Free space reducing on Sat Nav

Dammo

Hi,

I have a garmin nuvi 610 sat nav. I mostly use it to listen to audiobooks while travelling. I've noticed that the amount of free space I have seems to be reducing as I load/unload the books. For example, I have c.83mb of free space for my new book but my previous book was 103mb, yet there was no problem. All I do is put the book on, listen to it, then take it off again. I don't use it for music or anything else. Am I missing something blindingly obvious here? If anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them.

Thanks.

KoolKid

Have you loaded any new maps lately?
Any new voices?
Can you unit use a SD memory card?

Dammo

Not directly related to a map download I think since my last one was a while ago and this has happened since if you know what I mean.

I could use a memory card I suppose but I was wondering why it was happenening on hard drive.

KoolKid

Can you browse the directory of the device & see what files are taking up the space?
Does this device store screenshots for example?

Dammo

I deleted a few folders that I was fairly sure wouldn't damage the unit's main functions like the 'cars', etc. but as you can probably guess, I'm not that technically minded so I didn't chance deleting anything else.

KoolKid

Generally extra voices take up a lot of space.
If your using for media I would strongly recommend a memory card.
Can you post a screen shot of the directory?

Dammo

Hmmm, how would I do that? As I say, I not much of a techie.:o

KoolKid

Open up the root directory in a folder & maximise to full screen,.
Press ctrl + Print Screen (its usually above the insert key , to the right of the enter key) Open Paint (Or any other photo editing software) & press ctrl v . Save to desktop & upload in a post here.

Dammo

Sorry, that doesn't seem to work for me. Saw on a website that keys may be different for a laptop but can't figure what ones. Apologies for this, must be like talking to a two-year old.

Dammo

Is this coming through?

KoolKid

Can you do the same for the contents of the folders
Audible
Garmin
JPEG
MP3

Dammo

The MP3 and JPEG folders are empty. The Audible folder contains the current audiobook segment and a folder called 'position' which is also empty. Just to advise, I've deleted the 'help', 'poi' and 'vehicles' before adding this segment of the audiobook which is only 2mb bigger than the first segment of the same book.

KoolKid

TBH I can't see anything obvious. I don't have a Garmin device myself. If anyone here has similar it would be interesting to compare the directory contents.

What I would advise is to make a note of dates from when loading content now. After you delete that if the space has reduced , look for files & folders created on those dates.

Dammo

Cheers Koolkid. It's not a massive problem or anything, it just seemed unusual to me and I was wondering if it was anything obvious. Appreciate you taking the time.

KoolKid

Anytime.
Let me know how you get on.

Dammo

Cheers Bedlam,

I've stuck in a memory card so there's no problem on that score but it still seems a little odd to me. I was just wondering if anyone had come across this before and what causes it.

Thanks for the reply.

IrlJidel

Dammo wrote: »

Cheers Bedlam,

I've stuck in a memory card so there's no problem on that score but it still seems a little odd to me. I was just wondering if anyone had come across this before and what causes it.

Thanks for the reply.

Could you have tracklogging enabled? How big is your Garmin/GPX folder?

Dammo

IrlJidel wrote: »

Could you have tracklogging enabled? How big is your Garmin/GPX folder?

Tracklogging? No idea what that is even (see earlier post for admission of technical incompetence!).

I can understand that updating maps might reduce free space, it's just that after updating the map I was able to load a book segment of 103mb but a few days ago I didn't have space for 82mb despite not uploading anything in the meantime. Just struck me as odd.

Dammo

The garmin/gpx folder is 5kb