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Moving the Garmin Map To Another Location
Installing Garmin Maps To Another
Location/Partition/Drive
Your Situation:
By default Garmin Express will install maps in your C: partition at this
location.
So if you eyeballed the install you would
see this:
C:/ProgramData/Garmin/Maps/mapname.gmap
As
well Garmin claims that all NEW map updates can be installed elsewhere and
that Garmin Express gives you that option.
You cannot find that option OR it fails,
meaning, you specified another location but it installed the new map in the
C:/ partition anyway.
You would like to MOVE the map to a
different location and have BaseCamp find it at that new location so that when
BaseCamp is loaded and you go to the MAPS top line navigation and hit it you
see your new map and can choose it.
How To Install Elsewhere:
The key bit
of trickery here is to make use of a “shortcut”.
We will assume you are using a Windows
based computer.
A “shortcut” is an icon or text string
that allows you to open a file or program.
In this case we know that BaseCamp is
going to be “looking” to the C: partition for a map.
We are going to put a shortcut in the C:
partition that “points” to a different map location.
BaseCamp will not care and will load the
map.
So we have four steps:
-- Decide
where you want the map.
Create the relevant folder:
For example: D:/GARMIN/maps
[create whatever location name you want]
-- Go to
the C: partition and find your current map.
Copy it and then paste it to the new
location.
You end up with something like this:
D:/GARMIN/maps/City_Navigator_North_America_NT_2050_10.gmap
-- Delete
it from the C: location and FEAR NOT you can always copy the map where it
now resides and paste it back into C:
or just tell Garmin Express to reinstall
it.
-- Create a
short cut and place that shortcut in the same C:/ location Garmin Express used. So the shortcut HAS TO BE in the original
C: folder.
To use our example, you are creating the
shortcut here:
C:/ProgramData/Garmin/Maps
as that folder contained the map you just
moved and that is where BaseCamp expects to find the map you just moved.
Creating The Shortcut
Windows
will create the shortcut for you.
Using Windows Explorer, go to the folder
that originally held your map.
RIGHT CLICK within that folder.
Find the NEW option.
Click that.
Find “Shortcut” on the list that appears
after you click NEW.
Click “shortcut”.
Lo and Behold you are invited to browse
to the relevant file.
Do that.
Browse to and select the map.
You will be invited to name the shortcut.
GIVE THE SHORTCUT THE NAME OF THE MAP.
So in the short term you can give it whatever
name you want.
But find the map, right click it, select
properties and then copy the name of the map exactly.
Go back to the shortcut and rename it.
[right click it and rename it and paste the map name in the rename box].
When done,
right click the shortcut again and click PROPERTIES and then see what in fact the
shortcut is “pointing to”.
If you messed up you may find that the
shortcut is pointing ONLY TO THE FOLDER.
So “properties” shows you something like
D:/garmin/maps
and that’s it.
OK, tack on the name of the map.
Change it so that properties includes the
full path meaning the drive, folder, and map name. So the short cut points to, for example,
D:/GARMIN/maps/City_Navigator_North_America_NT_2050_10.gmap
Load up
BaseCamp and toggle the top line MAPS navigation and choose your map.
It should be there as a choice.