copying favorites on TOM TOM

dumbodick · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 06, 2006 Posts: 5

I am using Tom Tom on another memory card on my PDA. I need to copy the favorites information from another system, is there a file i can bring across that has this info. It must be stored on the storage card somewhere but i cant find it.

regards DB

hope68 · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 01, 2005 Posts: 66

julianbarker · Lifetime Member Joined: Apr 12, 2005 Posts: 431

The best thing to do is always use a POI category instead of favourites as favourite info is easily lost and not easily moved from machine ot machine. The best thing is to create a POI category, move al lyour favourites to it, then move the POI file (the OV2 file with the same name as the category) to the other device. If you want to then convert the POIs back to favourites you can do, but you are more likely to lose the data if TT ever has problems reading the card.

hope68 · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 01, 2005 Posts: 66

Sorry, what is difficult when you copy and paste a file?
I also have a copy of my xx-map.cfg-fiel on my sd-card (and also on my pc). if the cfg-file ever gets corrupt - then i just copy and paste it into the map-file and i have the favorites, home etc. again.

cu Peter

dumbodick · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 06, 2006 Posts: 5

thanks loads for the info, this site is so usefull.

db

Oldboy · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:57 pm Post subject:

hope68 · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 01, 2005 Posts: 66

sHaRpEy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 22, 2005 Posts: 20

Superb! Thanks for the info. TomTom is

cos once you create a favourite you can't see the address of GPS position data. Unless someone knows something I don't? Confused

Oldboy · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:21 pm Post subject:

sHaRpEy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 22, 2005 Posts: 20

Well if you've added a favourite, but later you won't to know the detials, ie: address/postcode you are unable to see this information. Only options are to rename or delete.

Oldboy · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:17 am Post subject:

You could put those details in the Text when you originally name the Favourite.

If it is a Favourite, would you need to know the extra information?
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vocaro · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 19, 2006 Posts: 1

Hope this helps.

neil01 · Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:48 pm Post subject:

Pedro-G · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:55 pm Post subject:

In case someone is interested, I just changed my old Scandinavia map to the Scandinavia Plus (v632). I managad to rescue my favourites by copying the .cfg file. Naturally I had to rename it to "_Plus-Map", but it was still compatible.

The only thing I lost was my Home address, but it took about 2 seconds to re-enter that... Smile

However, going with a POI category instead of favourites sounds good, I might do that.

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