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Where the map file version is stored?

Former Member over 10 years ago

I have Garmin Express installed on two computers, an iMac and a MacBook.

If I start Express on the iMac, he knows that I have the latest map version installed on my Dēzl; if I start Express on the MacBook, the program does not know that the latest map version is installed and tells me that a new version is available.

I tried to rsync ~/Library/Application Support/Garmin/ between the two computers, without success. Where the version of the installed map is stored on the iMac, and, if possible, on what file is stored the info about optional software (voices, vehicles, ...) installed -- so that I may copy these informations from the iMac to the MacBook?

Thank you in advance, M.

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

What version of GE? Versions 3.x and below/4.x do things differently.

I use Windows and GE 4.x stores this data in a number of XML files under

C:\ProgramData\Garmin\CoreService

Although XML files are human readable it is not easy to easily identify the information in the files. That said I do as you want and copy the whole CoreService folder between machines (VM's in my case) to keep them in sync.

Note: GE must be closed and all services stopped before you can successful copy the folder.

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

What version of GE? Versions 3.x and below/4.x do things differently.

4.0.11.0

I use Windows and GE 4.x stores this data in a number of XML files under

C:\ProgramData\Garmin\CoreService

Although XML files are human readable it is not easy to easily identify the information in the files. That said I do as you want and copy the whole CoreService folder between machines (VM's in my case) to keep them in sync.

Note: GE must be closed and all services stopped before you can successful copy the folder.

I have several .xml files under ~/Library/Application Support/Garmin/ ; but I could not identify the relevant ones. I own two Garmin devices, and since every one can host a different map version, I think the relevant files should live under the device directories, named RegisteredDevices/3837462738 and RegisteredDevices/3882548757: and there are only two, in these directories, both called GarminDevice.xml. grepping that file for sequences like 'map' (case insensitive) or '2015' (my maps are 2015.40) I did not find any match. And copying (as I said) all the file tree under ~/Library/Application Support/Garmin/ from one computer to another (thus copying these files also) (and, yes, with GE closed and services stopped) did not work. So, I am afraid that the relevant data are not in these files... Could some Garmin software expert comment on that?

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

...I think the relevant files should live under the device directories...

Under Windows GE 3.2.x and below it used to work that way. As I said 4.x works differently. I can't say for a Mac.

PS: GE 3.2.x and below used to basically used to cache (have a copy of) the device GarminDevice.xml file. I think that could cause issues so it was changed in 4.x. From what I've seen the data is stored very differently.

PPS: Here are the Windows filenames.

C:\ProgramData\Garmin\CoreService


 3/03/2015   9:48         <DIR>    Devices
 3/03/2015   9:41         <DIR>    LegacyProxy
 3/03/2015   9:41         <DIR>    Passkeys
 3/26/2015   8:43             431  configuration_settings.xml
 3/26/2015   8:43         243,584  devices_list.xml
 3/26/2015   8:43          15,227  device_data_store.xml
 3/26/2015   8:36           5,341  download_settings.xml
 3/26/2015   8:43           6,736  preloaded_maps.xml

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

Hmmm... maybe a permission problem? I tried again to rsync between computers, this time as the system administrator, and now it works. So, problem solved... I don't understand what happened but, if it works, it works. Thank you, STUARTMW, for your interest and your help.