transfer of favourites to new device

[exbootneck]

I just bought a new TomTom XXL 540 yesterday. I would lke to be able to load it with all the favourites currently stored on my old device.
can anyone advise me of a quick and painless way of doing this?
are the two systems compatible as the old device runs TT navigator 5?
or does it have to be done the long way by adding them manually?

[mikealder]

Easy way is to locate the MapSettings.cfg file in the map folder on the old TTN5 set up, copy this file to your computer.

Open the MapSettings.cfg using POIEdit which is free to download from Here you can edit the contents as it will contain your favourites as well as recent destinations.

Once happy with the contents of the file choose File/ Save As name the file "_Favourites" (Without the "" but the underscore at the start of the file name is important) make sure you select the file type to ov2

Copy the "_Favourites.ov2" file to the map folder on your new toy, the old favourites can now be accessed by selecting Navigate To/ POI and select _Favourites from the list, by putting the underscore at the start of the file name ensures it will allways be at the top of the list making it easy to find - Mike

[sussamb]

This reminds me why I stick with Garmins, so much easier to play with

[mikealder]

I have been using my Garmin 3790T for over 12 months now, cracking product but their PC interface software is about as good as that offered by TomTom i.e. not very good - Mike

[sussamb]

Not sure what 'software' you're referring to, you can easily manipulate files etc via your PC without any software. You might be referring to Basecamp, which I agree takes some getting used to

It replaced Mapsource, which IMO was a far more intuitive program

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