Route Backup

[margek49]

Firstly thanks for the invaluable assistance I have so far. I have been trying to prepare a route of some 500kms from the Snowy Mountains to Sydney in NSW Australia. There are many speed changes and several main highways involved. I followed Mike Alder and other forum members' advice about using a small side road and then delecting it and selecting the segments where I really want to make the changes.
after a while I got the hang of it and have managed to have most of the route corrected.
I still have one difficult section in the middle where the highway goes through Canberra (another State) and intend to attack that section now.
I am worried that if I make a mistake now I could undo some of my hard work to date. Can I save this route in its present state and if so HOW?
Should I follow dn's sticky on backing up to my PC and copy files to a new backup directory. Will this safely save the route I have prepared so far with speed map dorrections or only my favourites and POI's etc.?
Please help before I ruin all my hard work.
Margek49

 

[dhn]

You could create the existing route as itinerary 1 and it'll be saved as such.

Then create another itinerary with the same information as the current itinerary 1 and save it as itinerary 2.

 

[mvl]

I'm confused:
- You're talking about preparing a route (eg itinerary planner).
- Then you talk about Mike's hints on the mapshare speed-limit editor.

What are you attempting? Speed limits in Tomtom only impact the "overspeed" warnings, they don't alter a route calculation.

 

[Juan]

You could create the existing route as itinerary 1 and it'll be saved as such.

Then create another itinerary with the same information as the current itinerary 1 and save it as itinerary 2.

I would like to know how to do that also. I can't see how to save an existing route to a new route location and new name.

This is the part of Tom Tom's sofware design that is very poor in my model 720. The route planing capabilites are difficult to use.

 

[dhn]

It's just redoing the same steps to create itinerary 1. When it comes time to save the waypoints, this time call it itinerary 2.

Having said that, I wouldn't be surprised if you could simply use Explorer, go to the itn folder, find xxx.itn (where XXX=first itinerary) and copy xxx.itn to yyy.itn.

Now you would have 2 itineraries, named differently, but having the same set of waypoints.

 

[Arno]

I... I wouldn't be surprised if you could simply use Explorer, go to the itn folder, find xxx.itn (where XXX=first itinerary) and copy xxx.itn to yyy.itn.

Even easier; double click on xxx.itn then Save as yyy.itn.

Now you would have 2 itineraries, named differently, but having the same set of waypoints.

... and you can muck about with the second, not worrying that you screw up info saved so far.