Has anyone got a tom-tom 510, 710 ?

[Specialone]

I haven't used my Tom Tom home before as I had some issues getting it to dock, but tried it again last night cos I want to start using TYRE and it needs Tom Tom home to work.
Anyway, it updated my unit, but said there wasn't enough room for the update and suggested some things to save onto my pc to free up some space, I unchecked a few things inc one of my maps as I wanted that to stay in there.

Did the update, but now I only have my GB plus major routes of europe, I have lost my full uk postcode map, which I use all the time for getting to customers houses, which has really pi55ed me off.
I have searched my back up on my pc, everything else is on there but this map, I have even searched my entire HD but found nothing.

Does anyone have a reasonably updated full uk postcode map I can 'lend' ?
As I already own this, it's not copyright infringing or anything.

I don't wanna pay £40 for another map as my old one was fine.

Cheers

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blimey..

No idea, have you tried restoring the machine?

When I ran out of space I shoved an SD card in it as I didn't like the idea of taking stuff off it.

Hope you can sort it..

[Specialone]

blimey..

No idea, have you tried restoring the machine?

When I ran out of space I shoved an SD card in it as I didn't like the idea of taking stuff off it.

Hope you can sort it..

Afaik, the restore will only do settings, not software.

[-Ralph-]

Your welcome to any data you need off my TomTom Rider, but we'd need to know which file in particular you are missing.

Does yours use internal memory, or does it use an SD card? You might be able to buy a bigger SD card and load all your maps, including the ones you are missing onto a new card that has the space for it all. A 4GB SD card should cost nowt in Tesco.

I don't use TomTom Home to use Tyre on my Rider BTW. I save the itinerary file directly from Tyre, onto the 'ITN' folder on my TomTom memory, via the USB cable, it shows up as a removable disk like a USB stick. Don't know if you can do the same or not, the Rider is my only experience of TomTom's.

I'm working at home today, if you need any IT type help, call me. Or pop over for a coffee if you don't have a job on, and you can plug my Rider into your laptop.

[-Ralph-]

PS: I also have an 8GB and a 32GB SD card here you could try restoring to in TomTom Home before going out and buying a new one.

[BernardBikerchick]

hmmm not my strong point but i'm sure you can downloads free maps off web ..... xxx

[Specialone]

Thanks Col, I'm not sure rider maps will work tbh, I normally use my Tomtom the same way and do it through my card reader like you said.
Are your maps in a zip file with loads of files inside?

I used TYRE the other day and it said you needed Tomtom home, when I looked at the file through explorer it showed it as a tyre file not a .itn file so didn't think you could do it that way.

[-Ralph-]

Thanks Col, I'm not sure rider maps will work tbh, I normally use my Tomtom the same way and do it through my card reader like you said.
Are your maps in a zip file with loads of files inside?

I used TYRE the other day and it said you needed Tomtom home, when I looked at the file through explorer it showed it as a tyre file not a .itn file so didn't think you could do it that way.

I've got no idea mate, let me plug it in and I'll post up in a bit.

[-Ralph-]

I have a folder called maps with a file called Europe_West.tlv

And I have a folder called Zip (but this isn't a compressed/zipped folder) with files

great_britain.postal
great_britainpostal.ver
nederland.postal
nederlandpostal.ver

In TYRE I go File -> New and the map page opens. I do my route, I get it to 'Calculate' then in the map window, I go File -> Save As then in the Save As: dropdown menu choose TomTom Itinerary Files, give it a filename, then I save this to the itn folder on my TomTom. In TomTom menu, it's then Itinerary Planning -> Load Itinerary and choose the file name from the list. I don't go near TomTom Home software. I assume you could just save directly to the itn folder on your SD card.

[Specialone]

The great britain postal is the kind of thing I need.

My map folder says zip, then has about 7 files in it.

[-Ralph-]

They are on their way to your blueyonder email address in a zip file. It's an 8.56MB attachment, so you might need to wait a while for it to come through.

[Specialone]

Col, youre a star mate, my GB and main routes of Europe map is 200mb, do not sure the uk one your sending will compress that small tbh, will see :)

[-Ralph-]

I have a Europe_West folder with lots of .dat files in, and that's 1.28GB. I think that's where all my map data actually is.

[-Ralph-]

Glad you posted this anyway, I've just taken a backup so I can restore the data back to how it is today if TomTom Home ever screws it up. I have 2GB internal memory, no SD card slot, and with IQ routes and MapShare it updates every time I plug it in. I already had to choose to delete Eastern Europe the first time I updated it becasue there wasn't space to do the map update, but I understood at the time I could restore it from TomTom Home if I ever need to go there, but can only have East or West on the device at any one time. I'm sure the day will come with the constant map updates when it runs out of space again and deletes something I do use.