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Google Drive has taken over my Garmin Folder

steveal over 3 years ago

I bought a new Edge 530 to replace my 500, a couple of days ago.

Today, I see that my (free) Google Drive is almost full due to a large Garmin folder.

Did I choose that folder location? I don't remember doing it.

Can I move the folder to my desktop PC?

Is the folder necessary?

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steveal over 3 years ago in reply to Scillonian +1 verified

Thanks.

I stumbled on a well-hidden tick box on the Google Drive preferences page on my PC.

It was backing up a 'GARMIN' folder. This in turn was activated whenever I connected my Edge 530 to my PC. I…

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0 SUSSAMB over 3 years ago

Who knows, what is in it?

0 TonyStewart over 3 years ago

200 MB of multilingual junk

0 SUSSAMB over 3 years ago in reply to TonyStewart

I'm not sure what your comment refers to as you're not the OP?

0 TonyStewart over 3 years ago in reply to SUSSAMB

That’s the latest folder size and almost half are unneeded other language compressed files

0 SUSSAMB over 3 years ago in reply to TonyStewart

Thanks but it doesn't help the OP. Hopefully he'll respond shortly.

0 TonyStewart over 3 years ago in reply to SUSSAMB

He does not need to store it there, so I am sure he can delete it. I hope this correlates with his insight

0 steveal over 3 years ago in reply to SUSSAMB

It is under Computers/USB & External Devices/GARMIN/Garmin

One file, D6017040B.img, is 3 GB in size.

another file, gmapprog.img is shown on my PC as being unable to sync due to lack of space on Drive

Does this help?

0 steveal over 3 years ago in reply to steveal

But why is the entire GARMIN folder attached to Google Drive, rather than on my PC hard drive?

0 TonyStewart over 3 years ago in reply to steveal

Garmin Cycle Map EU, South West,2020.10 Is that file.. move it and using express.exe , point to that folder in future.. Perhaps your download folder or the Program files x86\Garmin ....

0 TonyStewart over 3 years ago in reply to steveal

If you mean sync to GPS drive space, you may need to add a flash mem card