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- 720 go, TT Rider
On Mon 18 th July, I lent my TT 720 GO, complete with Florida card to my brother in law for his holiday to Orlando scheduled for 21st July. On that same Monday, I showed him how to switch maps from Western Europe to US. I left the unit in US map mode, showing him all the previous Orlando addresses from a previous trip, including the address of his forthcoming villa which I had previously installed. He arrived in Orlando 3 days later, switched on the unit.......no US map. When he went to Switch Maps, no sign of US, only Western Europe, which is in the 720 memory ( not on a card ).
No amount of searching through the unit would reveal the US map. On his return, I placed the card into my PC card reader. Sure enough, in the card menu was the title ' US South East Region' When I clicked on,........'This File is Empty'. Tried the card in a separate card reader....same result. So,.... somewhere between home (UK) and Orlando car hire, card has been wiped. This card and TT device has been to Orlando and back on two previous occasions with no issues.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think SD card data can be erased from the TT device even accidentally, so I can only assume it happened at airport security.
I'm off to Orlando at Christmas, so my new card and data will be staying in my pocket and going through the metal detector rather than the X-ray.
No amount of searching through the unit would reveal the US map. On his return, I placed the card into my PC card reader. Sure enough, in the card menu was the title ' US South East Region' When I clicked on,........'This File is Empty'. Tried the card in a separate card reader....same result. So,.... somewhere between home (UK) and Orlando car hire, card has been wiped. This card and TT device has been to Orlando and back on two previous occasions with no issues.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think SD card data can be erased from the TT device even accidentally, so I can only assume it happened at airport security.
I'm off to Orlando at Christmas, so my new card and data will be staying in my pocket and going through the metal detector rather than the X-ray.