Problem upgrading to version 3 - please help

[ukfaffa]

I have attempted to upgrade to version 3 from version 2 and had alot of problems with the setup crashing. I apear to have eventually installed the upgrade and then removed the orginal version 2 maps and installed the maps from the upgrade CD.

I now am getting the message "no maps found, please install and activate an orginal TomTom Navigator 2 map first.

I do not understand how to proceed ?????

I am going away next week and would like to use the SATNAV.

[lbendlin]

As far as I understand there is no need to upgrade. You can simply wipe out the version 2 completely, then do a soft reset, and then install the version 3. The activation information should pop up when you first access version 3.
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[DavidW]

It sounds like you may be another victim of TomTom Wizard. This problem is particularly frustrating as it seems to stem from a lack of agreement within TomTom's development team.

I've never managed to get TomTom Wizard to work. Other posters on the forum have indicated that TomTom Wizard seems to expect your maps to be in the My Documents folder, even on a storage card. Historically, Navigator maps have gone in the root directory of a storage card - and that's where the TomTom Navigator 3 installer on my CD-ROM puts them if you tell it to install the maps directly to a card reader.


If you select the TomTom Navigator option in your Start Menu, does that work? If so, consider uninstalling TomTom Wizard - you simply lose the program that isn't working for you and the Today screen plugin that uses an inordinate amount of precious Today screen space to launch one program (if, like me, you want to launch programs from your Today screen, consider Spb's Pocket Plus 2.0, or possibly - though I regard it as inferior - Omega One's Battery Pack Pro). In return, you get a precious few hundred KBytes of memory back.


The only other wrinkle with starting Navigator is that if you move the TomTom Navigator shortcut out of the Start Menu (surely it's the user's right to decide where he or she wants in his/her Start Menu), the Navigator program tends to delete the shortcut.

There's various ways to work round this. Renaming the shortcut might work, though I haven't tried this. I tend to launch Navigator from GPSAssist 2 anyway, which doesn't need this shortcut. If I do want to launch Navigator without GPSAssist, I use the Navigator icon on my Spb's Pocket Plus' Today screen plugin to do so. If you configure Pocket Plus or other Today screen program launchers using a custom link to the .exe file, it doesn't matter if the shortcut disappears.

If you lose the shortcut and want it back, simply copy TomTom Navigator.lnk from \Program Files\Navigator to \Windows\Start Menu.



David

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