Thread: How to relocate Garmin maps to any disk on XP/Vista/W7

Originally Posted by putipu

To have a map in Mapsource you dont need to install it, you just need the gmap folder or its shortcut in C\ProgramData\Garmin\Maps\
This since all the latest Mapsource version. Installer is optional and if you want to have entries in registry

Yes but I mean instal in PC by copy Gmap or instal if it's .img

Originally Posted by putipu

....you just need the gmap folder or its shortcut in C\ProgramData\Garmin\Maps\
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and the path to place the shortcut in XP is

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Garmin\Maps

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@alamel:
to install?
well, nothing to 'install', just simply place (copy, move) .gmap where you like, and tell Mapsource and Basecamp that place with a shortcut.
for .img you use removable drive, real as well as virtual usb-drive, even virtual HD works - Basecamp finds them there.

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Originally Posted by fiat_lux

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for .img you use removable drive, real as well as virtual usb-drive, even virtual HD works - Mapsource and Basecamp finds them there. ........

Fully compiled *.img files usable by your device are not visible to MS, only BC and HomePort (for marine maps). Maybe typo, did you mean 'HomePort and BaseCamp finds them there'?

Originally Posted by Neil

Fully compiled *.img files usable by your device are not visible to MS, only BC and HomePort (for marine maps). Maybe typo, did you mean 'HomePort and BaseCamp finds them there'?

I think they have to be convert with GmapTool first

Originally Posted by alamel

I think they have to be convert with GmapTool first

Yes, but then they are no longer an image file are they. They become a 'reverse-engineered MS Version' with crippled search, useless to recompile back into a *img file.

Originally Posted by Neil

Yes, but then they are no longer an image file are they. They become a 'reverse-engineered MS Version' with crippled search, useless to recompile back into a *img file.

Yes but when I instal in PC is to be use by MS or BC not to put in unit . As Isaid earlier I always keep the original files in case

Originally Posted by Neil

Fully compiled *.img files usable by your device are not visible to MS, only BC and HomePort (for marine maps). Maybe typo, did you mean 'HomePort and BaseCamp finds them there'?

yes, thanks for correcting, my human error, sorry;

I edited that post.

I use mostly Basecamp, so I simply mixed two things in my mind: seeing usb-drives themselves, and seeing what's actually on them.
Mapsource that I found here can see even all my HDs, too.


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