One of those Catch 22 situations

Anyone remember that film? It’s one that haunts me.

Well yesterday evening I decided to update the maps for my TomTom GO GPS and once paid I downloaded them into the new TomTom Home Application. It went smoothly (but slowly as it was over 900Mb of maps of Western Europe). I then backed up the SD card (slowly as that was a 1Gb card).

I then deleted all but one map but still didn’t have enough space to install the new map. When I tried to delete the remaining map I had a system message telling me that the card had to have at least one map and refused to delete it. Doh!

What to do? I needed the space and it wouldn’t let me delete the map in order to have sufficient space to install the new one. A perfect Catch 22 situation right?

I then proceeded to install everything onto a newly formatted 1Gb SD card and that seemed to work. I ejected the TomTom’s USB connection (the cause of the slow transfers by the way) and then the screen went all backlighted on me and refused to turn itself off. When I reconnected it to the PC it was no longer recognized. Grrr.

I really thought I was jinxed (I’m being polite!) Then I turned the TomTom over and saw a reset hole. A pin later and the TomTom resetted and all was well.

Oof!