GARMIN GPS - Do you or Did you have one?

[hermosabeach]

Like some of you, I have had a Garmin for years....

While looking to update the Speed Cameras and Red Light Camera File, I stumbled across a storage hog...


I had 50+ GB of old maps!

Not a huge amount of space... but I deleted the old Installers and Old maps...


It looks like Garmin is slopped with updates not removing old junk off of the computer!



Here is what I stumbled across--

I was just cleaning up old map files in the C:/ProgramData/garmin/coreservice/downloads folder, and noticed that I have a Garmin Express installer .exe file for every version of GE I've ever installed. Takes up more than a Gb of space. I assume it's safe to delete all those installers?

Between these installers, and the well-known map files that pile up in the CoreService folder, Garmin sure seems to be sloppy about cleaning up after itself.

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This is for Windows 10 and backslashes have been replaced by the "pipe" symbol | (vertical line). |

In the folder C:|ProgramData|Garmin|CoreService|Downloads|Map
are numerous folders named Map_Map.NA2021.20 or similar. Each folder is 6+ GB.

In the folder C:|ProgramData|Garmin|CoreService|Downloads|Applic ation
there are folders named Application_Application.express-windows 7.1.4.0 or something similar. Each of those folders are 112 MB.

In the folder C:|ProgramData|Garmin|CoreService|Downloads|Firmwa re
there are folders named Firmware_Firmware.006-B19948.00.8.80 or somthing similar. Each of these folders is about 83 MB. I had 40 of these folder, for a total of 3.3 GB!

In all the instances I've cleaned out everything except for the most recent 2 to 4 entries and there doesn't seem to be any issues with Garmin Express

[hermosabeach]

If you want to set up an alert for Red Light Camera in your GPS, its Cheap enough and easy too

http://www.poi-factory.com/poifiles/us/red-light-cameras

[C.G.]

I prefer to do manual updates for Garmin GPSs. Downloaded the Express once, didn't care for it.

[Rvg2151]

I still use garmin as its offline and I dont use my cellular data for google maps/waze.

If you just need directions and not taking a road trip google maps or waze has free traffic alerts.