how do i download pocket gps to applemac

mattcartmell · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 01, 2011 Posts: 78

I appreciate your advice and will start being more mature towards this. luckly Mike Downloaded the cams on to my wifes tt so that should get us from Barcelona to Costa Brava. Do you think its possible to re calibrate my 950 after my hols or is that a job for tt?
Thanks for your help and advice.

M8TJT · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:53 am Post subject:

mattcartmell · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 01, 2011 Posts: 78

Im sorry everyone for being a pest!
Im learning a lot here.

DennisN · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:55 am Post subject:

Well, it depends on the state of what the 950 is in. But with luck, it should be possible to at least get it into some sort of working state. I hesitate to indicate how in case you start trying stuff yourself again, but it'll be first recover TT Home (if you've lost that), then recover the working bits of the 950, then recover the maps. But it all depends, so for goodness sake leave it alone.
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mattcartmell · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 01, 2011 Posts: 78

Ok will do. my wife has a tom tom one, do you know if this works in Spain , i think its just england/ireland?

mikealder · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:27 pm Post subject:

Switch your wifes One Third Edition on then tap the sat strength meter (lower right corner of the screen) followed by the version box half way down on the right side of the screen, the resultant page of information will tell you whether its UK&ROI or Western_Europe, if its just UK&ROI it won't show any mapping in Spain - Mike

mattcartmell · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 01, 2011 Posts: 78

Many Thanks Mike, Its a UK version so its going to be roadmaps for now at least.

Andy_P · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 6:44 pm Post subject:

mattcartmell...... WHATEVER YOU DO.... one more vital instruction....

Make sure you have a really good holiday and don't even think about sat-navs until you get home. Driving

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mikealder · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 2:23 pm Post subject:

Just a quick update, I lent Matt my 950 earlier today to take on holiday he gave me his 950 to see if it can be recovered, with no back up it was going to be "fun"
Thankfully all the original folders and files were in the "Trashes" folder (device was used with a MAC) so file recovery was straight forwards, a new Navcore download from the server at TomTom and the device is sat here working quite happily.

Matt, when you get back from your trip give me a shout to swap the units back again - Mike

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:20 pm Post subject:

HeHe... so there is SOME point in having a Mac after all! Twisted Evil

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mattcartmell · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 01, 2011 Posts: 78

Phew! Thanks Mike Much Appreciated, Is it possible to get the American system like the one you loaned me, its great!

mattcartmell · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 01, 2011 Posts: 78

Thanks Andy had a great holiday in Costa Brava, but a sticky start with a 5 hour delay in Manchester and got to Barcelona at 11.30pm so had to wait till 7am for the car hire!!!

mattcartmell · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 01, 2011 Posts: 78

A BIG Thanks to Mike for fixing my TT,
Im Still trying to get the cams on to my TT.
Ive got as far as copy and pasting 128 files into Europe the one that contains cline.dat, cname.dat and then i got to this part that Dennis said:::"When it says you can now disconnect your device do NOT disconnect your device - sit and wait until your 950 boots up and asks again if you wish to connect to computer, this time answer NO. When the map appears on the 950, then you can switch off the 950 and disconnect it from the applemac and then close the computer program TomTom Home"::

But for some reason the cams don't appear on my "warn when near poi" TT? is it jinxed or am i a plonker?!

Andy_P · Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 10:32 pm Post subject:

Dennis is just spelling out the way he does it...
What you need to know is that Windows often LOOKS like it has finished copying stuff to external USB devices, when in fact it hasn't. So if you disconnect before it has really finished, you can corrupt things.

Personally, once I have clicked on "Safely remove hardware" and it has said it's safe to remove, I reckon that's good enough for me.

Now, why are you STILL having problems?

I dunno... But why not just play with ONE set of poi files for now until you've got it working properly.

E.g. take
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.bmp
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.ogg
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30.ov2
and
pocketgps_uk_gatso_30_X2.bmp

and copy those to the map folder for the map you are currently using.
On a 950 it will be called "Europe" or maybe "Western and Central Europe".

See if you can get just that one showing in the menus before getting bogged down with all the rest.

Can you see it in "Show POI on map"? (that's in a different place in the menus to "Warn when near POI")
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DennisN · Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 10:36 pm Post subject:

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