File Transfer - Nokia 9000 User Manual

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Chapter 10 - System
Note: Making or answering to phone calls during
a PC connection is not recommended as it might
disrupt the operation.

File transfer

To select the serial connection type (infrared or
cable) and the PC drive used, press Settings in
File transfer application's main view.
To connect to a PC, press Connect to PC in the
File transfer main view. File transfer requires that
the connectivity software has been installed and
is running on the PC (see "Connecting to a PC").
When you are connected to a PC, there are two
system windows on the communicator interface
display. The left window shows the folders on the
communicator (the same folders as seen in the
Notes main view) and the right window shows
the contents of the selected PC directory. The
currently active window has a thick frame and
the selection frame is inside the active window.
You can change the active window by pressing
the Change window command button, or alter-
natively, the keyboard tab key. In addition, the
left and right arrow keys can be used to activate
the left or right window (these keys do not toggle
the active window: the left arrow always acti-
vates the communicator window and the right
arrow the PC window).
The following files can be transferred:
Text files — Nokia 9000 Communicator text
files transferred to a PC can be read and edit-
ed in a PC environment with standard Win-
dows or MS-DOS text editors.
Correspondingly, PC text files can be read and
edited in the communicator, just as well.
Graphics files (figures) — When transferring
files from a PC to the communicator, files
with the extensions JPG and GIF are consid-
ered as graphics files. Graphics files trans-
ferred to the communicator can be viewed
with the image viewer.
Remember to make backup copies of all impor-
tant data!
Transferring files from the
communicator
To transfer files to and from the communicator,
you must open both the correct PC directory and
communicator folder. When the File transfer
view opens for the first time, all of the commu-
nicator's folders are closed. Files can be copied to
or from an opened folder only.
After the connection type and PC drive have been
selected in the settings, and you are connected
to the PC:
If the PC directory shown in the right window
is not the directory to which you want to copy
the file(s), you must change it as follows:
• Press the right arrow key to activate the PC
window
• If necessary, press Close to close the current
directory
• Press Open to open the correct directory
• Press Change window (or the left arrow key)
to activate the communicator window.
Press Open to open the folder containing the
file(s) you want to transfer. Select a file by
moving the selection frame over it. (If the file
you wanted was not in this folder, press Close
and select another folder.)
Press Copy to PC to start file transfer. If you
want to copy more files, repeat the procedure
from step .
Before files can be copied to a PC, you must
change the name of the copied file to a PC com-
patible format. The File transfer application will
suggest a name, but you can also enter it your-
self. The name may contain eight characters and
the extension three characters.
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