I posted an idea in another thread regarding the missing override on the 6.1 version of the Nav DVD (which I am copying below):
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Here's a crazy question...
Would it be possible for someone to take the 5.1 and 6.1 DVD's and "combine" them into one "hybrid" DVD?
In other words, could you take the map database from the 6.1 version, and the actual software from the 5.1 version, and burn your own? I know this isn't necessarily easy (since it probably isn't obvious which files are software and which ones are for the map database).
I am also curious - if you own both versions, could you swap them any time you wanted? So if I had to go somewhere that I might need the updated maps, I use 6.1, but for everyday driving (when I know where I am going), I could use the 5.1 version, and still have access to the OVERRIDE function?
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I popped the DVD out of my Nav system and popped it into my Mac to see what the file structure looked like. I pasted the results into an excel spreadsheet as attached below.
Does anyone out there have the ability to do the same with the 6.1 DVD? You don't have to use a Mac - I am just not sure how to do this with a PC, and include the subdirectories. I THINK there may be a command that might do this. I would like to compare the files on each disc to see what actually differs. If you have a Mac, this is how I did it:
- Open a terminal window
- Switch to the "Volumes" folder to access the DVD.
cd /Volumes
- Find the name of the DVD (this is a lowercase "LS")
ls
- This will show the mounted drives on your system. The DVD will probably have a numeric name like "464210-0629".
- Switch to the DVD - replace the number string below with the number you found in the previous step.
cd 46210-0629
- If you type "ls" here (without quotes), you should see a simple list of the files and folders on the DVD. To format it better, type the following at the prompt:
ls -lR
(that is LS -LR - all lowercase EXCEPT for the R)
Just copy the output into a plain txt file and post it here (you don't have to put it in a spreadsheet like I did - I just did it so it would format consistently).
It should look something like this:
Mac-Daddy:/Volumes/464210-0629 spiff$ ls -lR
total 8072900
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 842708 Oct 5 2005 05.CMP
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 2293800960 Oct 5 2005 ALLDATA.KWI
dr-xr-xr-x 3 spiff spiff 88 Jan 13 2006 ASYNTH
dr-xr-xr-x 79 spiff spiff 4000 Jan 13 2006 COVERAGE
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 1586 Oct 5 2005 COVERAGE.BIN
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 218 Oct 5 2005 COVERAGE.TXT
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 1748308004 Oct 5 2005 DICVCE56.KWI
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 10962944 Oct 5 2005 GRA256D.KWI
dr-xr-xr-x 96 spiff spiff 4928 Jan 13 2006 IDX
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 2048 Oct 5 2005 INDEXDAT.KWI
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 49152 Oct 5 2005 KGRA256.KWI
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 49152 Oct 5 2005 KPCT256.KWI
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 4700 Oct 5 2005 KPCT2DT.KWI
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 48082944 Jan 12 2006 LOADING.KWI
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 117 Oct 5 2005 METADATA.KWI
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 29497344 Oct 5 2005 PCT256D.KWI
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 591872 Oct 5 2005 PCT2DAT.KWI
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 174 Oct 5 2005 PCT2MNG.KWI
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 34 Oct 5 2005 SPEC.KWI
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 186368 Oct 5 2005 VAR256D.KWI
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 17 Oct 5 2005 VERSION.TXT
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 458752 May 17 2001 VIRTUAL0.DAT
-r-xr-xr-x 1 spiff spiff 458752 May 17 2001 VIRTUAL1.DAT
./ASYNTH:
total 4
dr-xr-xr-x 4 spiff spiff 128 Jan 14 2006 SPEECH
./ASYNTH/SPEECH:
total 8
dr-xr-xr-x 3 spiff spiff 84 Jan 14 2006 COMPS
dr-xr-xr-x 19 spiff spiff 872 Jan 14 2006 SOLO
./ASYNTH/SPEECH/COMPS:
total 4
dr-xr-xr-x 4 spiff spiff 144 Jan 14 2006 DATA
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