upgrade and lose poi's: WHY

1mo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 07, 2008 Posts: 3

Why is it when upgrading go v3, lose all pre-installed poi's???

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Darren · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:59 am Post subject:

You'll have to give us a little more to work on here, what upgrade and which POIs?
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Andy_P · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:46 pm Post subject:

If you upgrade a MAP, the POIs are stored in the original map's folder and are usually not transferred across (although the latest version of Home and latest maps sometimes manage it). It is easy to get them back by copying them from the old map's folder (or a backup of the same) into the new map folder.
Updates of SOFTWARE should not lose any POIs at all.

1mo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 07, 2008 Posts: 3

Did a software upgrade from tomtotm and poi's not in the poi folder, except one, camera data.

1mo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 07, 2008 Posts: 3

software upgrade for go one v3

Darren · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:34 am Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject:

POIS do not go in the POI folder!

POI files go in the named map folder which you want them to work with (e.g. "Western_Europe")

Oldboy · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:01 pm Post subject:

He might mean poi.dat! Shocked

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Andy_P · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:06 pm Post subject:

He might!

He said in his first post "pre-installed POIs" Embarassed

In which case ALL this talk of folders (who started that? Rolling Eyes

) is spurious.

If it is the original POI categories that came with the device from new, then that is (as Oldboy says) a single file, called poi.dat (which also lives in the relevant map's folder.

You should be able to simply copy it across from a previous backup, but a software update shouldn't lose it anyway. Can you see it with Win Explorer?

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