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james23_uk Occasional Visitor
Joined: Sep 21, 2005 Posts: 29
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:28 pm Post subject: Folders for Favourites? |
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I dont suppose it's possible to operate a folder system on my tomtom for my favourites. eg all my friend houses in on efolder and all my work POIs in another? |
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rkm_hm Frequent Visitor
Joined: Nov 28, 2004 Posts: 532 Location: Warwick, UK
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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You suppose correctly!
Favourites - along with other personal settings - are held in a file called xxx.cfg in the map folder, where xxx is the name of the map in question - e.g. Great-Britain-Map
If you delete or rename the .cfg file, the system will create a new one. So I suppose that you could rename the file after creating all your personal favourites - and then load your work favourites into the new version. The problem is that you'd have to connect to a PC each time you wanted to use the other set.
A better solution would be to forget about Favourites per se - and just use POIs. You can then one POI file which holds locations pertaining to your personal life, and another one which holds your work locations. These can happily co-exist - subject only to the overall limit on DIY POI categories which is 27 for v5.2 or 40 for earlier versions of the software. _________________ Roger
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james23_uk Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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Hmmm, creating POIs sounds a little too advanced for me just now. Thanks for the info! |
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rkm_hm Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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james23_uk wrote: | Hmmm, creating POIs sounds a little too advanced for me just now. Thanks for the info! |
It's quite simple!
Change Preferences / Manage POI / Add POI Category
You can use this to create categories called (say) Friends and Work
Then Change Preferences / Manage POI / Add POI
Select the appropriate category - and create each POI in much the same way as adding a favourite. _________________ Roger
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 12:11 am Post subject: |
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And anything that you have already saved as a favourite, can easily be copied into your new POI categories in the same way
Change Preferences / Manage POI / Add POI/
Select your POI category / Favourite
Once you've tried it it really is easy - and is my prefered way to add anything (like new speed cameras) when I'm on the road because its less presses to save a favourite, then move it and rename it as a POI later. |
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james23_uk Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 12:53 am Post subject: |
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Oh right, I thought you had to make POIs on your PC and transfer them across - didnt know it was as easy as that.
Thanks :D |
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james23_uk Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 12:54 am Post subject: |
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Did I read somewhere that there was a way to increase the number of POIs to above 27 on 5.2 software? Now that I've upgraded my cameras to multi-speeds I need more room. |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:05 am Post subject: |
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Not that I know of, other than going back to 5.1 or waiting for 5.3 where they've 'promised' to put it back to 40. Think it's due October or November |
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rkm_hm Frequent Visitor
Joined: Nov 28, 2004 Posts: 532 Location: Warwick, UK
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:33 am Post subject: |
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james23_uk wrote: | Oh right, I thought you had to make POIs on your PC and transfer them across - didnt know it was as easy as that.
Thanks :D |
No - if you're doing lots, like all the railway stations in uk or something, it's much easier to do on a PC - but small quantities can quite easily be created on TTG itself. _________________ Roger
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