when upgrading mapsource

[Deleted Member]

Just off the phone to Garmin tech. sorting a problem whereby I screwed up my registry when upgrading to mapsource city select6.
I (on good advice!) deleted previous version maps to save space otherwise every time you upgrade you have another set of european streets clogging up your hard drive (see view option, you can select previous versions even after upgrading) This is how I screwed registry.

The guy art Garmin told me to upgrade by re-installing the whole thing but only select the region of 'spain' on earlier versions (least detail) then when you get to the current version go for the full install.
In short you need at least one region installed to upgrade.

Simple really, why don't they tell you this when upgrading


alan

 

[adamski49]

That's ok in theory but if you have the space on your hard disk why not keep both. V5 takes up slighlty less space and the map tiles are more efficient so I use v5 where I need more areas mapped and v6 otherwise. Guess who has a GPS V

Adam

 

[John Armstrong]

Deja-vu

My advice came from Garmin to delete the previous versions to stop wasting disk space. Eventually after numerous attempts to have only v6 on they also came up with only load Spain from the original (v4) and then only load v6 missing out v5.

 

[Jon]

when you put tiles on to your V from mapsource, d'you select some from 5, then some from 6 and then download at the same time, or select & download separately?

 

[Deleted Member]

anybody want to buy a GarminV

I have spent one and a half hours trying to install/delete/re-install/talk to tech guys at Garmin/reinstal........

I cannot get it to load v4 with spain detail and loading v5 i get right thru the wizard process and select the areas I want to be asked to insert disc1 (yes, the one I am currently using) and cannot get past the'windows can't locate the disc' (probably because it is in the cd drive and windows didn't think to look there)

I feel that old windows rage starting to return, where I waste a day doing a simple task and get no where.

The simple fact that Garmin won't write software for a proper computer means the Garmin V will unfortunately have to go, followed shortly by the Dell laptop then all my frustrating ties with bill gates and his non-operating systems which are upgraded as often as washing powders with the same promises are at last a bad memory.

any offers... life's too short for windows.

rant over

 

[John Armstrong]

You're not the only one. Why do they have to use two disks? When I was loading v6 I kept on getting varied warning messages. Akk I can suggest is if in past experience you should be changing disks is do it, and if unsure just click continue. I'm running on XP professional and thought it might be a conflict between it and Mapsource.

 

[adamski49]

when you put tiles on to your V from mapsource, d'you select some from 5, then some from 6 and then download at the same time, or select & download separately?

You have to download at the same time so if you wanted to do that you'd select maps in v5 then switch to v6 and select the other maps. You can tell maps are still selected as the memory usage increases - this threw me at first as I hadn't deselcted v6 maps.

On the 60C I use v6 and WorldMap and so have to select two maps sets, but having said that I only ever download v5 or v6 to the V depending on requirements.

HTH

Adam

 

[DOWNUNDER]

I had much the same problem with WINDOWS 98. It was caused by the change in designation of the cd drive when I plugged in my external USB ZIP drive.

When I plug in my USB ZIP drive the CD ROM drive designation changes from J to K - the Mapsource was looking in J which was now the ZIP drive. K was now the CD rom - so it could not find Mapsource.

So if you have changed the configuration of your system and added any more drives since the initial installation of Mapsource then you may have the same problem.

 

[PanEuropean]

Hi Guys:

Yea, I have been through all that stuff myself - no fun.

Here are some tips, based on my experience:

1) The most recent cartography products (CN and CS Europe version 5 and 6) follow Microsoft's conventions concerning installer behaviour, and thus make an entry on the "Add-Remove Programs" list, which you can access through the Windows Control Panel. This means if you are upgrading from version 5 to version 6, do the upgrade and full install of 6 first, unlock it, make sure it works, then go to the Windows control panel, Add/Remove programs applet, and remove the previous version (version 5). Don't, however, delete early versions of the product which are not listed by version number in the Add/Remove Programs list (e.g. version 4) if those early versions were your first "full" purchase (meaning, if you bought the GPSR with version 4, then bought an upgrade to 5, and then bought another upgrade to 6).

If you have bought a new GPSR (e.g. a SP 26xx) and it came with version 6 in the box, then delete everything from your computer first if you wish, and do a fresh install of the version 6 cartography. Because the new cartography will have a "full" unlock (meaning, it's not an upgrade package), it does not look for the presence of any previous version installs.

2) I have no idea what causes the computer to sometimes get into that funny behaviour of asking for a CD that is already in it. But, I do know that if you completly ignore the dialog about the CD that has "abort, retry, ignore" as the choices, and just finish up the work as if it was not there, then the install completes just fine. Note that if you want to ignore this dialog, you have to give focus to (click on) the window you want to work with, which is, presumably, the MapSource installer window.

Be aware that you can get two different types of requests for CD changes - one from the MapSource application (this will specify the name of the CD, e.g. 'Insert City Navigator CD 2'), and one from the OS itself (the abort, retry, ignore one). The one you want to totally ignore (don't even click on one of the choices) is the notification from the OS.

Alan: Honestly, my heart bleeds asparagus juice for you - all that trouble with computers. Good on you to get rid of the whole lot of them and go back to paper maps and a #2 HB pencil.

If you had read and followed the directions for the upgrade, you would not have had any problems. You didn't follow the directions, you deleted your previous version first. This is not a smart thing to do with any upgrade, including software upgrades for the Mac OS. Normally, software upgrade packages (any OS - Wintel, OS2, Mac, Unix) look to make sure a previous version has been installed first, I think you should know that.

Finally - what the heck are you doing loading version 5? Isn't the current version 6?

PanEuropean

 

[Deleted Member]

Alan: Honestly, my heart bleeds asparagus juice for you - all that trouble with computers.

PanEuropean [/B][/QUOTE]

I would expect upgrade software to recognize a previously installed version and delete whatever can be deleted as a part of that process. And I was told by retailer to install 4/5/6 then delete maps from previous versions when it is up and running. Obviously bad info but I would still follow advice in the future as computers are not my thing. I find them useful but tediously problematic (until I bought an iMac). You obviously enjoy pouring over read me files and instruction books. Maybe because you are a vegetable?