newbie help please

Paultom · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Posts: 5

hi first of all what a great site

the problem i have is i have a tomtom go 300 with application 5.410 on it i have just tried to update it to version 6.520 no prob that worked ok the problem is i have lost all my saved locations is there any way of keeping these as well as having version 6.520

Oldboy · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:21 pm Post subject:

It all depends on how you were using the 'saved locations'.

Did you have them saved as Favourites?

Did you update your Map at the same time?

Which Version Map are you using at present?

Also have you done a Backup before upgrading?

As TT changed the system with the V6 Maps it will help us to know what you actually have on the Device.

If you are using Favourites then the File that holds the data is the .cfg File in the Map Folder. In V5 this changed it's name with the different Maps but in V6 it is now called MapSettings.cfg

Now you see why we need to know about your Device. Smile

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TT 910 V7.903: Europe Map v1045
TT Via 135 App 12.075: Europe Map v1120

Paultom · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Posts: 5

hi yes they are saved in favorites

no i didn't update the map just the tomtom application ver 6.520

map great britain map v605

i did do a backup

Oldboy · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:55 pm Post subject:

In that case Favourites should be in the MapSetting.cfg File (in the Map Folder). You should not have lost this by just updating the software.

But if you have, just try copying the .cfg File from the Backup.
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TT 910 V7.903: Europe Map v1045
TT Via 135 App 12.075: Europe Map v1120

Paultom · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Posts: 5

cant find that file the only one .cfg file i can find is in great britain map tried replacing that one with the same file from backup it still not working Sad

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject:

On your old software the file was was called '{yourmapfoldername}.cfg', so you will need to find that one (it will be called something like 'Great_Britain-Map.cfg' (note the particular underscores and hyphens too!).
Copy it across from your backup and then re-name it to 'MapSettings.cfg'.

RQ · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:26 am Post subject:

Just a thought.

Why not make a POI out of your favourites - you can add phone numbers as well (not useful on the 300 - I know). The problem with favourites is that it only stores 20? locations - put an extra one in and the last in the list is lost. POIs can store 000's of locations.
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TT1v3 6.560 1713 UK&NI 660.1199
TTG700 6.520 1387 MoWE 660.1219

Paultom · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Posts: 5

i just tried renaming the file then copying it to the tt still got no favorites with the new version Sad

any other ideas

Paultom · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Posts: 5

yippee done it i put v6 on then deleted the great britain map file and replaced it with the backup file. now got all my favorites working with V6.

thanks for the help no doubt i will be back at some point with another problem

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