Product Manual

Collecting Data
ManagingFiles
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P/N:7010‐1004
Managing Files
Rawdataisrecordedastime‐taggedmeasurementsinasinglerawdatafile.Eachfileisrecordedtothereceiver’smemory,and
automaticallygivenanameanda*.tpsfileextension.Youcanthentransfer afileofcollecteddatacantoacomputerwithfile
managingsoftware,suchas
theTopconReceiverUtility(TRU),whichissuppliedontheGPS+CD.Theseprogramsallowyouto
useanautomaticnamingfeature,enterfilenames,anddeletefilesasnecessary.Formoreinformation,seetheTRUOnlineHelp
embeddedinthesoftware.
Downloading and Deleting Files
Aftercompletingasurvey,dow n loaddatafilestoacomputeroracontrollerforstorage,post‐processing,orbackup.The
SD/SDHCcardsholdafiniteamountoffiles,soyouwillwanttodeletefilestoincreasememorycapacity.
Whenthememoryisfull,thereceiverstopsloggingdata,andtheRECLEDturnsdark/off,indicatinganerrorcondition.Existing
dataisnotoverwritten.
Todeleterawdatafilesfromthereceiver,useaUSB,serial,orBluetoothconnectiontodownloadthe filestoacomputer.In
TRU,youcanselectthefilesyouwanttodeletefromthereceiver.SeetheTRUOnlineHelpformoreinformation.
Onceaconnectionisestablished,youcandownloadallorsomefilestoacomputerorcontrollerandthenusetheFileExplorer
featureinTopcon ReceiverUtility(TRU)tomanagetherawdatafiles.FormoreinformationaboutusingTRUtodownloador
deletefiles,seetheTopconReceiverUtility
(TRU)OnlineHelpembeddedinthesoftware.