Thread: Happy ending to a bad start

Nothing worse than turning on your sonar units an 10 years worth of waypoints are gone , I lucked out and had had backed the unit up a while back and was able to reload most of them back on the unit.. went back today and ended up catching a mess

All ways a good idea to save a backup copy of way points on SD cards as these sonar units are much like computers.

Boy having them backed up was a good deal....nice fish!

Originally Posted by "G"

Boy having them backed up was a good deal....nice fish!

yea i was in a panic until I got back home and reloaded the waypoints... thinking all the way back what I would do if the sd card was bad or something

Great idea on backing em up ! Congrats on some good catching!

Real nice fish that would look even bigger if your arms were longer.

Thanks for a good post that shows an example of the importance of backing up data.

Thanks for posting this subject. I just put a card in my Helix, now I need to figure out how to put my way points on the card. I'd cry if I lost my waypoints.

Originally Posted by mustfish

Thanks for posting this subject. I just put a card in my Helix, now I need to figure out how to put my way points on the card. I'd cry if I lost my waypoints.

*Press Menu twice to get into the Main Menu System ...
*Cursor over to the Nav tab ...
*Cursor down to Waypoints Routes Tracks ...
*Cursor right to open Waypoint Management ...
*Cursor to highlight "Options" ...
*Cursor right to open options Menu ...
*Cursor to highlight "Select All, and" ...
*Cursor right to open select Menu ...
*Cursor to highlight "Export" ...
*Cursor right to select export ...
*Confirm Yes in green popup ...
*Wait for white popup (Nav data export successful) ...

Rickie

Originally Posted by rnvinc

*Press Menu twice to get into the Main Menu System ...
*Cursor over to the Nav tab ...
*Cursor down to Waypoints Routes Tracks ...
*Cursor right to open Waypoint Management ...
*Cursor to highlight "Options" ...
*Cursor right to open options Menu ...
*Cursor to highlight "Select All, and" ...
*Cursor right to open select Menu ...
*Cursor to highlight "Export" ...
*Cursor right to select export ...
*Confirm Yes in green popup ...
*Wait for white popup (Nav data export successful) ...

Rickie

This post almost saved my tail this afternoon. When we got to the water I powered on my console unit and had no depth readings. All that showed up were the maps. I was about to do a default restore, then I realized I'd lose all my weighpoints (or at least I think I would) so I popped open crappie.com, read your post, and got ready to export all my info, then I remembered that my 16 year old son put the depth finder on today and I felt the back and the plug wasn't pushed in correctly. Once I got it snapped in on both sides, the depth part started working. I still exported my weighpoints to the SD card just so I'd have a back up. Thanks again Rickie!