Learn BaseCamp in one day
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BigOgre
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As the season rolls around again I went back to Ed's tutorial to bone up on things. (Thanks Ed.) Came across a question which I'm hoping someone can help with rather than going through the trial and error thing on the road.
Over the past year or so I've been using an old Netbook when travelling and have Basecamp installed on it. Works great at hotels, etc. but not so much when trying to create routes from scratch which is when I prefer the home computer with the larger monitor. What I'd like to do (with confidence) is transfer items (folders, lists, routes, or anything else I choose) from BC on the PC over to the Netbook and then send them from there to my GPS whenever I'm ready. I think I can use a thumb drive to copy and paste from one to the other but I'm not 100% sure that what I'm transferring will work as intended once I separate it from the original. Last year I got caught short twice on the road when, after transferring my "route" from the Netbook to the GPS, all that came up were the waypoints with no actual routing shown even though I imported the so-called routes and they showed as such in the GPS' display.
One work-around I know will work is to import the routes from the home PC into the GPS, then send the routes from the GPS over to the Netbook after I manually duplicate the folders and lists to match the PC, and then go back and clean out the GPS again but I'm hoping someone can vouch for a better way. Btw, both machines are using the same versions of BC and maps and have the same settings chosen.
Over the past year or so I've been using an old Netbook when travelling and have Basecamp installed on it. Works great at hotels, etc. but not so much when trying to create routes from scratch which is when I prefer the home computer with the larger monitor. What I'd like to do (with confidence) is transfer items (folders, lists, routes, or anything else I choose) from BC on the PC over to the Netbook and then send them from there to my GPS whenever I'm ready. I think I can use a thumb drive to copy and paste from one to the other but I'm not 100% sure that what I'm transferring will work as intended once I separate it from the original. Last year I got caught short twice on the road when, after transferring my "route" from the Netbook to the GPS, all that came up were the waypoints with no actual routing shown even though I imported the so-called routes and they showed as such in the GPS' display.
One work-around I know will work is to import the routes from the home PC into the GPS, then send the routes from the GPS over to the Netbook after I manually duplicate the folders and lists to match the PC, and then go back and clean out the GPS again but I'm hoping someone can vouch for a better way. Btw, both machines are using the same versions of BC and maps and have the same settings chosen.
Easy Ed
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I keep the same version of BaseCamp on three different computers. File>Backup and then File>Restore on the new computer. Make sure that you update the map to the same version on each computer and check to see that the BaseCamp settings are the same.
BigOgre
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Ahh . . . ok. That would work. Transfer the whole BC library over to the Netbook and then delete out what I probably won't need while on that trip.
Wonder now if I could Export individual folders onto a drive and then Import onto another computer? Last time I only did Copy and Paste which might have caused the screw-up. Gonna have to experiment. Thank you once more.
