Coastliner,
What do you not understand.
The jist of this post, kindly explaind by Nitemare is to reduce the time of the install of Ford maps software from a USB stick to your Car System.
When you accept the Download offered by Ford on your up dates page, it is the complete European package to cover Europe maps and languages.
This install can take circa 3hrs, of driving or keeping engine running.
What Nitemare has revealed is that the files you download are divided into different area maps and different languages.
So If you just need Britain, Ireland (uk) maps and English languages, you can delete the other maps and languages from your install.
Possibly cutting the install time to circa 45mins. Most of us do these length trips rather than 3 hrs.
After downloading and unzipping, I assume you open the Sync My Ride folder, and delete the countries and languages you do not need.
If you had say 15 folders in SMR you number them 1-15. in you head or paper. Open the Autoinstall.lst and you will see the same files with a list of item/open numerically down the list.
This is like a shopping list which instructs the computer during the install. At present gives orders to sequentially itemise and then open to install 1-15.
If say you deleted files 4, 5, 6. Maps and 8,9,10. languages from your SMR folder. You now need to amend your shopping list in Autoinstall.lst.
Items 4 5 6 missing so what was item 7 now becomes 4 and 11 now becomes 5 and so on to adjust the rest of the list.
This is my understanding, I am sure Nitemare will say if i have not got it correct. (Please say Y/N ) Nitemare.
It would help if Ford gave the customer a choice of Map areas, and Languages at the point of Download.
Regards
chris
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