michaelb05

I don't know if I have an answer to your problem, it sounds like the map shows up in MapInstall and seem to install properly. But I do wonder about your varying descriptions of how much space is remaining available on the card. It makes me wonder why that is and whether or not there are other files on the card, invisible or in the trash. If you put the card in a card reader on your mac, what does it tell you under get info? It sounds like a 4 gb card. If empty, really, you should have lots of avail space (3.68 shows up as the capacity of my card). Are you trying to install to the card or the garmin device? If the card has "nothing" on it, and you want it just to store these maps, and you are only selecting 54.1 MB of files, you have plenty of room avail. I would be inclined to reformat the card (MS-DOS FAT32), or at least "empty trash" to make sure the card shows up as completely free. Once Mapinstall has installed the maps on the card, they should be visible as a single file called gmapsupp.img (under the subdirectory Garmin I think) when you look at the card in the Finder. I also had to delete flip for mac to get the send to gps communicator plug in to work for safari 4 (but that is a separate Q then getting the maps to install).

I am not sure what MapManager does or what it is for, but before you can install maps on the GPSr using a mac, you need to open them in MapManager and then "install" them, except installing them here means they then show up as maps in the application MapInstall, which is similar to Mapsource and is then used to view, select, and install the maps on the GPSr. I can't remember now, but they end up with a .gmapi extension, which may be after MapManager does its thing. From the two files I have converted now (ibycus topo canada and new england topo part 1) which could only be found in windows version, Garmins MapConverter worked just fine. I downloaded the windows installer for the maps, installed them under windows, opened and converted them in MapConverter, and allowed MapConverter to compress it to a .tgz file. The .tgz archive file can then be copied over and expanded on the mac, processed through MapManager, and then installed using MapInstall. So if someone (MtnHermit?) is willing to convert ibycus topo windows version and then put the compressed .tgz file up for a mac download, at least until ibycus comes back online, that would help mac users get access to these files. This is a huge 3 gb file, so it is not easy to host, download or copy.

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Having just bought a vista hcx (upgrade from my old geko), I spent the last week trying to figure this out. I was able to download the windows version, copy it to my junk pc running xp, then use Garmin's mapconverter software to export the windows version to a compressed version for the mac, then copied that back to my mac, and was able to install them on my mac using Mapinstall. I downloaded the windows version using bittorrent, which is not anything I know anything about. I could look to see if I could seed the mac version back up, but I would rather not do that so if Oz or JDawg or anyone else has access to a windows machine, you could do this conversion too from the windows version you already have and then use it or host it that way.

I just bought a new vista hcx, and even though I had read this thread I couldn't resist the temptation to upgrade the firmware. I wanted to test maps over 2 gb, since loading all the free maps for the USA, NE, and Canada were going to put me over 2 gb. In any case, I also have the beeping on shutdown. Removing the 4 gb card stops that. I was able to downgrade to 2.80 and that seems to be working with the card and the maps. Bummer.