Tomtom on Vista

[kevin63]

When I plug my Tomtom in, Vista won't recognise it's plugged in, any ideas.

[Globulator]

Use XP

HTH

[kevin63]

Yes it work on my computer running XP but I wanted to crack it on my Vista one as a matter of pride, like not letting Vista get the better of me, anyway I have now done it, the loading up of the drivers was the problem and what a crap way of doing it, you stop with your XP, you are far better off.

[Globulator]

Congrats on getting it working!

From http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2170276,00.as...

PC Mag said:

I could go on and on about the lack of drivers, the bizarre wake-up rituals, the strange and nonreproducible system quirks, and more. But I won't bore you with the details. The upshot is that even after nine months, Vista just ain't cutting it. I definitely gave Microsoft too much of a free pass on this operating system: I expected it to get the kinks worked out more quickly. Boy, was I fooled! If Microsoft can't get Vista working, I might just do the unthinkable: I might move to Linux.

IIRC TomTom runs Linux inside, it's a shame the product itself it so tied to XP. I have a whole XP laptop that I only use for the TomTom updates and the odd bit of IE6 compatibility testing, then I run back to the sanity of Apple or Linux

I backed up my TomTom910 (before it was sent back) as a USB device on the Apple however, using:

rsync -avS --progress /Volumes/TomTom\ Disk/ ~/tomtom910-backup

which seemed to work fine. On the TomTom however you have to be careful if using the Apple Finder to add files (mp3s, voices etc) as it drops odd hidden files beginning with ._ or ., that prevent the TomTom from working properly, so I just use the command line from Terminal.

To clear up a tomtom from an Apple Finders visit, just type something like

find /Volumes/TomTom\ Disk/ -name "._*" -exec rm {} \;
find /Volumes/TomTom\ Disk/ -name .DS_Store -exec rm {} \;
find /Volumes/TomTom\ Disk/ -name .Trashes -exec rm -rf {} \;

This is all a bit non-Apple and is both the Finder's fault for dropping them and TomTom's fault for not ignoring them. I suspect there is a better way!

[timskipper]

I'm running Vista, plugged in my TomTom 710 after I upgraded from XP and it just worked. <shrug>

But then I've not had any issues with Vista in general.

[Frederick]

sometimes a pin in the reset hole works - my old 700 flat out refused to work with tomtom home, windows or owt although it was fully functional for the rest of the time... a pin-based reset and it worked