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Antoeknee Lifetime Member
Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Posts: 267
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 1:50 am Post subject: Maintaining 2 devices |
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Doing a search but not finding the info I need at the moment. Proably me not using right criteria.
Anyway just in case I don't have any more luck:
I've just bought a 550 Live and currently have a TT500.
My better half wants to have the 500 for her use so I need to maintain both devices. Now if I recall correctly there are some issues with this.
Do I need to register the new device with a different email address? It's not a problem if this is the case.
Can both devices be managed through the same copy of Home on 1 PC? Or would it be be better to do a fresh install on another computer?
If there are any other possible issues I'd appreciate some info. |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 2:17 am Post subject: |
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Yes, you MUST use a different email address for the second machine (although it doesn't ACTUALLY need to be a real address - fred.bloggs@nowhere.com would work fine.
But once you have registered the address on the TT website and entered it on the TomTom itself, then there is absolutely no problem with using both of them with Home on the same PC.
I have got about 5 or 6 TomToms and I connect and update them all on the same installation of Home on the same PC.
In fact, one of the things that works very well is that when you connect a particular machine, Home will read the account name from the device and will log you in with the correct name automatically. |
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Antoeknee Lifetime Member
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Andy, thought I'd remembered the registration issue. I've plenty of addresses no problem using a real one.
Its helpful that multiple devices can be managed through one instance of Home.
Not unpacked the 550 yet but might do tonight. Presumably you can just do full backup as per normal through My Computer? I've got all the options set to show hidden files etc. as this was how I backed up the TT500.
Will be interesting to see the differences versus the 500 which has been very reliable in te time I've had it. Just seems to be showing its age now.
Just have to setup the 550 with PGPS cameras and a few of the favs I have. |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, you can still do a full backup in the normal way through 'My Computer' (aka Windows Explorer). It's only the recent Go1000/1005 and Via models where you can't.
PGPSW camera install (or any other POI files you may have) is all done exactly as you're used to as well.
The easiest way to copy any Favourites across is to convert them into another user-POI category.
If you haven't got too many, you can do that manually on the Browse map page of the old 500 - Find Favourite / Save as POI, for each one.
If you've got a lot, you can use the program 'POIEdit' to open the MapSettings.cfg file from the map folder of the 500 and then pick the locations you want to save as a new .ov2 POI file. |
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Antoeknee Lifetime Member
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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Great info as usual.
Many thanks Andy |
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