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Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 11:41 am Post subject: euro camera database, too many files
hi, want to download the euro cam database to my garmin. it tells me there are to many sub folders. i am using the speed zoned complete download. what can i do to rectify this?
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Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 3:41 pm Post subject: Re: euro camera database, too many files
rayrickard wrote:
hi, want to download the euro cam database to my garmin. it tells me there are to many sub folders. i am using the speed zoned complete download. what can i do to rectify this?
do you mean it says there are too many files in a sub folder?
if so then simply categorise your poi files into different sub folders.
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Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject: Re: euro camera database, too many files
rayrickard wrote:
hi, want to download the euro cam database to my garmin. it tells me there are to many sub folders. i am using the speed zoned complete download. what can i do to rectify this?
I'm guessing you created a new folder in your existing Custom POI directory tree and put all the European camera files in it. That would exceed the 32 files in subfolder limit. This is probably not a good idea anyway, because you have to tell POILoader what units to use for alerts. If all POIs are loaded together, you can't tell it that UK alerts are in mph and European ones in kph.
There are two solutions:-
Create a totally separate folder and put all the European camera files in it. (You can have more than 32 files in the top-level folder).
Point POILoader at this folder, tell it the units are metric and let it run. (Use the Custom Folder option to create POI.GPI on your PC)
Rename the resulting POI.GPI to EuroCams.GPI (for example) and copy to the \Garmin\POI folder on the device.
The downside of this, is that you will have about 50 top-level menu entries under "Extras | Custom POIs". Personally, I don't like that approach - especially for POIs that I never want to call up and navigate to!
(I've just realised - you may have been trying to work around this, by creating an extra level of sub-folder. This isn't supported)
What you could do, is
Create a separate folder and then create two sub-folders within it. The name of the top folder is irrelevant, but you could call the sub-folders something along the lines of "Euro Cams 1" and "Euro Cams 2". These names will appear in the Custom POI menu structure.
Put all the *mobile* camera files in one of the these sub-folders and the other cameras files in the other one.
Now run POILoader as before - point it at the top-level folder, select metric units and the Custom Folder option.
Rename POI.GPI as before and copy to the \Garmin\POI folder on the device.
This should result in just two top-level menu items (called Euro Cams 1 and Euro Cams 2 in my example). If you call the .GPI file something like ZZEuroCams.GPI, they should appear after everything that the unit finds in POI.GPI.
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