FastActivate Discussion Topic

I finally got up to courage to try FastActivate and it appears to have worked as my old One XL is now working with the latest map 855.2934. Many thanks to Pietu.

With that said. I'd like to mention some odd things (to me at least) that happened, but maybe they are normal. Could someone comment on these please?

1. PNGnavigator/ttsystem option created a new PNDnavigator but ttsystem was untouched. Is this normal?

2. I ran FastActivate from the root directory of my old device assuming it was only supposed to operate on that device. I happened to have both devices connected to my PC at the same time and when all was done I found my new deivce would not operate indicating that it's map was not authorized. I successfully recovered the new device using the TT Home Restore function. So my question is, does Fast Activate check for available devices and operate on all devices found?

Once again, many thanks to Pietu for this great tool.

1. Yes, it must just like you say (some navcore contain only ttsystem then fastactivate patch it)

2. Yes, do not use 2 device same time (if it not found bif file it can copy it wrong device)

I am curious. Why did you elect to download USA_Canada_and_Mexico_P 855.2934?

tendriver wrote:I am curious. Why did you elect to download USA_Canada_and_Mexico_P 855.2934?

I'm not exactly sure what you mean because I've never stated here that I downloaded that map, or do you have some way of tracking those that download maps?

But yes, I did download it and that was because of confusion created by other posts talking about using bought maps. But after the long and painful process (6-8 hours over two days) of using FileFactory I thought I'd try using my own map and if it worked I could avoid FileFactory in the future.

rrd101 wrote:[color="red"]I'm not exactly sure what you mean because I've never stated here that I downloaded that map[/color], or do you have some way of tracking those that download maps?

But yes, I did download it and that was because of confusion created by other posts talking about using bought maps. But after the long and painful process (6-8 hours over two days) of using FileFactory I thought I'd try using my own map and if it worked I could avoid FileFactory in the future.

Your signuture sais
6. CurrentMap = [color="red"]USA_Canada_and_Mexico_P[/color]
7. CurrentMapVersion = [color="red"]855.2934[/color]

djc151084 wrote:If you want to check what meta's are included in the keygen's intergrated meta.txt please open extracted meta1.txt when program is open

Hello,

How do you do this please? I have version 1.6 Premium 14.9.10 but I can't see anything about this? How do I look in the meta.txt it uses. I ask because I have some voices and only certain ones worked, I assume some metas are missing but I want to check or indeed for other things in future.

Thanks.

open meta1.txt using NOTEPAD .....

but before you can do that, u mest see the file...

and to see it, just run FastActivate.exe,

click the button named 'Update meta.txt' (u must be connected to internet)

once done dont close FastActivate, leave it open,

and make a search in your PC for --> meta1.txt

it should find it in your TEMP folder....

Hi, thanks for the quick reply.

I had a look (using Windows 7) and the only thing that appears is a file called FastActivateMetaGet.exe. There is nothing else related to it.

When I run that program, I get an error due to no url which I don't know.

Code:


C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp>fastactivatemetaget.exe
File Downloader (Demo Version) - Version 1.12 (build 88.2)
Downloads files from HTTP and FTP servers.
Copyright (c) 2004-2010, Noël Danjou. All rights reserved.

Usage:

  download [<source>] [<login> <password>] [/batch] [/cookies]
        [/credentials:<auth>] [/delete] [/display:<level>] [/move] [/newest]
        [/nocerterror] [/noredirect] [/notime] [/output:<path[\filename]>]
        [/overwrite] [/passive] [/post] [/proxy[:<address>[:<port>]]]
        [/referer:<url>] [/register] [/resume] [/stop] [/subdir]
        [/timeout:delay] [/unescape] [/update[:<condition>]]
        [/useragent:<agent>] [/?]


Where:

  <source>     Fully qualified URL to the resource to download.
               - or -
               Fully or partially qualified path to a text file that holds a
               list of commands to process, if /batch parameter is specified.
  <login>      [optional] Clear-text credentials used to log on to the server.
  <password>


Optional parameters:

  /batch       Processes all the commands listed in the specified source file.
  /cookies     Enables cookies support, may be required for authentication.
  /credentials Encrypted login and password (bypass clear-text credentials).
                Credentials apply to proxy if specified after /proxy parameter.
                <auth> is either the path to the encrypted credential file
                (see logenc.exe module)
               - or -
                "login,password" in clear-text.
  /delete      Deletes local file if a download fails.
  /display     Sets the level of information that will be displayed.
                <level> is either of the following values:
                 none     - no display at all.
                 progress - only displays the progression.
                 normal   - verbose mode (default).
  /move        Downloads the file then deletes it on the server (FTP).
  /newest      Only downloads newest file matching the wildcard (FTP).
  /noredirect  Only displays Location, the redirection is not executed.
  /nocerterror Ignores invalid certificate errors (HTTPS).
  /notime      Ignore file time on server (overrides /update and /newest).
  /output      Specifies a destination path and/or filename.
  /overwrite   Overwrites the output file if it already exists.
  /passive     Uses passive FTP semantics.
  /post        Uses POST (instead of GET) as HTTP verb.
  /proxy       Connects through a proxy.
                <address> is either the host name or the IP address of the
                 proxy (Internet Explorer settings are used if not specified).
  /referer     Specifies a referer URL.
  /register    Opens the registration site in the default browser.
  /resume      Attempts a resume if the file was already partially downloaded.
  /stop        Stops on first error (wildcards/FTP only).
  /subdir      Downloads files from sub-folders as well (FTP).
  /timeout     Specifies the timeout in seconds (default: 0, no timeout).
  /unescape    Converts escape characters (%%xy) in the destination filename.
  /update      Only downloads if local file meet the condition.
                <condition> is either of the following values:
                 date - checks whether local file is older.
                 size - checks whether file sizes are different.
                 both - checks both file dates and sizes (default).
  /useragent   Overrides the default user-agent string with the specified one.
  /utf8        Enables UTF-8 support (FTP).
  /?           Displays this help message.

ERROR: a download source is required.



Aha! Inside there, W7 creates some extra .TMP folders with rather random names such as AB12.tmp. The req'd files can be found in there.

Thanks a lot!

Saxon8 wrote:Hello,

How do you do this please? I have version 1.6 Premium 14.9.10 but I can't see anything about this? How do I look in the meta.txt it uses. I ask because I have some voices and only certain ones worked, I assume some metas are missing but I want to check or indeed for other things in future.

Thanks.

This is the current meta1.txt the program is using [Please Register or Login to download file]

djc151084 wrote:This is the current meta1.txt the program is using [Please Register or Login to download file]

Cheers. It's a great program but as a novice, I'd prefer some sort of 'save meta' [1] button even if it's just hidden on the file menu or something because if it doesn't work, you are left scratching your head as to why it hasn't worked with no pointer as to why (a missing tmeta or whatever). Having to trudge through directories whilst the program is running to locate the file is not very user friendly imo. No offence intended, I appreciate that simplicity is the programs attraction, but still...

[1] and maybe a 'load' to go with it if making changes.

Saxon8 wrote:Cheers. It's a great program but as a novice, I'd prefer some sort of 'save meta' [1] button even if it's just hidden on the file menu or something because if it doesn't work, you are left scratching your head as to why it hasn't worked with no pointer as to why (a missing tmeta or whatever). Having to trudge through directories whilst the program is running to locate the file is not very user friendly imo. No offence intended, I appreciate that simplicity is the programs attraction, but still...

[1] and maybe a 'load' to go with it if making changes.

If the program does not work , there is no meta available for the product yet, because we keep the online meta up top date

Saxon8 wrote:Cheers. It's a great program but as a novice, I'd prefer some sort of 'save meta' [1] button even if it's just hidden on the file menu or something because if it doesn't work, you are left scratching your head as to why it hasn't worked with no pointer as to why (a missing tmeta or whatever). Having to trudge through directories whilst the program is running to locate the file is not very user friendly imo. No offence intended, I appreciate that simplicity is the programs attraction, but still...

[1] and maybe a 'load' to go with it if making changes.

Thanx for your suggestions. This program was designed to be simple & easy for newbies. Adding to it, defeats the whole concept of simplicity.

I tried to patch TTHome 2.7 on a Windows 7 machine with Fastactivate, but the tool -that works great on my maps and radarfiles- reacted witrh a 'did not find TT Home Profile dll' message. I had placed Fastactivate in the TTHome's main directory. I tried three times, always with same message as a result. Perhaps I made a mistake. Any suggestions how it could go working??

tijlovnl wrote:I tried to patch TTHome 2.7 on a Windows 7 machine with Fastactivate, but the tool -that works great on my maps and radarfiles- reacted witrh a 'did not find TT Home Profile dll' message. I had placed Fastactivate in the TTHome's main directory. I tried three times, always with same message as a result. Perhaps I made a mistake. Any suggestions how it could go working??

Just try running the program from your computers desktop not tthomes dir/