Copying Favourites no longer works?

Andy_P

The regulars here will know that the way to get your Favourites and Home Location has always been to copy the MapSettings.cfg file from your old map folder into the new one.

However, when I did that a few months ago from a Go300 to my new Go720, the TTS voices and speech recognition stopped working. At first, I wasn't convinced that what I'd done was the problem, but over the last few weeks I've heard a few more people having the same issue.

Now today, I copied a MapSettings.cfg file from a Go700 v6 to the same machine with new maps and v7, and it wouldn't boot past the splash screen. Putting the "proper" version of the file back cured it straight away.

So, it seems the MapSettings.cfg files are not compatible across versions anymore.

TvrForever · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 08, 2006 Posts: 1

Oldboy · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:47 am Post subject:

If you open the old MapSettings File with POIEdit, you should be able to identify the locations of your Favourites.

Just delete everything else there, mainly Recent Destinations, and save as a TT OV2 File. If you see a duplication, you can remove either.

Copy this to your Map Folder as a Favourites POI.
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46jimbo · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 24, 2005 Posts: 185

Or convert your Favourites to POIs.

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:22 pm Post subject:

mpwilson99 · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:14 pm Post subject:

Sadly its not just the favs that go, im sure all my POI sound and distance settings went along with it.

Found that out when i got my TT720 back in August.

It is really bad that they didnt keep this compatability between versions.

Thanks

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:06 pm Post subject:

Think of it from their point of view though... If they invent new functionality (like using the text to speech voices as POI warnings with your own message!) then its a bit hard to keep the file completely compatible with old versions where it didn't exist.

5lab · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 15, 2007 Posts: 18

you seem to have to fire up the tomtom via your computer first - this happened to me when i copied my favourites over - not getting past the splash screen. then i remembered a forum thread from ages ago - connect it back up to your computer, use the control your tt option, and it seems to work after that fine!

Oldboy · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject:

5lab · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 15, 2007 Posts: 18

nah, resetting mine with a pin didnt work, still crashed on startup. once plugged in and started it worked fine.

:P

DennisN · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:07 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject:

Sorry, forgot to add that I'm using the MapSettings.cfg that I brought from my 700, to my 710, to my 720. Just copied the map v705 cfg file to the v710 map tonight.
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