how much does the micro drive cost? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Susan Mangis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 9:23 PM Subject: Re: [Braillenote] GPS and Maps
> Hi Sue, > > Looks like even if you deleted the program from the compact flash and all documents that you still wouldn't quite have > enough room. > > I also live in Northern California and wanted to put the southern cal maps on so I used my 5 Gb microdrive and put both > sets of maps into a single folder. > > Frankly, I think you will likely need to buy a larger compactflash card, say 512 Mb. > > The poi directory is too big to move onto the flash disk, so that wouldn't work either. > > Not sure just how much time you have before going to Southern cal, but I'd opt for another larger card. I haven't priced > them lately, but don't think they're too expensive. > > If you can afford it, the microdrive is probably the best way to go, but if all you really want is to have all of California > available to you at one time, the larger compact flash is probably your best bet. > > I am using the microdrive because I already had it before I got the gps, otherwise I'd probably just get a larger compact > flash too. > > Don > > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:29:01 -0800, Susan Mangis wrote: > > Good evening, > > Well, I have a bit of a problem. Since I will be traveling between Northern > and Southern California I decided to add Southern California to my compact > flash card. > I have the GPS 2.0 and it came with Northern California. From reading the > manual I understood that you can have up to 12 states in the map folder. I > know that the compact flash card isn't large enough to hold all of these, > but I can't put two states, northern and Southern California on the compact > flash card. I got four of the files I needed before it said the card is > full. I then moved the documents folder to the computer, but that didn't > help. The card has 255909888 characters, and I have 58593280characters > free. When checking the details on the computer, for the missing file I get > 99854 KB > So I'm wondering what else to remove, there are two documents, and the > program which I installed in the BN. plus the POI folder. I don't want to > mess anything up, Suggestions appreciated. > > Sue Mangis > > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >
