by Smuglin_Peanuts » Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:20 pm
Hi there, I’m new and a bit of a simpleton at this; kinda. Either way I seem to be having a problem.
I have an oldish, Tomtom1XL pretty much got it as soon as it came out, running just UK maps.
Anyway, in the past I’ve had to buy/install my voices the proper way (or the easy way, copy and paste). Anyway was looking into getting something a bit better, so I grabbed the spongebob one off a thread on this site, thought it would be good for a laugh. Anyway, I shove it on, and then noted I had to use this .exe to install it properly, so I’ve placed it in the root dir as stated, I ran it, (not sure it did anything, but it did produce some confusing meta files), anyway click the "update voices/whatever" button, it did something and I turned off the tomtom and turned it back on.
Oh my! So it's removed Burt Reynolds from my list of available voices, hmms, but it kept John Cleese. It didn't seem to do anything to the spongebob, install or patch or anything, so that doesn't work on my tomtom. HOWEVER! If I start my tomtom home, and have the device plugged in, the application recognizes that Burt Reynolds is installed, and even that spongebob is too, I even backed them up onto the computer. However my tomtom will not use them, doesn’t even show up on my device. I tried to reinstall them from the computer onto the device, no go, nothing happened no change.
What am I doing wrong here? I'm not sure I understand this application all too well, it's very confusing for such a simple app, I mean, what on earth is a meta file? I guess it’s just data, but I’m worried that updating that file anymore will miff more stuff up.
Any ideas? sorry to waffle on!