Whare are the favorites stored ?

cdelecole · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 05, 2005 Posts: 185

I'd like to know where my favorites are stored ?
Is it in the <Country> directory, or somewhere else ?

What If I use BENELUX and FRANCE on the same SD card ?
Do I have to copy my POI's in both directories ?

What about the favorites ?

rkm_hm · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:26 pm Post subject:

I don't know where Favourites are stored - and will be interested to see whether anyone else knows the answer.

As far as POI's are concerned, do you have POI files which span multiple countries? If so, with the possible exception of using the Major Roads of Europe (MRE) maps, they're taking up more space than they need to. When you are using the France map, any POIs outside the geographical area of that map don't have any meaning. So it makes sense to organise your POIs into country files (maybe with a bit of overlap near the borders) - and put the France POIs in the France map folder, and likewise with Lux etc.

charlesn · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:26 am Post subject:

If it's of any use/interest to anyone, I've stopped using the Favourites function for its intended purpose.

I have maps for MRE and the 16 countries of Western Europe (GB, Germany, France, etc.).
In each national folder (e.g. Germany) I have instead set up a POI called "Favourites D E M", "Favourites G B P", "Favourites D K K", etc. It makes it more flexible for editing than GO's own Favourites function - which I now use only for quickly grabbing an on-the-spot Lat/Long position.

C

TomK · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:50 am Post subject:

Link to thread where you will see the answer you require from ZZBeard. I've done this and it works

http://www.expansys.com/forumthread.asp?code=TOMTOMGO&thread=513&man=TOMTO

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rkm_hm · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:56 pm Post subject:

TomK · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:16 pm Post subject:

RKM_HM

As stated .."It worked for me"

If you choose to question the correctness of this statement then that is up to you.

I'll just not bother replying in the future.

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cdelecole · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 05, 2005 Posts: 185

So we 're not talking about POI's here, that we know are stored in the <country> directory ... but well talking about eh Preferences.
Any idea ?

rkm_hm · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:44 pm Post subject:

TomK · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:16 pm Post subject:

The question asked was

ZZBeard · Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:35 am Post subject: What's in the .cfg file?

Hello Roger

You're probably right in that the .cfg file seems to contain Preferences AND Favourites AND Recent destinations. My recommendation to use this file to recover Favourites was based solely on the fact that when I updated my own GB map from the CD, I lost ALL my customisation settings, and when I re-used this file, I got them ALL back!

In particular I'd noticed that the "Home" setting was right there in the beginning of the file when I looked at it in WordPad. Also, it's the only file that contains enough changing data to represent ongoing usage. When you change maps - if you've installed the MRE you'll know - you lose your previous "Home" setting until you re-establish it. In my case, the street where Home is, is NOT shown by the MRE map!

It is only as a friendly recommendation that I've offered this tip...

David

rkm_hm · Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:16 am Post subject:

Yes, it is looking increasingly likely that this is the file containing all the types of dynamic data which you mention. When I looked inside mine, I could see mainly recent destinations - but the rest is probably there, not necessarily in ascii format.

In another thread someone wanted to delete the list of recent destinations in case it contained anything incriminating. It looks like this is the file to zap!

However, zapping it could lose you your home and favourites settings too!

Roger

lbendlin · Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 5:03 am Post subject:

What you have to do is set all your preferences and favourites, save a copy of the file , and then use it for navigation. Should you now wish to remove the recent destinations then you only need to copy the original file back.

I would aslo recommend - as has been stated here - to put your favourites into a POI file instead.
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