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I have been doing database updates for years without issue. Recently, the VFR/IFR charts will not update. All of the other line items do update and are current. The Active column for VFR/IFR charts shows 'Corrupt'.

I have tried a new SD card. I have tried completely wiping and formatting another new SD card with the formatting program recommended by Garmin (SD Card Formatter). Still no luck.

I have tried updating that one line item with the MFD soft keys. Still no luck.

The only thing I've not tried is deleting all of the databases and re-installing (for fear of that grounding my airplane). There does not seem to be an option to remove one database item.

Any ideas?

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I would delete all and then reload. It shows that the Active database is the corrupted one.

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I had this issue (with a G3000) about a year ago. Tried everything you mentioned, but no luck. Ended up having a technician remedy the corrupt database (it was Chartview) by resetting something while in maintenance mode. Not sure exactly what he did, but it was beyond my knowledge / know how. That said, he fixed the issue in 5-10 minutes. Since then, I’ve reformatted the SD card every time prior to loading a new Chartview database - and I also delete the old Chartview database from the ‘standby’ column prior to updating. Have heard the ‘corrupt’ issue may result from loading the same cycle database over / into an existing database, and perhaps with a change to that database’s coverage. For example, if you load a trip pack same cycle Chartview database onto an existing Chartview database, might go corrupt… Haven’t had any issues since.

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I agree, I have had to do this a handful of times and the reload takes about an hour or so.

Thankfully, last year I had a new software load installed and now I have the option to delete just the corrupt database.

I have never proven this, but I think it had something to do with me not giving the system enough time to copy the database to PFD2 after the old charts had expired. When I dug into it, it always said the issue was with PFD2. Unfortunately, I never saw an option to just blow away the database on PFD2 and have it reload from the MFD.

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This has happened to me as well. The only way to fix it is to delete all the database line items and reload again. It’s takes some time about 4 hours if you have a fast service. Make sure you have a 32g SD Card I have found that the 8g is too small. FAT FORMATTING. it will fix the corrupt problem.

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I had the same issue and the only solution for me was to delete all the databases and start again. I called Jeppesen and made sure I had a fresh download available for all of the databases then went to work. Hasn't happened again in the last 3 or 4 updates.