TomTom Europe maps

shown73

I bought a tomtom one, with UK and Ireland pre-installed, of course, on a 128MB SD memory chip, and with a dvd of Europe maps. This is about 1GB of data, so I bought a propriety 2GB SD chip, and went through the motions of copying the dvd contents to the tomtom web page, then installing to my satnav.
Now, when I switch on, the device tells me that there is no card installed, so won't read it, but when explored, the data seems to be all there, all the options that I wanted seem to be on the memory chip, but the device can't seem to see it. Have I done, or not done, something daft? Took ages, and everything seemed to go alright. Any ideas gratefully received!!

mcfisco

The way I'd do it is to create a new folder on your desktop & copy the contents of your 128Mb card into it
Now move any [or all] of the map folders [just the map folders] from the DVD to the new folder - when you have everything you need swap cards in the Tomtom & copy & paste the entire contents of the new folder to the Tomtom card.
You'll probably then need to activate the new maps with the activation code.

philnicandamy

your missing a hidden file/folder...enable the view all files oprion in windows then try & copy across again you'll find this works now, the exact same thing happened to me on my tomtom510 I attempted to copy across new maps etc to a new 2gb SD card and ended up with the exact same error as you.

TRY THIS


For quite some time TomTom devices have been shipped with no software disk, the only copy of the map is the one loaded to your device.

Should things go wrong, or through modifying/ customising your device you accidentally delete some files you must have a backup of the data to recover the situation.

The backup should be done before you do anything to the device, this way you can always recover the unit to the exact same standard it was when purchased.

You can either use your TomTom unit as a card reader or remove the memory card from the device and insert it to a card reader (this method can offer a higher speed).
In the case of the 700 or 910 device you have no option but to connect the device to the computer.

You can use the TomTom Home application to perform the back-up it is a simple as clicking the "Make Backup" button. Or you can use Windows Explorer to achieve the same data backup.

If using Windows Explorer please go to Tools/ Folder Options, select the "View" tab and make sure:

Show hidden files and folders IS Selected
Hide extensions for known file types IS NOT Selected



Create a folder on your PC, where you know you can find it again afterwards, the desktop is great for this, but you might inadvertently delete it if placed there.

Highlight all the files and folders on the TomTom card then right click and select "Copy" from the pop-up box.

Now go to your new folder created above open it, right click and from the pop-up box select "Paste" this will copy all the data from the card to the PC.

Once you have the data on the PC you can copy the backup data to CD of DVD - just in case (PC's do go wrong from time to time, at least with a removable disk you have independent data storage).

Users of the 910 device can use either method, but if using the TomTom Home method make an additional copy of the LoquendoTTS folder using Windows Explorer.

This is required due to the Home application messing up the capital letters in the folder names which results in an unusable part of the backup, basically if you only use TomTom Home and have to install the all important backup your Text To Speech won't work without messing around re-naming folders etc.
The easy way is to take a copy of the LoquendoTTS folder using Windows Explorer.

shown73

Thanks, peeps, I am now in a position to navigate self and OH to anywhere in Western europe! One slight problem is that I haven't a clue how I managed it, but it works. I'll make a note of these answers, though, in case it turns out not to know its Brussels from Berlin, but it seems alright. Battery life is not impressive though, although to be fair it is processing a lot of data, I suppose, compared to, say, a mobile phone.
Anyway, thanks for the help once more, much appreciated.