hello I am Wanderer001 and this is a requested video that I get a lot
but never made because I didn't want to put the information out there because I
wasn't sure if Garmin would put a stop to it
but based on another question that I was researching for somebody else it seems
they pretty much don't care so what is the question well if you've read the
title you know why you're here but for those who just clicked without looking
it is how to move a vehicle from one Garmin GPS to another let's say you
downloaded something from the Garmin garage on an older GPS model and you
want to move it over to your new GPS model in this case normally people are
asking how I got the x-wing graphic as a map icon so this is going to be how to
do that step one is you're gonna take your old
GPS and this case I'm going to use the new one because I've already done this
but we take our old GPS and then you're going to plug it into your computer as
if it was a external hard drive now you are not going to use the Garmin Express
application that you probably have on your computer to update your Maps now
based on the peripherals that you have on your GPS in this case I have a micro
USB you will need a micro USB cable some of the older models use a mini mic mini
USB so just pay attention and then just grab the right cable and plug in your
GPS once you plug in your GPS you may notice that the Garmin Express will
automatically pop up if you have an update or even if you don't and your
computer is set to automatically open with it in this case my new nuvicam does
have an update which I will do after recording so you don't want to use the
Garmin Express app what you want to do and this depends on your computer
whether your PC or Mac and what operating system you have you want to
come over and get to your file explorer now again based on your computer that
may be in a different location what we're gonna then do is we're gonna come
down and find our GPS yours might will be called something different it will
not be called the nuvicam unless you're using a nuvicam you then open
your new nuvicam or GPS in my case I chose to use the nuvicam because I have three
possible areas that you can see and I wanted you to see all of these so that
you have a better idea of where you should go in this case I have a memory
card for my dash cam I have internal storage and I've got a memory card which
I've added so that my map updates can go here you want internal storage so you
double click on that to open it and then you'll see all of these file folders
you'll notice one called vehicles right here double clicking on that will allow
you to see individual cars so here you can see the x-wing and you can see the
TIE fighter they are also in this dot srf file format so unless you have the
proper codec you will not be able to view these on your computer but this is
the easy part if you want to grab all of the vehicles you would just copy this
folder to your desktop or if you have multiple ports on your computer you can
have your other GPS plugged in navigate to the GPS and then internal storage and
copy this folder into your new GPS if you just wanted a singular item or in
this case to I can just highlight the two that I want and I can right click
copy or I can drag them to my desktop and then put in the new GPS and drag
those over now part of the reasons I held off on doing this is because I was
concerned that Garmin would make this difficult to do but what I've noticed is
the map data he is not here so they've made that difficult to exchange you have
to put your GPS into like developer mode you have to do some tweaks to your
computer in order to actually see the files so vehicles I think is actually
safe at this point so once you copy this folder or the individual vehicles over
to your new GPS you will then have said x-wing from your old GPS to your new GPS
and this will work with anything that you've downloaded from the Garmin garage
directly onto your GPS so I have been Wanderer001 hopefully
you found that helpful if you have any questions or comments please feel free
to leave them in the area below and as always thanks for watching