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IFD540/440 Touch Screen GPS/NAV/COM : Errors Loading Data Updates

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Author: MysticCobra
Subject: Errors Loading Data Updates
Posted: 06 Mar 2015 at 10:23am

OK, I've had the problem occur for me, too, now.  I'm currently sitting in my cockpit on the ramp waiting for the IFD to update, after calling Jepp to get my account reset so I could redownload the data.

I'm repeating what I did two days ago.

I may have one piece of additional info, though.  In my case, when I did the update 2 days ago, it appeared to go fine.  However, after it was complete, I think I left the USB stick in the bezel when the box power cycled, and without thinking I tapped the Aux rocker button toward the "Update" page again.  

Except the Update tab didn't appear; the screen went dark, and the IFD rebooted.

I didn't notice a problem right away, because it was Mar 4, and apparently my old data was still in place.  I flew my route that day, then was grounded for weather until today.  When I powered on the IFD today, it told me my data was out of data (it reported two things had expired on 3/5, but I don't remember now which two they were.)

I pulled my USB fob out and stuck it in my laptop, and saw the jillions of 1KB files in the directory as others have reported.

I reformatted the USB drive, called Jepp to get them to reset my account, redownloaded the data (actually only had to redownload the Nav data; charts and Obs data were still on the hard drive), recopied to the USB fob, and I'm reprogramming the IFD right now.

NOTE:  Two days ago, when I updated the USB fob with the 3/5 files, I looked at the directory before and after the Jepp data download, and it showed the same 4 files that were there from the first time I did an update.  Before the update, they all had the "Date Created" of Feb 15 and "Date Modified" of Feb 15--makes sense; that was my first-ever update.  After the Jepp download, all 4 files now had the "Date Modified" of 3/4/2015, also as expected.

It was while the fob was in the IFD that the directory changed from those 4 reasonable-looking files to the jillions of 1KB files.

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