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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: steelebob on January 05, 2013, 11:16:22 AM

Title: Backing up to Sd card
Post by: steelebob on January 05, 2013, 11:16:22 AM

I have an 898 and can't find a years worth of waypoints on my SD card. The points do come up on my unit while I'm fishing. I thought that every time you mark a point it automatically was stored to the SD card.

Title: Re: Backing up to Sd card
Post by: sonar2000 on January 05, 2013, 02:02:33 PM

I thought that the information was stored on the unit and "exported" to the sd card by menu selection..I think a snapshot is written to the card but waypoints, nav data has to be exported..
chuck

Title: Re: Backing up to Sd card
Post by: TroyBoy30 on January 06, 2013, 08:02:43 AM

New waypoints are written to the unit, not the card. You have to export if you want a backup

Title: Re: Backing up to Sd card
Post by: Humminbird_Greg on January 09, 2013, 02:41:26 PM

These guys are correct:
Waypoints, Routes and Tracks are internal in the unit unless you Export a copy of them to the memory card.
Screen Snapshots and Sonar Recordings are only written to the memory card.

Title: Re: Backing up to Sd card
Post by: sonar2000 on January 10, 2013, 06:18:14 PM

HMMMMMM.....HB could save some memory is they wrote this info to a sd card if the users so desired by putting in a card. . Maybe free up some processing area..

Chuck

Title: Re: Backing up to Sd card
Post by: Humminbird_Greg on January 11, 2013, 11:17:04 AM

And Customers could lose all of those valuable waypoints when their memory cards failed…

Title: Re: Backing up to Sd card
Post by: sonar2000 on January 11, 2013, 02:02:24 PM

Which is why we backup computer data. HB is a computer and needs to be given the same respect as your laptop.

We are well beyond nuts and bolts today for the most part..
Chuck