Backing up myguide3100 files

[Buffdaddy]

Does anyone who owns a myguide 3100 gps device know how to back up all the files.I want to do this before I attempt loading the speedcam database especially as I not experienced with loading software on any kind of devices.

A step by step guide would be helpful. If I was to backup files to an sd card, what size memory card will I need.


Thanks

[DennisN]

Do you know how to use Windows Explorer?
Are you able to connect your device to your PC?
Have you got a SD Card reader on the PC?
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[Buffdaddy]

I am not experienced at using Windows Explorer
However, I am able to connect my device to a PC and I also have an SD card reader.

Where do I go from here.

[DennisN]

[DennisN]

I might have guessed you were a softy pants southerner!!
Here we go.

FIRST RULE IS - The following guidance is done from reference to my own computer, which is quite possibly different from yours. If any of the instructions don't do what I've said, STOP IMMEDIATELY and give up on it. The way to stop is simply go to the bottom left of your screen and click START, TURN OFF COMPUTER and let it all close down - when it's doing so, you may get windows saying if you close "this", you may lose any work and you'll have to say OK to that. It sounds alarming, and it's best avoided of course, but if you haven't got the experience, it's safer than pressing on and properly cocking up everything. I'm sending you a PM with my mobile phone number - don't pester me, but I'll help in this situation if I can.

SECOND RULE IS - try to print this lot off and then as you go through it, make marks (and comments if you like) to show where you are and how it's going, or what's different. Then we can get it back together if you have to shut it down.

To use Windows Explorer :-

Click (bottom left of your PC screen) START, then slide (don't click) your cursor over the entry All Programs, just above it and hold (but don't click) it there and a list will pop up. Slide (not click) your cursor across, into and up that list to Accessories and hold there and another list will appear. Slide (not click) your cursor across, into and down that list to Windows Explorer and at last (!) Click it.

You'll get a nice window, with a list on the left. At the top of the window, there is a menu including the word Tools - click on Tools and you'll get a drop down list including Folder Options, Click on that. You'll get a window entitled Folder Options, at the top of which are two tabs - General and View. Click on View. In the list which appears is an entry "Hidden files and folders, with two choices - click on the round "button" alongside "Show hidden files and folders" to get a blob in it. A line or so lower down, is another line "Hide extensions for known file types", with a box alongside it which has probably got a tick in it. If it does have a tick, click it and make the tick disappear. At the bottom of the window, click on "Apply", then click on OK.

Take your SD card which we want to back up, and stick it into your card reader.

Now, on the screen in the list on the left, one item is My Computer, with a + sign to the left of it. Click on the plus sign and you'll see another longer list. Probably the first one is "Local Disk (C". Click on that name "Local Disk (C", then at the top of your screen, click on "File", slide your cursor down to "New", then across to and click on "Folder". There may be something blinking away a bit, but never mind that, simply type "MyGuideBackup" BUT without quotation marks or underlines and then press your Enter key.

Somewhere down the list on left of screen is an entry which refers to the SD card you've just put in. Mine's probably different, but in mine it is "Removable Disk (F", except that when I put an SD card in there, it calls itself something understandable like perhaps (How I HOPE!!) "MyGuide (F"

You now need to click on that entry and hopefully it will open up a bit and in the larger window on your screen to the right of the list we've just gone down, there will be a list of files and whatevers.
Click (careful - only once) on the first one and it will become highlighted. Now go to the top of your screen and click on "Edit", then on "Select All" and ALL the files and whatevers in that right side window will become highlighted. Now Click on Edit again, then click on Copy.

Now go back up the left screen list, back to click on that Local Disk (C where you will see your new entry "MyGuideBackup", click on that new entry. Now (top of screen) click on "Edit", then on "Paste". You will then see a nice graphical window of lotsa things popping across from somewhere to somewhere - that's all your SD card files being copied onto your PC to somewhere safe.

Now go back down to that MyGuide (F and click it with the right mouse button and you'll get a drop down list, where you (left) click on "Eject". The name "MyGuide (F" will hopefully change to "Removable Disk (F and you can now take your SD card out of the reader.

You have just made a backup copy of your SD card. Smile to yourself.
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[Buffdaddy]

DennisN,

You have been most helpful. I am now summing up the courage to follow your very detailed instructions. I will let you know how I get on.



Thanks once again

[JF_1976]

Sorry - wrong forum! .

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