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This has me a bit stumped

Needing to update some maps and of course the memory isn't large enough on the Nav 5 so the maps need top go to the memory card that is and always has been in the device.

Garmin express can't find the card ???

So

I am using a mac

The card is 16GB and formatted to fat 32

It has music on it which plays and there is about 14GB of spare space on it !

Any ideas ???
 
I don't know why, but my Zumo wouldn't talk to my card until I removed a few mp3s I had on there.
Try it with a completely clean card. Might even be worth reformatting it.
 
My mac always seems to take ages to find it, maybe you need to give it a while longer, just a thought.
 
this seems to be a common problem of late, i cant comment about a fix as i use a pc, do you have a card reader and if so can you see the card using it. and if you can use that and instal maps to it.
 
I had the same problem on my 660 Rick (same device I think?). I eventually bought a top spec 32gb card and fitted that. Since then all's been good.

Andres
 
Outtomunch said:
I had the same problem on my 660 Rick (same device I think?). I eventually bought a top spec 32gb card and fitted that. Since then all's been good.

Andres
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That might be the solution although it is a sands so should be good enough as it has been in the past ( been in since i got the nav )
Every other device i own can find and read the card so why can't garmin express ??????
 
redrick said:
This has me a bit stumped

Needing to update some maps and of course the memory isn't large enough on the Nav 5 so the maps need top go to the memory card that is and always has been in the device.

Garmin express can't find the card ???

So

I am using a mac

The card is 16GB and formatted to fat 32

It has music on it which plays and there is about 14GB of spare space on it !

Any ideas ???
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Outtomunch said:
I had the same problem on my 660 Rick (same device I think?). I eventually bought a top spec 32gb card and fitted that. Since then all's been good.

Andres
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Different devices, fundamentally different in many areas, I'm afraid. Same problem though.


leedude03 said:
this seems to be a common problem of late, i cant comment about a fix as i use a pc, do you have a card reader and if so can you see the card using it. and if you can use that and instal maps to it.
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As above, this seems to be a problem for some users of late.

If it helps, which it probably doesn't....

I use a Mac, running BaseCamp. I have a Nav V, with a 16 GB card in it but with no music on it. Yesterday I sent OSM maps of the whole of Germany and chunk of the Benelux (something like 92 individual tiles and 2 gb of data) from BaseCamp to the SD card using Map Installer. It worked perfectly. BaseCamp / Map Installer sees the card (and everything on it) perfectly, each and every time. All my software is up to date.

As I type, I am sending the same OSM maps to a second Nav V, set up identically, again without a problem.

From what we have been told, the only real differences that I can see between the OP and my set-up are

(a) The difference in the card size; that shouldn't make a difference.

(b) He has music * on his card, I don't. Post 2 mentions music (or the removal of music) as a cause / cure.... Try that.

(c) He is doing something in Garmin Express, whilst I used Map Installer





* Music and comm's are the source of much angst on these GPS pages.... I am glad that I avoid both :beerjug:
 
Mac's have a habit of not seeing memory cards..


Are you running it of a reader plugged into a hub ??

Try plugging it into the mac direct (The reader that is)


If its direct card in, then your card could be getting old,

Plug it into a windows machine and see if it see it.


There are some utilities about than can restore cards that show incorrect sizes, and will get them to "show" up again

(usually comes about from trying to do linux installs, or OS updates for phones / tablets)

Mart
 
One idea.... Our resident hippy mentioned that he cured the problem by inserting a new SD card. That's a common enough cure for most things :D

The OP is using a Mac. I do not know how old his card is and if it has had 'stuff' removed from it but.... I have noticed that, when using a Mac, it might look as if the old 'stuff' has been removed but it's still there in a sort of 'ghost' form. The card need 'cleaning' properly' if you see what I mean. I wonder if it's clogged up with 'ghost' files, rendering it useless.

I am no IT whizz by any stretch of the imagination, so no doubt there are all sorts of tec-speak words to describe, 'stuff', "cleaning properly' and 'clogged up'. I just zap the card with all the Mac and Clean My Mac software I can click on, until I get the result i want.

PS From vague memory, when zapping 'stuff', I think it helped when I took the SD card out of the device and put it into a card reader. It's the only time I've removed the card since it went into my device well over a year ago, so I guess it was when I went zapping.
 
what i dont understand is the op said he can play music from the card, this would lead me to believe the card is not at fault, unless something has happened to the card in between time. as i said if you have a card reader try that if it works you can instal the maps directly to it while in the reader from within basecamp.
 
leedude03 said:
what i dont understand is the op said he can play music from the card, this would lead me to believe the card is not at fault, unless something has happened to the card in between time.......
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The other threads on a similar problem, were also able to play music from the card but were unable to add to it. From memory, the device saw the card but the computer didn't.

Here's similar thread I trawled up: http://www.ukgser.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-431680.html
 
Santa-2512 said:
Mac's have a habit of not seeing memory cards..


Are you running it of a reader plugged into a hub ??

Try plugging it into the mac direct (The reader that is)


If its direct card in, then your card could be getting old,

Plug it into a windows machine and see if it see it.


There are some utilities about than can restore cards that show incorrect sizes, and will get them to "show" up again

(usually comes about from trying to do linux installs, or OS updates for phones / tablets)

Mart
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I must be one of the lucky ones no SD card /Mac issues using various different brands for many years. It's Garmin express that can't see it not the Mac.
 
I know sd cards can go faulty and indeed do, but this does seem strange to me, in this comparatively small group of people. i would presume that those who have had succsess with replacing the card, have then thrown the presumed faulty card away without any more testing to see if it is indeed faulty. i still think that some of these presumed to be faulty cards, are not faulty and the problem lies elsewhere. if anyone has one of these presumed faulty cards maybe they can test it using a onboard card reader in their macbook or similar.
 
leedude03 said:
I know sd cards can go faulty and indeed do, but this does seem strange to me, in this comparatively small group of people.
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I agree with you.

iand46 said:
I must be one of the lucky ones no SD card /Mac issues using various different brands for many years. It's Garmin express that can't see it not the Mac.
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I am with you on this one, too :thumb2

The only time I have ever had a problem was when I thought I had removed 'stuff' - being maps - from a card but I (or my Mac or my Nav V) hadn't done it properly, the small card being full of 'ghost' stuff. Other than that, all has been as happy as a pig in.....
 
Quote iand46 (I must be one of the lucky ones no SD card /Mac issues using various different brands for many years. It's Garmin express that can't see it not the Mac.) so all this talk about my Mac wont see the sd card is actually not correct, it is infact the garmin express software that can not see the card, and you can indeed see the card and contents using the file browser within Mac. is this correct.
 
Rghto chaps

It seems that a new card (UHS-1 as opposed to the class 10 that was in it ) has sorted the problem.

I still find it bizare that my mac could find and read the card as could my windows PC but Garmin express could not and neither would mapinstall

Any way i am now sorted but it is an expensive way of curing problems that did not otherwise exist except in Garmin world
 
leedude03 said:
Quote iand46 (I must be one of the lucky ones no SD card /Mac issues using various different brands for many years. It's Garmin express that can't see it not the Mac.) so all this talk about my Mac wont see the sd card is actually not correct, it is infact the garmin express software that can not see the card, and you can indeed see the card and contents using the file browser within Mac. is this correct.
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My Mac can certainly see the SD card in my Nav V within BaseCamp and outside of BaseCamp..

My Mac can write to it, either through drag and drop or by transfer, inside and outside of BaseCamp

It can also receive data from the SD card the same way, inside and outside of BaseCamp
 
redrick said:
Rghto chaps

It seems that a new card (UHS-1 as opposed to the class 10 that was in it ) has sorted the problem.

I still find it bizare that my mac could find and read the card as could my windows PC but Garmin express could not and neither would mapinstall

Any way i am now sorted but it is an expensive way of curing problems that did not otherwise exist except in Garmin world
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So, assuming nothing else changed, the only thing that altered was the switching of a card for a new one. Assuming you still have the old card and haven't tampered with it in anyway it would be interesting to see if someone else with a Mac could look to see if their Mac can see it.
 
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