[philipm785]

I recall reading somewhere else that somebody who had formatted FAT32 on their Mac had to remove the various Mac specific files from the root before it would be recognized. They might be hidden or system files? Alternatively, maybe format blank FAT32 on Windows and give that a try.

[Imbohori]

Originally Posted by Surly73

OK - I see conflicting info out there, but there are videos of some people with NEXT using armrest so maybe that's not it.

The stick needs to be FAT32. Without endorsing wherever this guy got his FSC code, here's a guy with NEXT doing the whole process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugCyrRwu9pM

Thank you, Nice Vid, but it shows the process working the way it should in a perfect world, and recently, my BMW has not been cooperating with me.

I still have some ideas, updated Maps is not the end of the world, I use my iPhone anyway but this was a cool thing to play around with and see what the new BMW maps look like, there are a bunch of new roads in Florida where I live and it would be nice to have the maps updated without paying BMW hundreds of dollars, I need to pay them $2500 to fix my timing chain issue and that is another story

[Imbohori]

Originally Posted by philipm785

I recall reading somewhere else that somebody who had formatted FAT32 on their Mac had to remove the various Mac specific files from the root before it would be recognized. They might be hidden or system files? Alternatively, maybe format blank FAT32 on Windows and give that a try.

Trying this now, the issue I have is I have the Map Data on my Mac, so as soon as I plug in the USB drive into the MAC, will that add these hidden files?

[philipm785]

Not sure as I do not have a Mac. Do you have any other system you could do this with? Or perhaps you have Parallels or something similar on your Mac?

[Imbohori]

Originally Posted by philipm785

Not sure as I do not have a Mac. Do you have any other system you could do this with? Or perhaps you have Parallels or something similar on your Mac?

I just Downloaded software for my MAC called BlueHarvest, it removes these MAC hidden files, I will try again soon.

I wasn't aware that they were hidden files, I thought it would of shown up when I put the USB drive into a PC.

Also, I was told to format it to exFAT so trying this now.

[Imbohori]

Finally a resolution:

Formatted USB Drive to exFAT
Used BlueHarvest to clean MAC files

Just updated my Maps to 2019 Boom

Thanks Guys

[philipm785]

Glad you got it working!

[Imbohori]

Originally Posted by philipm785

Glad you got it working!

Thanks man, It took a while, but Im so happy it worked out.

FYI everywhere I looked online says USB drive needs to be FAT32...

I searched on eBay, found a seller for the new maps and FSC Code, read what was sent to me and it worked fine with exFAT and software to remove the mac files.