Transfering Favourites and Registering new 720

[Ballistix]

Hi guys, just bought the 720 and it "looks" very nice.

I want to transfer over my favourites and, erm, it's pants I can't! Any ideas? I'm happy to edit on the old TomTom One and retype the postcode in etc...but I can't even do that, won't let me edit the old ones! What a pile...anyone know how to do this?

Also, how do you register your new 720 with TomTom? There isn't a card and it won't accept the serial number on the bottom of the unit?! Hope someone can advise!

Regards,
TT

[Andy_P]

Favourites are stored in "MapSettings.cfg" in your map folder.
Copying that from one machine to the other usually works, but if you move from an old machine to one with Text to speech voices (like the 720) it MIGHT mess up the voices or the voice recognition.
In that case the safest way is:

Its a manual process so depending how many favourites you have, it will take a little bit of time.
1 ) First, create a new POI category on the old machine (Preferences / Manage POI / Add POI category ). Call it "Favs" or whatever you like.
2 ) Then go Preferences / Manage POI / Add POI / Favourite / and select your first favourite.
3 ) Repeat step 2 for each of you favourites.

The POI file will be found in your map folder, called "Favs.ov2" (if that's what you called it). Just copy that file (and its matching .bmp icon file) to your new machine's map folder and enable it in the manage POI menu.

All registration and map activation is now done through TT 'Home' and your TT account which is linked to your email address.

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