Backing up One 130 to thumb drive

Just did my first backup on my new ONE 130, getting ready to buy and
download the map for Australia. But... I recall somewhere, reading about
how to set up to backup and restore to a thumb drive instead of the HDD.
I'll be heading to Oz in a few weeks, but have need for the USA map
before flying out. I'll be stopping at my brother's before heading to
the airport, wanted to do the swap there. But now I can't remember where
I found the instructions for setting up a flash drive. I've looked
through the PDF manual that came with it, as well as searching TomTom
support trying several search strings, but cannot find the info.

Can I just copy all the TomTom data folders to the thumb drive and
change where it looks for them? I do recall from the directions I read,
that it didn't seem the most intuitive process. Given how maps are
locked to the device, and not knowing just how this is accomplished, I'm
reluctant to mess around with this without having some idea what I'm doing.

Thanks,

Jon

On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:35:11 -0800, Jon Anderson


Yup, u can copy all the data to any drive u wish on pc, either
manually OR by using TomTom Home .. there an option in there somewhere
to copy to pc

Jon Anderson wrote:

That is hwo I do it. I just plug in my Tomtom, go to the TomTom "drive"
and copy everything I find there to somewhere else. However I do have
one with an SD card, so what I also do is just copy all the content from
that and put it on an other SD card and overwrite that.

houghi
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For a backup:
Use Windows Explorer and copy the entire TT to your flash drive.
TT Home does not make a complete backup; navcore (OS) is not copied. If you
copy F: (or whatever is shown as your TT drive in WE) to your flash drive
(or PC) you will have a fully restorable copy.

Keith

Keith wrote:


Thanks all, but this looks like the ticket. So I could put the whole
thing with my USA map in a folder called USA, set up with the Australia
map, and repeat putting everything an Aus folder?

TomTom says that newly purchased maps MUST be backed up before they can
be reloaded again. Is that just when using the HOME software, or is
there something that is set during the backup process that cements
validation of the map to the particular device?

If it's just as you describe, that's a piece of cake!

Thank you,

Jon