i tunes and Mapsource..

[wully]

I've bought myself a netbook for taking to work and have been trying to get all my itunes and mapsource copied onto the new machine without success

~Is there any easy way for a computer numpty to do this?

 

[GSTourer]

Could you not copy the necessary files to a memory stick (pretty cheap now) even for the larger capacity ones. Then plug into the USB port on your netbook and download from there. Other than that do you know anyone who has a portable disc drive and you could burn a DVD of the aforementioned files and then use the disc drive to copy across.

I have just purchased a Samsung NC10 Netbook (am using it to post this) I needed Mapsource and other programmes put on it. I had original discs and used a disc drive from work to do it. I am pretty sure the memory stick option will work though.

Good luck

Ian

 

[vireo]

I've bought myself a netbook for taking to work and have been trying to get all my itunes and mapsource copied onto the new machine without success

~Is there any easy way for a computer numpty to do this?

Mapsource is available as a download from Garmin..........here. http://www8.garmin.com/support/mappingsw.jsp



V

 

[digga]

usb cable to link the two together?

 

[LiquidLAN]

What exactly are you having problems with? What have you tried to do so far? What do you have available to you to help you actually move the data?

 

[Blackal]

I think Mapsource requires a fairly limiting entry in the registry, so may not work from a USB hard disk. It might make a difference if installed on a Cruzer memory stick, though (the one that accepts applications) - I think there could be a difference.

Al

 

[GSTourer]

Well done chaps...far more computer knowledge than i have attempting to assist with the prob.

Ian

 

[Redboots]

Mapsource on a chip

I did it a few weeks ago to test installing it in an Asus eee. Dive letters in the text are of course variable. If yours is not the small SD memory version of a netbook, it matters not, in principal it s the same.

I just installed XP on a clean laptop. No updates and no fixpacks. That's 1.62 gigs. That will include the page, (swap), file as that is allocated at startup. My page file is nearly 400 megs (default). The page file is also set to grow, dynamically, as Windows starts more programmes, Mapsource(?) so you can see that it eats disc space.

The Mapsource installation to the 4gig pen drive on E: takes about 1.83 gigs.
Mapsource installs another 55 meg into the \Garmin directory on the C: drive.

The Mapsource install would seem to le looking for the primary allocation to the default install on C:. The reason you are offered no other choices is because default install criterion cannot be met.

You need to pare down what's on the C:, enough to get that initial allocation - even though you wont use it... 'puters eh.


What to do?

At Control Panel > System > Advanced, click Settings in the “Performance” Section. On the Advanced page of the result, the current total physical size of all page files that may be in existence is shown. Make a note of these sizes so that you can restore them later.

Change the "Initial Size" to 100 megs and the Max Size" to 500megs. Click Change to make settings for the Virtual memory operation.
Click OK and reboot the system.

Try the install to the memory stick again.
It might be a little slow.
You can restore the swapfile sizes after the install if you think performance is suffering.

AFTER you have installed Mapsource to the chip, copy the contents of C:\Garmin to the x:\Garmin directory on the memory stick.
Use regedit to change ALL the entries in the registry for C:\Garmin to x:\Garmin, where x: is your chip.

Personally, I would allocate the memory stick a permanent drive letter like Z: so that it never moves. If you don't do that you must always plug the chip in in the same order... ie. at startup. If you plug another chip or device in before the "Mapsource" chip, the letter if the drive will be different to that specified in the registry.

Next, point the Mapsource icon on the desktop or startup list to the new drive letter.

Once you are happy that it runs OK, shutdown Mapsource and delete the Garmin directory on C:

Should work AOK

John

 

[wully]

hmmmmm...

Being hard of thinking when it comes to computers won't be doing me any favours..

What I've tried to do so far is instal mapsource onto a 250 gig WD memory drive but from the lappy already running mapsource.. maybe that's why I didn't get an option to instl it again..

I'm at work now with only the wee Advent netbook but I'll try again when i get home.

Expect a post saying 'I've fecked mah netbook' sometime soon....

 

[Redboots]

I'm at work now with only the wee Advent netbook but I'll try again when i get home.
.

What type of netbook is it and does it have a hard drive or chip storage?
Have you already tried to install it on the netbook?
How big is your C drive/partition.

John

 

[Redboots]

Sorry, just re-read your first post and you just want to COPY the stuff from one machine to another...

Not that difficult in itself, but I think someone has already said you will have to copy/edit the registry entry's on the new machine. That, you can feck up big time

You can just install the two apps on the new machine and then copy data over for iTunes and tell it where all the stuff is again, but the maps for Mapsource are best re-installed into the new Mapsource... it don't take that long and if you are not to hot with the registry vagaries, its the best way.

John

 

[wully]

Wully two thumbs is going no where near the registry- not that I'd have a feckin clue where to find it- is it behind the battery

As for the three questions you asked before..

1. It's an Advent and it's black, feck knows x 2

2.No, no DVD drive but I might try downloading mapsource on new years day if I get time.

3.I think it's 130 gigs

(got yer work cut out here...)

 

[LiquidLAN]

If I understand you right, you've got two laptops, and one external drive that you can plug into either laptop... correct?

you can use the drive to copy your music and other data files, but any programs you install and locate on the drive on one PC will not be seen on the other PC when you move the drive over... well they will, but only as data files, the other PC will not see them as things it has installed because you never installed them on the second PC/Laptop

Does that make sense? think of it like giving a workbook belonging to a Degree level maths bod to an A Level Student... they could read the book but wouldnt understand the context as they've not learnt (had installed) the relevent understanding

 

[wully]

Right, I'll do the easy thing and find someone out here who can sort it out for me I'm obviously too stoopid for computers.

Thanks for the suggestions.