Do simple file transfers work with a Mac?

Former Member 1 month ago

Coming from an edge 1030, which works easily with a Mac. Just plug it in and normal Finder operations work for file transfers.

is that not the case for the 1050? Is there an alternative approach that works well with a Mac?

thanks

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JudaV 4 days ago in reply to hoyhoy +3

I had the same experience initially. OpenMTP in recent Edge1050 firmware now works fine on Mac. I have a 2019 Intel Mac. No special download links necessary.
JungleJim 4 days ago +1

https://openmtp.ganeshrvel.com

Available both for apple silicon and intel macs.
hoyhoy 4 days ago in reply to JungleJim +1

Doesn't work on Intel. Also, a big thank you to the experts in Olathe for removing the hard-to-find download link (from Google's android archive) to the only app that transfers files on macOS.
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0 hoyhoy 4 days ago in reply to JungleJim

Doesn't work on intel macs for some reason...

0 JungleJim 4 days ago in reply to Former Member

Without 3rd party tools it won’t work. It’s up to Apple to provide proper support in macOS, nothing Garmin can do about that.

0 JungleJim 4 days ago in reply to hoyhoy

If OpenMTP doesn’t work for you on an Intel mac, post an issue on OpenMTP’s GitHub page at github.com/.../openmtp

0 hoyhoy 4 days ago in reply to JungleJim

I already did. https://github.com/ganeshrvel/openmtp/issues/389 Do you have any other ideas?

0 JungleJim 4 days ago in reply to hoyhoy

I see. But won’t OpenMTP work for any intel mac or just not for you?

As for alternatives, outside Android File Transfer and OpenMTP I do not really know of any easy to use open source alternatives.

Personally I use CommanderOne, but that is a paid app.

0 DeanWette 4 days ago in reply to hoyhoy

That github issue was resolved a while ago, although I don't quite know why it hasn't been closed. I was a commenter on it, and noted openmtp works now. I have used it to edit my startup.txt file.

0 hoyhoy 4 days ago in reply to DeanWette

I tried it after the fix. It still didn't work on intel macs. Google's old android app actually works better anyway. I just gave up on OpenMTP. It looked like baby's first user interface.

0 DeanWette 4 days ago in reply to hoyhoy

I see. And I see your comments there. I wonder if it fails for all Intel macs? The patch definitely fixed it for my M2 MacBook Air.

0 JudaV 4 days ago in reply to hoyhoy

I had the same experience initially. OpenMTP in recent Edge1050 firmware now works fine on Mac. I have a 2019 Intel Mac. No special download links necessary.

0 rwohl1 7 hours ago in reply to JudaV

Anyone know why garmin no longer supports usb mass storage? Isn’t that how the 1030 and 1040 work? That would give native support on Macs without the security risk of downloading 3rd party software.