Chapter 3: Windows Pc Media And File Transfer - Blackberry Bold 9700 Manual

Windows PC Media and
File Transfer
In this chapter we will help you get your important files and media from your Windows
computer to your Bold. Your Bold is quite a capable media player on which you can
enjoy music, pictures, and videos. Like your computer, your BlackBerry can even edit
Microsoft Office documents.
You have a variety of choices about how to transfer documents and media and we
explore all the most popular ones in this chapter. You will quickly see that some
methods such as Mass Storage Mode transfer work well for large numbers of files,
whereas you will want to use the Media Sync program to transfer your music playlists.
There are a few ways to load up media (music, videos, pictures) and Microsoft Office
documents (for use with Documents to Go) onto your BlackBerry:
Desktop Manager Media Manager (page 106)
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Desktop Manager BlackBerry Media Sync (page 114)
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Mass Storage Mode Transfer (page 144)
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Email the files to yourself as attachments (
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The Mass Storage Mode transfer method allows you to directly copy or drag-and-drop
any file types to your BlackBerry when it looks like another disk drive to your computer.
(you will see a drive C: normally, but when you connect your BlackBerry, you may see a
new drive letter such as E:, F:, G:). We recommend this Mass Storage Mode transfer to
copy your Microsoft Office documents (for use with Documents to Go) onto your
BlackBerry into the Documents folder. See page 144.
More options are popping up all the time and will vary depending on who supplied your
BlackBerry (for example, Verizon's Rhapsody MediaSync)
Before we begin, we strongly recommend that you install a Micro SD memory card into
your BlackBerry handheld. With the price of memory coming way down, you can get a 2
GB, 4 GB, or even an 8GB Micro SD card for little money. Obviously, the bigger the
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