I have started you a fresh thread on the topic.
Richard
I'm actually happy with my Garmin devices as far as their navigation operation is concerned, but I have just come across a rather annoying "feature" of the software... I use a fairly old Surface Pro laptop when travelling, with Basecamp and the latest maps installed on it. Whenever a new map update comes out I uninstall the previous version. The Surface has only a 250GB SSD and I try to keep clutter to a minimum.
Recently, however, I noticed that I only had about 4GB left on Drive C - WTF is going on I thought? Cleaned up the disk, uninstalled a few progs I seldom use, even took off MS Office to see if that would help, but all to little avail. A bit of Googling led me to a handy free prog called "Treesize Free" - a quick install of that revealed that the Garmin folder under Program Data was taking up 175GB !!!! WTF indeed
I've deleted the Garmin folder and will start again as if a new user - after I've re-installed Office etc. A quick check on my main PC reveals that Garmin is also occupying 175GB of this drive, but I hadn't noticed because it's so much bigger. If all goes well on the laptop I'll delete it here as well.
Apologies if this has been reported before but I reckon it's worth repeating and might save someone else a bit of hair pulling and head scratching...
Merry Christmas!
Richard
I'm actually happy with my Garmin devices as far as their navigation operation is concerned, but I have just come across a rather annoying "feature" of the software... I use a fairly old Surface Pro laptop when travelling, with Basecamp and the latest maps installed on it. Whenever a new map update comes out I uninstall the previous version. The Surface has only a 250GB SSD and I try to keep clutter to a minimum.
Recently, however, I noticed that I only had about 4GB left on Drive C - WTF is going on I thought? Cleaned up the disk, uninstalled a few progs I seldom use, even took off MS Office to see if that would help, but all to little avail. A bit of Googling led me to a handy free prog called "Treesize Free" - a quick install of that revealed that the Garmin folder under Program Data was taking up 175GB !!!! WTF indeed
I've deleted the Garmin folder and will start again as if a new user - after I've re-installed Office etc. A quick check on my main PC reveals that Garmin is also occupying 175GB of this drive, but I hadn't noticed because it's so much bigger. If all goes well on the laptop I'll delete it here as well.
Apologies if this has been reported before but I reckon it's worth repeating and might save someone else a bit of hair pulling and head scratching...
Merry Christmas!