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big_phil555
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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2009 10:04 am    Post subject: Lost My Favourites Reply with quote

Help please Embarassed

Just connected my tomtom one to the pc - home said there is a new map update available, so I downloded it (having backed up the data to my PC beforehand)

I switched on the unit and all of my favourties and pocketgps speed camera warning sounds/distances have disappeared (the locations are still present).

I assume I have done something wrong, but is there any way of reinstalling the above, without having to do it manually

thanks

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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2009 10:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Copy over the MapSettings.cfg file. THis holds the information you are missing.

It is worth saving your favourites as POIs. Then most of these problems are avoided.
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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2009 10:24 am    Post subject: Favorites Reply with quote

no you didnt do anything wrong happens to me every time I get a map update. Pain in the you know what. there have been some posted work arounds but I have tried them all and given up in the end. just resigned to doing them manually

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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2009 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

many thanks for the quick replies Very Happy

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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2009 11:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

FWIW, this is one of the reasons I don't see any point in handing over money for new maps on subscription. You lose your favourites, and you lose the changes you made.

Too many of the TomTom changes made to change their business model are too incomplete at the moment.
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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2009 11:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you copy the MapSettings.cfg file from the old map folder to the new map folder it might work, but if you find the device is re-booting or failing to start up correctly you can try two other tricks:

1/ Connect it to the PC and use Home to rename a favourite, you only need to do this to a single entry and the device should now work (I have not tried this myself, but quite a few chaps on a US based GPS forum have reported it works).

2/ Use POIEdit to convert the MapSettings.cfg file in to a Custom POI file as this method does work and gives you the added benefit of adding phone numbers to each POI as well as not having a 48 location limit - Mike
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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2009 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I copied Mapsettings.cnf over. I have no favourites anyway, they're all pois, but I still had to set up my speed camera warnings again.
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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2009 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks again for the replies Very Happy

I copied the mapsettings file across and my favourites were back on the menu Cool

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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2009 5:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What else is in the mapsettings file?
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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2009 6:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stuff like recent destinations, as I remember.
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PostPosted: Sat May 23, 2009 10:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mikealder wrote:
If you copy the MapSettings.cfg file from the old map folder to the new map folder it might work, but if you find the device is re-booting or failing to start up correctly you can try two other tricks:

1/ Connect it to the PC and use Home to rename a favourite, you only need to do this to a single entry and the device should now work (I have not tried this myself, but quite a few chaps on a US based GPS forum have reported it works).


Just to confirm option 1 does work ok - I tried it copying my v825 mapsettings.cfg file across and it didn't work on my v830 maps (strangely it did work when I went from v815 to v825 maps).

Anyway it was stuck in a reboot loop, so I connected it to my PC and used Home to edit a favourite and then it was ok afterwards.

I think mapsettings.cfg is connected to the poi settings though as all my warnings for the speed camera POI had gone. ie I had edited my speed camera poi wanings, then copied the old magsettings.cfg across to my TT and then my poi warnings were gone again.
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PostPosted: Sat May 23, 2009 10:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mapsettings.cfg contains POI warnings and distances, favourites and recent destinations.

Buy a new map and you get a new .cfg file. You can copy over an older on and it 'may' work but it isn't a given.

MikeA has posted a work-around that allows you to extract the favourites and save them as POIs in a Custom POI Group. A far better solution for addresses and one that can be backed up and copied between maps and devices easily.

The article was published is in the ToP TiPs section of this week's Newsletter and can be found in the FAQ, direct link here.
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