Updating Camera Database using My Drive Connect

Colourise · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 22, 2008 Posts: 14

Hi
I should be grateful for a little help with updating the camera data base using My Drive Connect.

Last week I purchased a Tomtom Start 25 and successfully installed, for the first time on this unit, the Pocket GPSWorld camera data base. I downloaded UK - Speed Zoned Complete, which gives me 99 files.

Today I downloaded the latest updated data base and unzipped it for use with the Start25.

The unzipping, again, gives me 99 files.

When I add the POI I select the 99 files on my computer which are then shown in the Browse window of My Drive Connect.
When I Click install I get a message saying “This file already exists on my device and do I want to overwrite it.
However it does not mention which file it is referring to or whether it is referring to all the files.
There is no facility to “Copy and replace” all the 99 files as there was when using Tomtom Home software.(Which was done via Windows explorer)
I am doing something wrong or do I have to overwrite each file as a separate action?

Is it OK to only update the OV2 files or should the bmp files be updated too?

Thanks

Anita · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 9:11 pm Post subject:

On my Via 135, which I believe is the same as the Start 25 but has bluetooth, after the initial installation I have only ever updated the OV2 files.

When it says the file already exists I always allow it to be overwritten and have had no problems.
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Anita
TomTom VIA 135 - App 12.075
UK map 1125.12264
Samsung Galaxy S21

Colourise · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 22, 2008 Posts: 14

Thank you for the quick reply and the information regarding the OV2 files.

I am still at a slight loss as to the procedure for the overwriting of 33 separate OV2 files.

If I update just the OV2 files, of which there are 33, do I need to carry out the overwrite procedure 33 times, or does My Drive Connect deal with all 33 files in one go so that choosing “overwrite file”, will in fact overwrite all 33 files?

The “file copy message” refers to file, in the singular and not files in the plural even though all the 33 files have been selected to be overwritten.

Apologies for my being a bit dim on this but I am used to using TomtomHome software and MyDrive Connect is completely new to me.

Anita · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 9:38 am Post subject:

I agree it's not very clear, but I assume MyDrive is referring to a file it has created containing all of the updates you've selected.

Selecting all the ov2 files that you want to transfer from your pc to the TomTom at once and allowing the existing file to be overwritten updates all of the cameras.
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Anita
TomTom VIA 135 - App 12.075
UK map 1125.12264
Samsung Galaxy S21

Colourise · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 22, 2008 Posts: 14

Thank you for the reply and for the clarification of what MyDrive Connect is doing.

I will continue perfoming future updates along those lines.

Thanks once again

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