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Just occasionally Macs are not as good as PCs! Will be interested to know if a different unzipper sorts the problem out. But at least I know for the next time that I can do it on a PC ok. Does the update go on indefinitely or does it stop when the car reaches 3 years and they then start charging?? Perhaps I will just have to buy a new car every 3 years.

Have been staying for weekend with someone who has a pc and a fast broadband so updated my satnav which had only partially worked on a Mac update. All went easily and the missing place and road names have now reappeared. I won’t try using the Mac ever again for this update as it clearly only works if you are prepared to do some hidden file manipulation.

I have tried everything and I can get the new maps to show ok but with no road numbers or place names, just markers/rectangles where they should have been. It navigates fine. The only way I managed to get it to read ok was to download all the folders and files contained under the top level folder (STD1_P72_EU_2018), ie the markets sub folder plus the text file. I didn't remove any hidden files as when it did that it didn't seem to make any difference. Next step is to try using a PC rather than a mac. And then try the local garage!

Done some more work on it and found another way to show hidden files, just use cmd + shift + . together which then enables all hidden files to be seen in Finder. Doing it again reverses this facility which came with Sierra. So I did that and deleted them all on the SD Card, then took it out without ejecting it but no improvement so I am stumped. I am tempted to go back to the old version and see if that works still, or give a PC a go at installing it.

Thanks will give it a go.

To update my Admundsen maps, I have updated using a Mac and whilst the nav data seems to be working ok I am getting the issue of blank squares and no road names etc I have tried OscartheGrouchs method of removing hidden files with no success. When I did the update I saved the contents of the card, reformatted the card and then installed the entire set of folders which appeared under the new data main folder STD1_P72_EU_2018 ie markets/eu/map/mapregions and styles etc etc. I also transferred across the txt file. Can anyone tell me in simple terms what else I can try doing to restore the place names and road numbers? SATMAN has suggested using Terminal and running a different hidden file deletion process as below but I have not tried this yet as it isn't clear to me what to input into your-volume -name and I dont want to delete my entire hard drive by mistake! find /Volumes/<your-volume-name> -name '._*' -type f -delete Can anyone give me any more advice or should I try doing the whole process again on a PC?

When I download the update file (using a mac) I get a large number of folders e.g.: markets/eu/map and markets/eu/vde and these all have sub folders. I cant find anywhere in the thread where someone has stated which folder is the one to transfer to the SD Card, I guess it is markets/eu/maps and all its sub folders? Or is it the whole folder structure which is called STD1_P64_EU_2017? Skoda's instructions are not very clear at all. Grateful for any advice.

Been recommended Briskoda by a neighbour with a Yeti, having just bought an Octavia Greenline 3 Estate. With zero VED and averaging just under 70 mpg it looks like about the cheapest car to run for its size.