gabbrogeek

Many thanks to the two people who replied to my query. Your help paid off and I am now viewing the Ibycus maps on Roadtrip. I ended up downloading a program from Garmin that converts pc files to mac. That opened the Ibycus folder and displayed the map files. Next I downloaded Roadtrip and discovered Ibycus available on the drop down menu. After some time the maps began to display themselves and I was relieved to see that their detail had made all the effort worthwhile. They are far superior to the maps on the Canadian government website, and have greater detail than the BC government issue paper maps. In regard to my printer problems, Apple is sending me a new 10.4 install disc as my original disc wasn't up for the job of installing itself over a newer upgrade. When that comes I'll see if I can print maps from Roadtrip. If not I'll have to get a GPS and load it with the Ibycus files. I think buying paper copies of maps is a good idea and will do that for the areas I go hiking in. In the meantime I can easily and quickly view maps of Vancouver Island and anywhere else in Canada on my computer. Again, I appreciate your help, and hope I wasn't too much of a pain in the you know where during the process.

MapInstall won't work because I don't have a GPS to connect to my computer. I just want to be able to view the maps on my computer and print off the ones I need. Maybe that's the problem. Aside from that, upgrading to Snow Leopard has made my laser printer obsolete, (it's not even two years old). Lexmark, my printer manufacturer, doesn't make a driver for 10.6, only 10.5. I contacted Apple and they suggest reloading the 10.4 OS. The downside is that going back to 10.4 will delete all the data on my hard drive. To make matters worse, I just spent a small fortune on three new high yield toner cartridges for my printer. I don't expect you to solve my problems, but I thought I should let you know.

Actually, you may have a couple things wrong there. 1) The part about needing to upgrade to 10.5 first. Though it's labeled as an upgrade from Leopard (10.5), Mac OS X "Snow Leopard" (10.6) will install even if you don't have 10.5 - any other OS on your system for that matter. You could install it from scratch on a bare hard drive if you wanted. As long as your system meets to minimum hardware requirements. 2) You say your iMac is "about three years old" and has Tiger (10.4) on it. As Leopard (10.5) was released in October 2007, your machine may be older than you think -- and may NOT meet those minimum specs. When you pull down the Apple menu and select "About This Mac," what kind of processor does it say you have? As long as it says "Intel" you're okay. That depends on you. Some people tell me playing the guitar is easy but I've never gotten the hang of it. Did you click on the link I gave in the earlier message? Here's an update. I purchased the latest software update and installed it so that I could download the Stuffit Expander application. Next I used Stuffit to convert the tgz file to a gmapi file, and then put it in a documents folder on my hard drive. But, the good news stops there. MapManager still won't open it. When it finds the file and I click "Open" I get a window asking me if I want to install it. The first time I clicked "install" and it did, but I couldn't see any difference anywhere with anything. Every time I try to open it I get the same window asking me if I want to install it. Any suggestions?

I'm using an iMac that's about three years old. The OS is Tiger v10.4. In order to upgrade to 10.5, Stuffit minimum requirements, I would have to buy the Leopard upgrade which is around $150. The $30 10.6 upgrade is for Leopard 10.5 users, (I think I'm right on all this). I've been searching for an older version of Stuffit Expander but have found nothing. The command line is something I've never used, but is perhaps the only way to go. Is it hard to figure out?

Thanks. My system requirements are not updated for Stuffit and I can't afford Snow Leopard. I tried Zipeg a freeware, but the Ibycus file is too large for it to open. Can you recommend an app that can open a huge file? Thanks!

Has anyone had problems opening Ibycus topo file .tgz on their Mac? I can't get MapManager to open the file. If you can help that would be great. Thanks.

Has anyone had a problem getting Ibycus maps to run on their Mac? I can't get MapManager to open the .tgz file. I'm wondering if MapManager only recognizes Garmin maps. If you have experienced this I would like to hear from you. Thanks!