee) when it first started to annoy me.. no one answered, now it is beyond a joke.. Hello are you listening GARMIN...????

How can I delete some images and regain my C drive space..? which is basically now being eaten up by BE and wasted.. it would not be so bad if the image quality was good, but the areas which I downloaded (empty quarter desert) are rubbish..

C:\Users\CDADMIN\AppData\Roaming\Garmin\BaseCamp\JnxFiles is more than 200GB
C:\Users\CDADMIN\AppData\Local\Garmin\BaseCamp\TileCache is over 40GB
C:\Users\CDADMIN\AppData\Local\Garmin\BaseCamp\DeviceCache is over 40GB

what sort of software is this..? you can not move the BE files, you can not save them in a different directory at installation...

this is just not good enough..
CD

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

Basecamp won't copy BE files onto your hard drive AFAIK.

Actually it does. I used to experience the issue being discussed. What's even worse is that it does it per Windows user account so you can end up having many copies.

My solution won't work for many. I don't connect my actual devices to use BC (or MapSource). Instead I used "clone devices" (Google it) and manually transfer files between those and my actual units. What I did, on my clones, was rename the Birdseye folder. That stopped BC from copying the JNX files to its database(s) on HD.

0 SUSSAMB over 10 years ago

Actually it does.

Yes, so Red90Rover said. I stand corrected, clearly AFAIK was correct but the comment was wrong :)

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

wow that sounds a bit techie for me.. but anymore pointers on how..?

Surely if Garmin want to 'sell' BE they would be better fixing this issue.

0 SUSSAMB over 10 years ago

Well they don't 'sell' it ... its free. But as I said, let's see what the developers say ... I can't believe its intended to work that way.

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

I can't believe its intended to work that way.

I can :)

BC (and GE) cache stuff on devices in their databases. It's the way they work. It was a design decision made by the developers. Take a look in

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Garmin\BaseCamp\DeviceCache

Caching has both advantages and disadvantages. This thread illustrates one of the disadvantages.

0 SUSSAMB over 10 years ago

Caching is fine, it's the fact (or so it appears) that it caches Birdseye data every time according to seedee, so adding 10Gb every time he connects his GPS. Once would be OK, every time isn't.

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

...it's the fact (or so it appears) that it caches Birdseye data every time according to seedee...

That wasn't my experience. I found it only caches (copies JNX files) once but compares/updates it all the time.

FYI when you use BC to download Birdseye imagery from Garmin it stores the JNX files in

<Database location>\Jnxfiles

When it caches the device they're also copied to the folder I gave above. 2x copies of the same files. If you have multiple user accounts and large amounts of Birdseye imagery it's even more.

0 SUSSAMB over 10 years ago

That wasn't my experience. I found it only caches (copies JNX files) once ...

That I would now expect, but unless I misunderstand seedee he's saying he loses 10Gb or so every time he connects his device ... so I'm now more confused than ever. You say it doesn't, he implies it does, I didn't think (but do now) it did either :)

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

Well as I said it caches per-user account. Perhaps seedee is logging into another account :confused:

My annoyance wasn't with caching as such but I didn't want 2x # of user accounts of 2.2GB of Birdseye imagery on my HD's. I already had it backed up to multiple places. Once BC added the feature to configure the database location I had one, and only one, Jnxfiles folder containing 2.2GB of jnx files. I stopped the device caching as per my earlier post. Problem solved (for me) :)

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

Stuartmw
I have only one user account on my PC and as shown in the screenshots in my earlier post.. I connected three times that day and BC copied all BE contents to the C drive three times.. the BE files copied have the same filenames as the BE images on the mSD. and each time it takes about an hour to copy them...

Sussamb
I had to pay for my BE, how is it "free"