POI Loader for Windows v 2.7.1

Finally. That should have been an easy fix a long time ago.
I hope it works.

Thanks will give it a try.

Downloaded fine
Installed fine
Ran fine
Everything appears fine on 1490LMT

I guess everythings fine for me !

They STILL haven't fixed the issue where I can no longer control what folder it's installed to. This installation goes to C:\Program Files\Garmin\POI Loader regardless, and I don't really care to have control taken from me. Unfortunately, the only thing I can do instead is run version 2.5.4, and I won't be doing that.

Thanks for the update.

Thanks for letting us know about the new version.

Hopefully now since it affects my 3490LMT and it is the only version that recognizes my device, I will not have to save the file to my desktop and then copy it to my sd card. Going to d/l it now and test it. I had called Garmin tech support about this issue when I first received my unit and with help info from other users they finally got the issue resolved.

You can rename the folder or copy the exe file to the folder you want it in provided you did a previous install to that folder. The DLLand supporting files don't change that often.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Thanks for the heads up - it is nice to know that this long stemming issue has been resolved - I will install and try it out tonight.

update:

Just updated - haven't tried it yet.

Didn't realize that, I thought the installation "coded" everything to the install directory. I'll give it a whirl.

Thanks for the info and the site reference. I'll download it, but wait a little to see if there are any problems being reported.

Thanks for the info!

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Your file name.poi will always be the name of the folder where you told the loader your files were located in. Just rename the folder on your desktop to POI and the related poi it creates will then always be POI.gpi.

Just tested it and everything appears to be fine.

That's understood, but what I was complaining about is that the installation program doesn't allow me to select what folder I want the POI Loader installed in.

Worked fine here. Files look correct. (1490 on Win 7 pro 64)

The first time I reloaded my custom POI's, POIloader 2.7.1 found an entry that had a missing " (double quote). The entry was, in fact, syntactically incorrect. I must have used prior releases of the loader a hundred time without the error being detected.
When the error was detected, it pointed right to the correct line so that I could fix it. Good job, loader.

Updated earlier this week. Haven't used it since then though.

Will give this one a try and see what happens

Thanks for the info.

Tried it out with all the updates with no problems.

Also had no problems with any of my updates.

will update. that SD card POI bug was one of reasons I moved my EU maps to SD card and started loading POIs back to device itself even though I learned later on where the error was. I just like comfort i guess

Ok. It's kind of cool that it now names the files properly instead of just poi.gpi but....... I just loaded a file onto my nuvi. It shows up on the card just fine. When I booted the nuvi I got the normal prompt about new files asking if I want to move it to the actual GPS. On my unit - the 760 - I always have to answer Yes and then I get another screen that lets me mark "skip this" and "never ask again". In this manner I've been able to keep the custom poi files on the card rather than on the GPS.

When I loaded the files this time I got the same queries and used the same method as always. However, the dang poi doesn't show up on the GPS. All of my other custom POI files still show but the new one doesn't. I've gone through the process 3 times so far and the stupid file is on the card but invisible when I try to use it on the GPS.

Add another category to your file structure and put the file in it. Then see if it shows up. How many files do you have in the category you are trying to add it to?

Tested a few days ago and everything is working as designed.

My wife was kind and said it was a PEBKAK error but I say it was an ID10T error. Stupid new version changed the way it functions a bit by creating the name for me. It wasn't working the way I was used to and I was fried from a night of almost no sleep. The entries were showing up but NOT under the file name. They were just dumped into the unit.

It's weird because even when I manually put the .gpi file with the proper name on the unit it still didn't show up under that name. I eventually calmed down and figured out what I was doing wrong and all is well.

Pretty embarrassing as I work in IT and am constantly working with users who make stupid mistakes of this kind. I guess it goes to show that sleep can be important.

Works just fine for me.

The new poi loader seems to work well for me.