User Guide

folder on your hard drive, these files now appear directly on the MMC

card, if you follow the directions provided.

Saving directly to your MMC card will often save you time when pre-

paring your GPS unit for a trip into the field, but sometimes you will

want to save your information in a more permanent location. For those

times, you can still save files directly to your hard drive from MapCre-

ate, or copy them from the card. This change affects only the default

save location - you still have all the same options for changing the final

save location.

Other Fixes:

Page 3: Map Border Files. MapCreate 6.0 automatically saved unti-

tled Map Border Files to your hard drive as "untitled.lmp" when you

closed MapCreate without first saving the border file. You could not

choose a name or location for this file. In MapCreate 6.1, the problem

has been fixed. Choosing to save changes will now open a standard

Save As window where you can choose the name and location of the

map border file.

Page 4: Old GPS Data Files (GDM or *.low). Although MapCreate 6

is designed to load and read older GPS Data Files in the *.low format,

MapCreate 6.0 also allowed users to choose to save new files in the

older format (though the program could not actually save them). This

has been corrected. You can still open files in either format, but you can

now only save GPS Data Files in the new *.usr format.

MMC Card Format. If you ever have to format your MMC card, you

should know that MapCreate, as well as Lowrance and Eagle GPS

products, will only read cards that are FAT formatted. MMC cards for-

matted using FAT 32 or NTFS will not work with our products. (Al-

though it was true for MapCreate 6.0 as well, this information does not

appear in the manual.)

WARNING:

You should never format an MMC containing a Navionics

chart. Formatting the MMC will permanently erase the

chart from the card.

NOTE:

This addendum supplements the manual MapCreate 6, part num-

ber 988-0147-38. The following modified Quick Reference replaces

the one on page 17 of the manual.