iand46
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Is there an "About" tab on the toolbar?
Basecamp 4.3.3 update Borked
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iand46
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By default the software checks for updates automatically but to check manually click BaseCamp > check for updates.
Bumpkin
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There's 'About Garmin Basecamp' in the help menu but this just brings up a dialogue with some version details, a button for 'copyright info', 'system info' and 'close'. I reckon, as iand46 infers, that it will just pop up an alert when a new version is available.
I don't see that option in 4.3.3
iand46
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Sorry for that I use a Mac & didn't think the toolbars would be so different but they clearly are. Try a search with the BaseCamp help tab
It is there: just below (2 or 3 items from memory) below the "About base camp" button.
iand46
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Guess this is on a Mac with BaseCamp downloaded from the Garmin website & not the App store.
Yes, downloaded from Garmin
Click the "Basecamp" menu item at the top of the screen and "Check for updates" is the 4th item down.
I cannot imagine why there would be two unique versions of Basecamp depending on where you downloaded it from though.
But, that said, stranger things have happened!!
BTW, I am running 3.2.4 and if I ask it to check for updates, it says that I am up to date. Have Garmin pulled the 3.3.1 and 3.3.3 updates because they were causing so many problems?
Click the "Basecamp" menu item at the top of the screen and "Check for updates" is the 4th item down.
I cannot imagine why there would be two unique versions of Basecamp depending on where you downloaded it from though.
But, that said, stranger things have happened!!
BTW, I am running 3.2.4 and if I ask it to check for updates, it says that I am up to date. Have Garmin pulled the 3.3.1 and 3.3.3 updates because they were causing so many problems?
iand46
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The updated Mac version of BaseCamp I use from the Mac App store is 4.3.1 which was released 16th May 2014......https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/garmin-basecamp/id411052274?mt=12
You have control of how it carries out updates on this version through the Macs own settings.
The Mac version available online is 4.3.3 released 4th June 2014........http://download.cnet.com/Garmin-BaseCamp/3000-31713_4-75705192.html The Garmin site does not quote the version no (suspect same)
IainMac
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On the pc 4.3.3 version there is no Basecamp toolbar button or check for updates button on the topmenu (if basecamp was meant to infer open the app)
The search /help function results within 4.3.3 is also different /out of step with 4.3.3 in that it also says 1.Click BaseCamp > Check for Updates
and to set for auto updates it says 1.Click BaseCamp > Preferences > Software Update.
there is no basecamp button or pull down menu with preferences listed so all a bit odd or another example of half cocked garmin software releases being beta tested by the public.
Version 4.3.3 seems to have been pulled by Garmin. If you go to the website and the page(s) for Mac software http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4449
It only offers 4.3.1, which is the version that failed for me (corrupted datafile).
It only offers 4.3.1, which is the version that failed for me (corrupted datafile).
iand46
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Why not remove it & download it from the App store?
Yes I could, but there must be a reason why Garminare only offering 4.3.1 on their own website. And it was 4.3.1 that I downloaded from the App store that bombed for me!!
I will hang on a bit I think
I will hang on a bit I think
Except for me :-( Basecamp starts to initialise and then disappears. Asked what to do on the Garmin Forum, nad if I get a reply I'll post it here.
And there was me thinking Garmin had started to get their act together.
