3 minutes ago, MartiniB said:

 

So many separate threads,
by my vision, answers on problems must live in one!
  

 

HNY!!!

 

You get a bit of that on SeatCupra. A poster puts the map file links up that were posted months ago, it happens. Self appointed experts. They don't get that the files are interchangeable.

 

I tend to stick to 7zip with the drag and drop. The default file manager right click I find slower than 7zip which is the VW recommended one. Unzipping direct to the SD or USB I find takes much longer due to the bus traffic but some want to squabble about that as well. To HD / SSD then big chunks of data traffic to the peripheral rather than n'th many handshakes on the bus if you do away with the intermediate stage. Depends on the bus speed ofcourse.

 

Skoda folk always plough their own furrow and take the high road 😉. Practical but not always right.

 

Trying to update maps on Columbus system using Skoda map update portal. Offered zip file HIGH2_P390_EU_20448.ZIP. SIZE 15.67GB. Very slow download, gets to 5.42GB & will go any further. Tried various times of day. Internet is working fine. 
Any thoughts?

Try the VW one. All the same materiel compatible between the two and Seat as well.

THX

-> next 2025-2026

Having finally managed to download last SatNav for my Columbus system. Unzipped & copied the contents onto a 64g sd card formated as exFat, update failed to load. Tried all help I could find without success.so in desperation tried using 32g sd card ready formated as fat32. It worked first time without any problem.

Who knows why it would not work with 64g sd card, but I don’t care I have got the update done.

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I stuck with the 32gb sd card in Fat32. After vag stopped the support of the mib1 component in the update you didn't need the 64gb card since it stopped outgrowing the 32 gb card... however if you had some 32 gb SD cards that combined release would just fit on. MartiniB was like me when some started moaning and we didn't have an issue with our SDs 32gb cards. Aldi ones I inherited 😉... nothing fancy.

Probably the Format command in Windows was playing up in exFat. Windows 10/11 did have a bug at one stage that messed up the sector size by not retaining it in a format. Probably something like that happened. Think that is what was messing up mib2 standard map cards that got zonked. I have certainly seen one release of Windows defaulting the sector size to the max it can.