I'm just trying to find out if anyone else has this problem as I can't find a way around it.
I connect my Garmin Driversmart 61 to my mac, the orange computer tower appears on the device screen (meaning it's recognised a connection) but it will not change to a grey tower and move on to connect properly to my macbook. Other devices connect okay so it isn't my macbook. Sometimes after 10 minutes it may decide to connect, other times it will decide to turn itself off and reconnect to the orange tower, but most of the time it just sits there like a limp lettuce doing nothing.
I have tried EVERY (and I mean EVERY) solution to connections, turning off (fully), resetting my macbook, unistalling/reinstalling software, changing the cable, changing the sequence of turning on and connecting. Basically every suggestion on every forum I can find ... and still that orange tower just stares at me! I wish my macbook was the orange tower ...
So has anyone else this problem AND SOLVED IT?
This Drivesmart has been the worst Garmin I've ever had - endless problems with it stopping navigating, suddenly deciding we are off road (even though I'm clearly driving on a road that has existed for over 50 years and is in the map). If it wasn't for the Basecamp software I'd be swapping manufacturers about now.