No warning for PGPS POIs and camera database.

cloggienl

I was stupid enough to take the SD card out of my 730 while it was switched on. All was working well after I reset the unit, or so I thought. Now, most of the time, non of the warnings set for PGPS POIs and cameras work. I have reloaded the database, re-applied the warnings and updated in TT Home, but to no avail.

Does anyone know what the likely problem is? And, yes, I am stupid. Don't have a back-up either. Hard drive failed a few weeks ago and haven't re-done a back-up.

Andy_P · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:55 pm Post subject:

First thing is to do another back-up NOW, before worrying abut the speed cam warnings. Your map is the most important thing... lose that and you're looking at around £50 for a new one because no-one can help you restore it. But you'll need to back-up TWICE - once ofr the internal memory and once for the SD card.

You see, I'm interested in what is on this SD card. The Go730 came with internal memory, which contained all the map info, operating software etc.
But recent maps may well be too large for the internal memory, so you may have downloaded a map update to an SD card.

So... any idea what you STILL have on internal, and what is now on the card? You can use Windows Explorer to check and report back.

Basically, I'm suspecting you still have an old map on the internal memory and are installing the PGPSW files into that map folder, rather than into the new on on the SD card.

Let us know what you find, and it might all be obvious to you where you've going wrong. If not, we can advise better once we have that extra info.
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GerryC · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:42 pm Post subject:

When doing the backup, use Windows Explorer and do full copy/paste onto your PC. DO NOT USE TOMTOM HOME.

After that, answer Andy's questions so we know what you've got.
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cloggienl · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:35 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your replies guys, I have the old Western and Central Europe 2GB map on the internal drive and the latest complete Europe map on a 4GB SD card.

I have the PGPSW files in both map files.

But I have sorted the problem. I deleted mapsettings.cfg and spent a while re-setting all the warnings. That is another hour I don't get back :-)

It looks like, by taking out the SD card while the TomTom is switched on corrupts the mapsettings.cfg file...

Now all fully backed up again on external hard drive.

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:10 pm Post subject:

Well done!
That cursed MapSettings.cfg again!

What I do now is (as well as keeping backups on the PC at home) I also keep a copy of MapSettings.cfg on the root of the TomTom storage (it's just ignored there).
That way, if it gets corrupted and loses all my POI warning settings again while I'm out and about, so long as I can get access to a PC to move the file, I can pop it back into the map folder and be up and running again.
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cloggienl · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:22 pm Post subject:

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