{"id":329,"date":"2016-04-12T16:16:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T16:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2016-04-12T17:06:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T17:06:52","slug":"just-a-shout-out-to-my-garmin-map-update-howto-from-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/2016\/04\/12\/just-a-shout-out-to-my-garmin-map-update-howto-from-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a shout-out to my Garmin Map Update HOWTO from last year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saved me tons of time again this year:\u00a0Garmin Map Update\u00a0HOWTO<\/a><\/p>\n

Or so I thought… it’s never this easy, is it? \u00a0“There was an error installing the Update”. \u00a0Well, that’s bloody useful, isn’t it, Garmin? Have I mentioned before that your software SUCKS???<\/p>\n

Luckily I’m an experienced hand with their shite, and creating a hard link on C: drive (where they INSIST on\u00a0creating a temporary area to download their 5GB onto) to my D: drive (where I actually have room for it, and where I TOLD it to install the maps to) fixed this.<\/p>\n

Specifically, it abuses\u00a0C:\\ProgramData\\Garmin\\CoreService\\Downloads\u00a0as a temporary download location.<\/p>\n

To create a hard-link, also called a “Junction”, in Windows:<\/p>\n

mklink \/J Downloads D:\\Garmin\\Downloads<\/code><\/p>\n

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This still requires you to have at least 6GiB free space on C: drive, as the Garmin software\u00a0still\u00a0checks free space requirements even after you have already downloaded the maps prior to installing on your GPS device.<\/p>\n

I repeat, Garmin SUCKS when it comes to software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saved me tons of time again this year:\u00a0Garmin Map Update\u00a0HOWTO Or so I thought… it’s never this easy, is it? \u00a0“There was an error installing the Update”. \u00a0Well, that’s bloody useful, isn’t it, Garmin? Have I mentioned before that your software SUCKS??? Luckily I’m an experienced hand with their shite, and creating a hard link on C: drive (where they INSIST on\u00a0creating a temporary area to download their 5GB onto) to my D: drive (where I actually have room for it, and where I TOLD it to install the maps to) fixed this. Specifically, it abuses\u00a0C:\\ProgramData\\Garmin\\CoreService\\Downloads\u00a0as a temporary download location. To create a hard-link, also called a “Junction”, in Windows: mklink \/J Downloads D:\\Garmin\\Downloads This still requires you to have at least 6GiB free space on C: drive, as the Garmin software\u00a0still\u00a0checks free space requirements even after you have already downloaded the maps prior to installing on your GPS device. I repeat, Garmin SUCKS when it comes to software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,29],"tags":[40,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}