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Another Noob

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Hi folks!

Long-time lurker and have benefitted from advice posted here in the past, but now have a specific question so have finally subscribed
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Welcome to the forum! I hope you will share some of the wisdom gained as a long-time lurker.
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Welcome.
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Peobody wrote: 23 Apr 2023 14:33 Welcome to the forum! I hope you will share some of the wisdom gained as a long-time lurker.
Thanks for the welcome!

A few examples of wisdom I've gained from here over the years:
  • How to get the later, much larger, cartography for all of Europe to load onto the internal memory of a Zumo 660 by using a removable drive and not bothering with the 3D "eye candy"
  • Getting confirmation of what folders and files left behind by Express after updating cartography I could delete with impunity to release space on my PC's SSD
  • Learning the vagaries of how the routing worked on my BMW Nav VI from the excellent Zumo 590/595 guide written by @jfheath
  • Saving me much teeth gnashing when I bought my Zumo XT and couldn't find a way to get Express to update the cartography on my PC (it was the time of the Zumo firmware / Express version issue). Fortunately I still had my Nav VI during that period so could use that to get the PC's cartography updated
Plus other little tips and tit-bits too numerous to list.

Hopefully I'll be able to make the odd useful contribution to the community by way of thanks. My first one relates to a cartography update issue, here
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Welcome to the forums. We must have met before !

You will find the equivalent of the 590/595 guide written for the XT here

viewtopic.php?p=9356#p9356

with links to an on-line flip page version on Issuu ont he first post.
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jfheath wrote: 24 Apr 2023 16:50 We must have met before !
That’s a definite possibility!

Thanks for the pointer to the XT guide.