Installing & Using Qtopia™ Desktop; Installation; Usage; Synchronizing With Microsoft Outlook - Archos PMA 400 User Manual

17 Installing & Using Qtopia™ Desktop
Qtopia™ Desktop is a personal information management (PIM) program for Windows
computers. You can use it alone as a manager for the PIM data on your PMA400 or you can use it as
a synchronization tool to synchronize your Microsoft
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Installation

In the Archos folder you will find a folder called /Qtopia_Desktop_Install. Copy this folder to
your desktop computer and run the installation program inside it. Once it is installed, it will add a
'connection' icon to the system tray of your PC. The icon shown here indicates that the PMA400
is not connected to the computer, and thus no synchronization can take place.
17.2

Usage

Once you connect your PMA400 to your computer, it will be automatically recognized by your
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Window computer and the system tray will show the connection icon indicating that you can
now synchronize your PMA400 with your desktop computer. You can either launch the Qtopia™
Desktop program itself to have access to the calendar, todo list, and contact manager, or you can
simply right click the icon in the system tray and select Sync. The data in the Qtopia™ Desktop
program will be synchronized with the data on your PMA400.
17.3 Synchronizing with Microsoft
By default, the setting to synchronize with Microsoft
Sync from the system tray icon or Sync All from the Qtopia™ Desktop application, your PIM data
will be synchronized between Outlook, Qtopia™ Desktop, and the PMA400. You can change
settings for which data takes precedence in case of conflicts.
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Outlook information with your PMA400.
There is a complete On-line help which
explains each aspect of the program.
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Outlook is set. Thus, when you click on
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