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  • Garmin 800 map help please.

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    1. Have a Garmin 800 with City Navigator Europe maps.
      My account in Garmin tells me that those maps have 'expired'. (as of 2013)

    2. I have downloaded Garmin Express and synced to version '2.70', so I am 'up to date' but only did that yesterday.

    Why are my maps so shit?

    a) I just don't have them - see 1 above
    b) when i check my device 'CN europe NT 2012.40 is shown as enabled but the device is 'out of date'.

    I have tried to d/l 'openstreetmaps' but this keeps failing when I try to move to move to my SD card. I am using most recent Mac operating system

    I saw above the discussions with respect to how long these devices will be supported but @Mikey5000's 'touring' unit who I enjoyed a lovely ride with yesterday is clearly a better and more usable unit.

  • try to download direct to the garmin directory on your card.

    Thanks, this was what I was trying and the transfer would always fail about half-way through. The error was 'there is a file that is in use/or incompatible' and this would lead to the Garmin/card being disconnected from my computer without my interaction.

    Thanks very much for your link. I've just tried it and a similar error occurs.

    can’t complete the operation because some data in [file] can’t be read or written/error 36.

    I have another theory; in that I'm close to the limit on the SD card. There appears to be a little bit of capacity but I might try a larger capacity card just to see what happens.

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