Garmin 765T on a Macbook: Problem Solved

I got a new 765T for Christmas and I spent a few hours fighting with it yesterday.

When I hooked up the unit to my Macbook, none of the Garmin tools would recognize the device, nor would it mount the flash drive. However, it did work on my wife's Macbook, so it wasn't the USB cable or the device itself.

I noticed on mine, that when it was plugged in, I got a message along the lines of "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." I looked at the device in "Disk Utility" and it showed the device was partitioned with a weird type - PGPwde_MBR_Disk_scheme.

After a little Googling, and thinking about what I've installed over the years on the Macbook, I came to the conclusion that it might have something to do with the PGP demo software I had installed a few years back.

I did a search across my drive for any files with PGPwde in them, and sure enough, there were remnants. So I deleted the PGPwde.framework folder (somewhere in my System or Library directory) and the PGPwde.kext kernel extension. Since I don't use PGP whole disk encryption anymore, no big deal.

Well - problem fixed. Now all the Garmin tools work on the Macbook.

So does anybody use PGP (not GPG or Truecrypt) whole disk encryption on a Mac with Garmin tools and have it work together?