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Putting Garmin Topos on your PCs harddrive.
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| Steve Calvin 2006-02-16, 5:48 pm |
| Someone (sorry, I can't recall who) on this group provided
the following instructions to me for loading the topos on
the hard drive so that every time I wanted them I didn't
have to dig for the CD. Works well, even though Garmin will
tell you that it won't for some reason...
1. Copy the map folders to the desired location on your HD.
2. Open the registry with RegEdit.
To run RegEdit, click on Start->Run..., type "regedit",
then click OK.
3. Find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder and expand it to:
SOFTWARE->Garmin->MapSource->Products.
under there 6=east 7=west 8=Hawaii 9=Alaska
Select one of 'em, say, 6 and you'll see four keywords.
Double clic on the Loc field and put the directory of where
you put the topos on the hard drive. i.e.: C:\Garmin\topos\East
Done. - do as many pf the four as you want. I just did the
East disk.
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Steve
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| Cooter 2006-02-17, 5:48 pm |
| Just wondering - if you had copied the installation and appropriate topo CDs
to a folder on the HD before installing, then installed from that folder,
wouldn't the PC pick up this location instead of looking for a CD in the
local CD drive? I did this for Roads & Rec and it works fine.
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| Steve Calvin 2006-02-17, 5:48 pm |
| Cooter wrote:
> Just wondering - if you had copied the installation and appropriate topo CDs
> to a folder on the HD before installing, then installed from that folder,
> wouldn't the PC pick up this location instead of looking for a CD in the
> local CD drive? I did this for Roads & Rec and it works fine.
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hm, don't know actually. Maybe someone else does. Editting
the reg is pretty simple though if it won't work that way
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Steve
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| geo.croft@gmail.com 2006-02-17, 5:48 pm |
| Don't edit Registry!!!!!
Just make a new folder. Copy all the CD's to the new folder. Open the
folder containing the first CD... and install. The installation
process will take care of the rest. Thereafter, Mapsource will know
the topo segments are on your hard drive rather than on CD's.
That's what I did for mine. Piece of cake.
TexGEOas
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| Steve Calvin 2006-02-17, 5:48 pm |
| geo.croft@gmail.com wrote:
> Don't edit Registry!!!!!
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> Just make a new folder. Copy all the CD's to the new folder. Open the
> folder containing the first CD... and install. The installation
> process will take care of the rest. Thereafter, Mapsource will know
> the topo segments are on your hard drive rather than on CD's.
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> That's what I did for mine. Piece of cake.
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> TexGEOas
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Too late... ;-)
Editting the registry isn't a big deal at all. You just need
to be careful when doing it.
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Steve
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