loading maps to a external hard drive

Footloose
Better to insert CD, stop installation , then go to Run/D: And open the CD and copy all files to a folder on the Lacie , open the folder , find the .EXE and install it from the H/D then you won't have to insert the CD everytime you need it.

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Doug, if the maps are installed on the removeable drive, and the program looks to that drive when it wants maps, what's the problem ?
I was trying to not to confuse the poster by getting too in depth, as he requested :)

Footloose
Exactly as I said ...every time you want to use the mapping software tou have to insert the CD . can't you grasp that , I do know how it works. It will be the same if he installs it on the laptop H/D , as I said copy the CD to the h/d and then install the program from that, result is you don't have to insert the CD every time you use it, I did own a copy of Ozi once and that's how it will work, click on the shortcut and a panel will pop up asking to insert the CD ....simple.

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Doug, no I can't "grasp that"( how condescending !), despite having spent years programming computers using C+ and VizBasic, and successfully selling one of my programs to a host of educational institutions, and having a copy of Ozi in front of me.

It seems that we aren't speaking the same language.
If the device he wishes to use is seen as a CD drive, then yes.

But if the computer sees it as a HD then it will not ask you to put anything in. It's the same as having your maps on any other drive.

Footloose
No ...I didn;t think you did grasp what I'm saying, If you have been involved in Computer programming then you should know exactly what I'm saying.
There was once a long time ago I bought Ozi and Raster. ( binned it last year) I installed the programm's to my PC, I then removed the CD and put it away, I then clicked the icon and it would not work unless the CD was inserted, So I then deleted the files via control panel, reinserted the CD and when it began to install again I cancelled out, I then opened the CD so I could see the contents, copied the contents to a folder on the h/d,removed the CD , opened the folder, found the exe file and installed the program from there, then when I used the program I no longer had to insert the CD everytime i used the program, Now can you absorb that.I may not be a programmer , I don't make programs, I teach myself by experimenting, the same as I built my own computer in 2001 from all the parts and components from an empty mini-tower casing, ,
As i have stated before, all my comments are from my own experiences and learning, tested and retested , PCs and GPS, not what someone has told me, If I don't know about a product I don't comment.

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"If you have been involved in Computer programming then you should know exactly what I'm saying."
I'm afraid that isn't always the case. You can get a programming solution in many ways, some more elequent than others. No two computer programmers will work in the same way. There are too many of them anyway, which is why I havent done it for years:)

It may well be that this particular device is seen as a removeable device by the computer, in which case my advice would be incorrect, but my comments would be true. There again, this might not be the case.

Yes I agree. There are many people on here who know far more about many topics than I, and I usually keep "my gob shut". But that doesn't stop me trying to help out where I think that I can add to the posters solution, the knowledge base, or simply give someone a good giggle. If that's seen as undesireable by the forum then so be it.

In another non computer group that I moderate , a guy corrected someone's post. He was wrong. So why didn't I jump in and correct him ? Because the original poster and the correcting poster were seeing two different pictures and using slightly fuzzy logic. I have too much respect for the members of that forum to engage in an ego war.

So in this forum lets agree to disagree. I'm sure that if we were sitting besides the poster, either of us could sort him out in two seconds flat.

Sometimes you have to load a map from the ext hard drive just to make it work.

Try that and see if it works, also tick the load last map in Config