Is it possible to down-date Garmin Express (solved)

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Is it possible to down-date Garmin Express (solved)

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I have the latest version of Express. Zumo XT2 comes with permissions to download all sort of maps from across the globe. A while back I downloaded N America, and it was also possible to install the maps on to the PC, which I have done.

I've just downloaded OZ maps - I don't need it on the XT2, but I would like it on the PC for Basecamp.
But Express v 4.70 no longer has that option.

Is it possible to install an earlier version of Express - or get the maps from the XT2 onto a PC.
Have owned Zumo 550, 660 == Now have Zumo XT2, XT, 595, 590, Headache
Use Basecamp (mainly), MyRouteApp (sometimes), Competent with Tread for XT2, Can use Explore for XT - but it offers nothing that I want !

Links: Zumo 590/5 & BC . . . Zumo XT & BC
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Re: Is it possible to down-date Garmin Express (Solved)

Post by jfheath »

Ok - I found a solution. This is Express v7.23.0.0

The problem was that the maps that I had installed to the XT2 without issue, would not install to the PC (Windows).
I know that the option used to be there prior to this version of Express. I had updated Express earlier this month.

But once installed on the XT2, the beahviour of the XT2 was dfferent. It lists all of the maps that are on the The XT2 and underneath each one is a link to Options. This normally gives two options - Reinstall Maps, and Install Maps to Computer. That second option was not there.

So I got rid of Express - Uninstalled it, and reinstalled it.

And now the option is there again. So my maps are now installed on the PC for BAsecamp to find.

I can't belive that I had to uninstall Express to get this. Maybe I just needed to reinstall it. I don't know.
But the clutching at straws trick worked OK. Again. I hate doing things that I know I shouldn't have to do. But until I have tried everything I cannot say that there is no answer. I've been doing a lot of clutching at straws recently. Thatchers are not that easy to find these days either.
Have owned Zumo 550, 660 == Now have Zumo XT2, XT, 595, 590, Headache
Use Basecamp (mainly), MyRouteApp (sometimes), Competent with Tread for XT2, Can use Explore for XT - but it offers nothing that I want !

Links: Zumo 590/5 & BC . . . Zumo XT & BC