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devlino
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 Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject: clearing tomtom to sell |
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my friends just got a company bmw with sat nav / bluetooth etc so hes gonna be selling his tomtom 500 but b4 he ebays it he wants to get rid of his phone nos and recent destinations etc before hand,hes not very techie and he lives too far away for me to have a fiddle with it,im not sure about 500s as i have an old classic,is there a simple way,if you restore settings what does that do and how does he do it
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Oldboy
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| Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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On the last page of Change Preferences there is a Reset Factory Defaults icon. I don't know if this will clear all the details, or not.
To get rid of recent destinations, just delete the .cfg file in the Map Folder.
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Tumbleweed
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject: Clearing Go |
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| Oldboy wrote: | On the last page of Change Preferences there is a Reset Factory Defaults icon. I don't know if this will clear all the details, or not.
To get rid of recent destinations, just delete the .cfg file in the Map Folder. |
It also depends how paranoid the friend is, deleting things will be fine for the casual new user but not for someone who actually wanted to look for iold phone numbers and destinations, because the data will still be there on the memory card, just not visible (until its overwritten).
If he wants to see it *really* gone he'll have to put the SD card in a reader or connect it to his PC and run an 'eraser' program on it. Or just delete the files, then fill up the card with some files of junk data, then delete those files again. Either would do..but only necessary for the paranoid :-)
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And he does realise that his all singing all dancing factory fit £2000+ BMW Nav System won't have Safety Cameras, may not have 7 Digit Postcodes and more besides?
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