Updating TomTom Maps

[Nick Harvey]

This is a little trick I'll pass on, having taken a very long time yesterday trying to find the solution via Mr G Oogle and his friends.

Did you know that if you buy a new, more up-to-date, map for your TomTom and install it, you lose your stored home location and all your favourite locations?

But there's a work-around!

Before you do the update, connect the TomTom up to the computer and browse to the map folder, probably "United_Kingdom_and_Republic_of_Ireland" for most of us.

Take a copy of the file "MapSettings.cfg" to your computer. This is the file that contains your home and favourite locations.

Then do the map update, as per the TomTom Home instructions. This will leave you with an empty "MapSettings.cfg" file and no home or favourites.

Copy the "MapSettings.cfg" file back from the computer into the new "United_Kingdom_and_Republic_of_Ireland" folder, overwriting the empty one, and all will be well.

After you do your first map update, an extra folder just called "maps" will appear on your TomTom. You can ignore this folder as it just holds the backup of the old map(s) you've replaced. It's the file in the folder with the country name that you need to copy back.

[Pete]

I feel like one of those trolls that come here and dredge up ancient posts, but YAY at this post as that's always bothered me about map updates.

The reason I found this post I should mention was because I couldn't remember whether or not Nick had threatened 'er indoors to record his own voice as a TomTom voice, as obv I'd download this in an instant.

[Nick Harvey]

I did threaten (mentioned in a Comment, I think) but never got round to it.

If nothing else, I need to record an "Oh shit, you've buggered it up again; turn the fucking thing around" instead of the polite version as supplied.

The John Cleese version is slightly more long-winded, but also polite.