Tom Tom XL Europe 22 - Need to find 83mb!

kittycat · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 07, 2009 Posts: 8

HI everyone. This is my first posting, so I am hoping that one of you "techies" can help someone out who has no idea of how to find some additional space to add my downloaded 127mb Eastern Europe map to my Tom Tom XL.

I currently have the Western Europe map installed and updated leaving me (according to my Tom Tom Home) of 45.9Mb of free space. I need to run the Western Europe and the Eastern Europe map in conjunction with one another as I regularly cross into Poland from Germany.

I recently downloaded the Eastern Europe map and now realise that I cannot slot the two maps onto the same device at the same time! There is no memory card slot on this model so I cannot even upgrade to more memory. Its driving me nuts!

In the "show contents" tab on Tom Tom Home it is saying that total capacity is currently 978.1Mb with the Western Europe Map installed. Free Space is now 45.9Mb, but the Eastern Europe Map is 127Mb and remains uninstalled. How can I delete items to get me enough space to add this map? A friend of mine mentioned that POI's can be deleted giving more space. I never use them so they can go. I only use cameras and maps and am not fussed about much else so the system could be trimmed right down if someone knows how to do this. HELP! How do I delete enough info on the Western Europe Map to allow enough room to fit the E Europe map onboard?? There must be a way. everything can go apart from the physical mapping and camera info. Im not interested in garages, pubs., hotels etc.

Can someone talk me through it please.? Thanks in advance.

mikealder · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:42 pm Post subject:

Welcome to the forum:
If you want to remove the built in POI Files simply make a full back up of the device using Windows Explorer (if you don't know how to do this have a read of FAQ #1 on This Page, then go to the Western_Europe" map folder and find the file POI.dat - delete this, depending upon which version of map is installed this should yield around 55MB of spare space.

The contents of the folder "Raster" can be removed, all these files do is give you the green map view when you fully zoom out so they won't be too missed. This should yield around 17MB of spare space.

Voices folder, if all you want are the UK voices then you can save quite a bit more space by removing lots of the foreign voices:

data04.chk and data04.vif are for UK Tim voice
data05.chk and data05.vif are for UK Jane voice
Deleting all the other voices shoild yield around 33MB spare space.

If you do all of the above you should have around 150MB spare space on the device with very little capability lost, for POI files just put the ones you want on the device from this site as they are more accurate and don't take up much space - Mike

kittycat · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 07, 2009 Posts: 8

HI - Many thanks for that. Ive found and deleted everything bar the RASTER folder. I cannot find it on the list ! Im now only 10Mb short of target.

mikealder · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:34 pm Post subject:

You reduce the new map size by removing the POI.dat file from the Eastern Europe map.
To gain another 10MB space remove the zip folder but this will remove the postcode search capability from the unit. I am suprised there is no raster folder on the unit though.

This is one of the major drawbacks to the newer products that lack the expansion capability the SD card slot offers on other models, adding other map files is always going to be problematic due to this restriction - Mike

kittycat · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 07, 2009 Posts: 8

mikealder · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:56 pm Post subject:

The problem you will find is the POI.dat file in the Eastern Europe map folder is only 4,83MB so that alone won't recover the memory you need.

Within the Eastern Europe map folder do you have the following two files:
cspeech_AUT.dat
cspeech_POL.dat
If so these can be removed to free up another 7,5MB - Mike

kittycat · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 07, 2009 Posts: 8

mikealder · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:15 pm Post subject:

Let us know how you get on and how much spare space there is on the device once you have it running both maps, its a shame having to go to such lengths removing functions and capability from the device to squeeze another map on the unit though - Mike

kittycat · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 07, 2009 Posts: 8

Hmmm a little niggle - But im sure you can help. When setting a route between the UK and Poland, I cannot get Poland to show up in the countries listings when using the "navigate to" function. Any ideas?

mikealder · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:18 pm Post subject:

Thats because your destination is in the other map folder, you need to plan a route to the border crossing then use Browse Map/ Switch map to reach the final destination.

Non of the TomTom devices can plan routes across a map boundry.

As a tip create a custom POI file on the device in BOTH map folders with the border crossings saved as locations, this makes the selection of a route much easier - Mike

kittycat · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 07, 2009 Posts: 8

Ah I see - I jus assumed that the maps would correlate into one.

Well many thanks for your help tonight - Im a happy chappy now.

kittycat · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 07, 2009 Posts: 8

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:56 pm Post subject:

That might be worth doing...
If the One's work like the older models, during moments of stress they would use the card/internal storage as extra temporary RAM memory (like the "cache" memory your PC creates on the hard disk).
If you have very little storage memory spare, it might cause ocassional freezes or re-boots.

kittycat · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 07, 2009 Posts: 8

mikealder · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:12 pm Post subject:

Removing the POI.dat file from the Eastern Europe map folder will release a further 4,83MB of storage space on the device - Mike

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