Garmin Edge 500 not mounting

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Garmin Edge 500 not mounting

My Garmin Edge 500 bike computer worked fine with Lion but since the upgrade to Mountain Lion the device does not mount as a volume on my desktop. I've tried Garmin's support service but their solution was to ask me to download new drivers that are for Windows machines. I discovered how to 'force mount' the device. That worked once allowing me to update the Garmin's firmware but the trick is not working now.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)

Posted on Sep 1, 2012 2:23 AM

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Apr 20, 2014 12:55 PM in response to GaryBandy

Here a very late answer: I am using a Garmin Oregon device with OS X 10.9, and also found that after a system upgrade (to 10.9 from 10.6.8) the device didn't appear on the desktop. However, the Garmin Basecamp program could see the device, and Disk Utility said that it was mounted. I finally realized that the device appears only at /Volumes/Garmin. The directory /Volumes is where the Unix system "attaches" disks. To get there from the Finder, you can choose the menu item Go, then Go to Folder, and then enter /Volumes . There you should see the Garmin "disk".

I have an SD card containing additional maps in my device. This results in two "disks" both named Garmin in the /Volumes directory. If in Go to Folder I enter /Volumes/Garmin, I end up in the one with just the maps. To arrive at the other "disk" I entered /Volumes/Garmin 1. Thus you might have to experiment with this, or just enter /Volumes and choose the disk once in that directory.

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