Hard core reference section - Navcore cab files

[canderson]

Speaking of *.cab files, how good are the archives of prior versions at TomTom's web site? Are they maintaining all of them, or would it be a good idea to get those trapped here so they don't disappear while we're not looking? There might be a version they obsolete from their system that actually becomes useful to some user down the road.

I might have known once what the magic decoder ring was for the URL to get all of them from tt.com, but I can't remember it now to check on my own question.

 

[dhn]

Pardon the 'ransom note appearance'

 

[gatorguy]

Not bad David

 

[canderson]

Pardon the 'ransom note appearance'

If you ever want to see your 720 again, you'll follow our instructions -- and NO cops!

OK - so how did you snag that list? I tried once to get a list at that URL via FTP, but no dice. And anything sort of the full URL with filename gets you nada. C'mon, give!

Also - my fears have been confirmed. The 7.221 release for the GO x20 series appears to be missing. Too old?

Oldest I see is 7.481 for x20 models ... and TomTom shows that as for a "Carminat TomTom", whatever the devil that is/was.

 

[mvl]

David stole the list from the dark side.... I recognize the format.

I have been keeping a private, better one. There are more files on the list that people are unaware of. Some of it was my trial&error typing URLs in to my browser.

It's my little secret for now... but to give you a taste.. here's one of the missing ones:
http://download.tomtom.com/sweet/navcore/navcore_8.014.9372.xl2008.cab

 

[dhn]

I didn't steal it, I, uh, borrowed it.

 

[canderson]

Point was -- let's say I am a user who has a need for a specific 3rd party application. We all know that a lot of them have been broken since Navcore 8.XXX, and only a small handful continue to work. If I needed to back up to the 7.XXX code for my 720, I think that would mean 7.221. In any case, I didn't see it in David's list. At least when there are major code branches or major releases, should we keep a repository of the older cab files? And perhaps for recent point releases as well? We all know what happened after 8.302. I would hate to have to depend upon TomTom to keep them all available on their server (and it seems they don't in ALL cases) and at a readily identifiable location like "sweet". That could change at any time.

So the Q is, should we be keeping a base set of them here along with our reference files? Again, the idea is to remain independent of other servers where we can and where it would be a problem if the others ceased to produce for us.

 

[dhn]

I don't pretend to know the logistics of the situation as to how and where we store them but think it's a good idea if we could maintain a core repository, certainly not all those listed in the screenshots.

And, yeah, it's funny that 7.221 isn't shown. That's what I started with when I got my 720 almost 2 years ago.

 

[mvl]

http://download.tomtom.com/sweet/navcore/navcore_7.221.8572.gox20.cab

So far, Tomtom hasn't pulled any navcores off their server that I'm aware of. Version 6.x navcores are still there.

My suspicion is that if we put the navcores up, Tomtom will ask robbyyy to remove them as they're copyrighted. Up to you if you want to try.

 

[dhn]

You may be right about the copyright infringement issue.............

 

[canderson]

You may be right about the copyright infringement issue.............

Could be. OTOH, it would be nice to have a link table here for all of them that exist there. I couldn't copy and paste a link for most of them if my life depended on it, although that DHN list certainly will help.


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