It will boot up into a system mode where it will eventually (it takes a while!!!) ask you if you want to erase all user data. Then boot your device keeping your thumb in the bottom right corner on the device screen. This method one person reported needing to do before following the above method would work on a unit he purchased second hand. This method won’t get you to the settings to display all the files, but it will reset your user data. Of course make sure you’ve backed up your device before doing anything. Navigate back and select “RWFS Settings” (this is for Read, Write, File System).įrom here you can see all of the data on yourĪnd clean it up.Change those settings from “Auto Detect” to “Mass Storage”.Going further to expose all the data on your.The first option listed is to clear user data, you can do that if you want to reset your user data.This will put you into a ‘developer’ settings mode.When that screen comes up, touch and hold the compass direction.Go to the map screen and touch the speedometer display.The first is the method you want to do if you want a simple user data reset, or more importantly to get into the settings so you can really see the file system and data on your There are a number of posts, videos, and articles out there about how to reset the user data on a Garmin. Once I cleared all those out and restarted, I had loads of space back, more than enough to update my maps. _trash, etc… were the ones hogging space. Turns out OSX it all its assumptions decided to pull all the hidden “._” folders all over the place and specifically in the Garmin folder itself. The problem was what happened when it had been connected previously on my MacBook. It turns out what was taking up space on my device had nothing to do with Garmin or maps. That finally allowed me to load the nuvi and the full file systems including files hidden from view. No joy.įinally on a reset of user data, I decided to play around with from of the other settings exposed on the reset screen. I tried various user resets, and clearing what little data I had in /map to begin with. Unfortunately it was only 2 GB, so not near enough room to help out (and apparently the device can’t span file systems with the map data).
I also threw in a spare micro-SD card I had. I checked the space and sure enough it did not have much space, so I scoured the forums to figure out what I could clean-up on my However, on the last few rounds of updates, it kept telling me that it didn’t have enough room to update my full map. And since its in good working order and has lifetime map updates, no reason to not continue using it! Even though I have moved into a vehicle which has a built in GPS, I still find having my Garmin useful.
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