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INSTALLING GARMIN COMMUNICATOR PLUGIN HOW TO
INSTALLING GARMIN COMMUNICATOR PLUGIN INSTALL
INSTALLING GARMIN COMMUNICATOR PLUGIN UPDATE

So how did you install Garmin Express on your Mint pc ?

Took me half an hour to find cables and move stuff around and download updates for a previously installed Garmin Express, but heck it was miles less stress free and quicker than trying and failing the penguin way. In the end as I said I used my Windows 7 pc. I tried a few times but after wasting several hours of messing around I gave up. However whilst the script did start up and seem to start to install Garmin Express it kept on installing some windows NET files loads of them and once it had downloaded them the script stopped.

Install Garmin Communicator Plugin if you need to unlock maps.Thanks I had found that site in my initial reaserch and tried to use the script.

Copy C:UsersBasherAppDataRoamingGARMIN folder from previous Windows 7 to laptop Windows 7.

Copy folder C:ProgramDataGARMINMapsCity Navigator North America NT 2010.20.gmap from previous Windows 7.

Now double-click Setup.exe to install MapSource.

Open the folder MapSource_6163, find the file MSmain.msi and double-click it.

Using 7zip or RAR, right-click on Mapsource_6163.exe & choose ‘7-Zip – Extract to “MapSource_6163”.

Download Mapsource 6.16.3 from Garmin.

So this time I’m going from Windows 7 to Windows 7, these steps worked without any issues. So, once again, I needed to install Mapsource on a different laptop running Windows 7. These may be helpful to others battling the Garmin install/update wars! Installing Mapsource on two computers. Here’s a few other resource links that were given to me after I got this to work on my own.

INSTALLING GARMIN COMMUNICATOR PLUGIN UPDATE

I was then able to update my City Navigator NA NT 2010.10 to 2010.20 (which is not the latest), use Mapsource to upload maps to my GPS and all seems good to go now.

Hoping that the City Nav update would not see any maps on my GPS and then allow the update to complete. The next thing I did was connected to my GPS and backed up my *.img files from it and then removed them from the GPS. That got me a bit further but I was still getting the same error message from above. So, now what? After asking a few questions on & Garmin’s forums, I was told to copy over the Application DataGarminMapsUnlockCodes.ucx file from my laptop to my new iMac in Windows 7. This Garmin GPS is not eligible for this update because a previous map version is not installed. I run the install and it asks me to turn on the 60CSx GPS unit to verify, which I do, the install then continues and stops at: All worked good, now time to update to the latest map version I previously downloaded, City Nav NA NT 2010.20. Basically, I re-installed Mapsource and City Nav NA NT 2010.10 from my DVD which I purchased from Garmin. Sounds easy but I have a few troubles getting it installed. Since my new job will require some Windows applications, I’ve setup Boot Camp with Windows 7 to run those applications AND my Mapsource. All my Mapsource and City Navigator North America NT 2010.20 maps are installed on the Macbook in a virtual Windows XP session, which now needs to get re-installed to my iMac. So I got a new iMac (which is an incredible piece of technologoy!) because I’m changing jobs and my Macbook will need to be returned. These steps worked without a flaw for me this time! Installing Mapsource on two computers. UPDATE: See below if you need to copy from Windows 7 to Windows 7.

INSTALLING GARMIN COMMUNICATOR PLUGIN HOW TO

UPDATE: See below on how to install Mapsource without the CD or DVD.