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trammer
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:02 pm    Post subject: tomtom730t Reply with quote

can anybody tel me how to put points of interest onto the 730 from tomtom home Thanks
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You don't need TomTom home to add POI files (except the ones downloaded from TomTom themselves).
Normal computer-style "copy and paste" is all you need.

In fact, we usually suggest you use Home as little as possible - only for updating software and maps. Everything else (especially the important system backups) is better and safer done with "copy and paste".

If you are used to moving documents and files around on your computer, the following instructions will be unnecessarily wordy, but I'll try to give every step as if you've not done it before...

1. Connect your TomTom to the PC, and if Home starts up... close it again.

2. Then, with "My Computer" or "Windows Explorer" find the POI files you downloaded. They will probably have been delivered as a "zip" archive.

3. Right click on the zip file with the mouse and select "extract all" from the drop-down menu.

4. That will give you one or more sets of two files - for example cashmachines.ov2 and cashmachines.bmp (If you cannot see the three letters after the dot, see below)

5. Simply select all of these files with the mouse, right click and select "copy".

6. Then browse to the TomTom itself (it will have appeared as a new disk drive) and open your named map's folder ("Western Europe" "Great Britain and Ireland" or similar), and right click then "paste" the files into place.

That's it!
Use "Safely disconnect hardware" icon next to the PC's clock before you unplug the cable, and then when the TT has re-started, you should see the new POI categories if you go to "Manage POIs" or "Show POIs on map" (Some ONE models don't have the "Manage POIs" menu)

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If you can't see the three letters after the dot in the file names:

You need to enable the correct view in Windows Explorer or My Computer:

To fix that, you should go to either My Computer or Windows Explorer and:
Go to the 'Tools' Menu,
Select 'Folder Options'
Select the 'View' tab
Scroll down the list of entries and UN-tick "Hide extensions for known file types"


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I suppose I should have added...
If the POI files ARE from TT Home, you just use the "add" button once you have chosen the file you want from the Add maps, Traffic, Voices, etc. page.
The POIs from Home are often rather disappointing though.
Have you looked at the ones from this site? (there's a link in the long column on the left of this page).
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Andy_P wrote:

Have you looked at the ones from this site? (there's a link in the long column on the left of this page).


... and on the right ... and at the top of the page! Wink
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