
Chapter 5 : Copy files and sync your personal data
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2
On your smartphone, tap
USB Drive
. On your computer, your
smartphone appears as a removable drive.
3
On a Windows computer, if the Found New Hardware wizard opens,
click
Cancel
to close the wizard.
4
Open
My Computer
(Windows XP),
Computer
(Windows
Vista/Windows 7), or
Finder
(Mac), double-click the drive
representing your smartphone, and delete the files or folders.
5
End the connection safely. If you do not eject safely, your smartphone
resets when you disconnect the USB cable:
•
On a Windows computer, right-click the drive representing your
smartphone and click
Eject
.
•
On a Mac computer, from your desktop, drag the drive representing
your smartphone to the
Trash
. Trash changes to
Eject
.
6
Disconnect the
USB cable
from the computer and the smartphone
when the USB drive screen is no longer displayed on your smartphone.
Copy music, photos, and videos using third-party software
Besides using USB Drive mode to copy your photos, videos, and DRM-free
music between your computer and your smartphone, you can also use
solutions available from third-party software developers (sold separately)
that facilitate the transfer of media files to your smartphone. For more
information, open the browser on your computer and go to
palm.com/sync-solutions
.
Overview: Get your personal data onto your
smartphone
Your personal data consists of the following:
•
Your contact list (names, phone numbers, street and email addresses)
•
Your calendar events
•
Your tasks (to-do list)
•
Your memos/notes
On your computer, you typically store such personal data in organizer
software like Microsoft Outlook, Palm Desktop by ACCESS, or the Mac’s
iCal and Address Book software.
It’s also likely that you store some personal data in accounts that you created
on the web. These are called online accounts. Sometimes you’ll hear that
data stored in online accounts is stored “in the cloud.” That’s just another
way to say that your data is stored on a server that you access through the
Internet. For example, if you have a Google/Gmail or a Yahoo! account, you
have a contact list stored in the cloud. You may even use the calendars in
these accounts to keep track of your schedule, so you may also have
calendar events stored in the cloud.
Finally, you may have important phone numbers stored only on an old
phone. You no longer use that phone now that you have a Veer, but you
want those numbers on your new smartphone.
You want to be able to access all this data on your smartphone. This section
explains how you can do that. The actual how-to part of getting your
personal data on your smartphone is pretty simple. But before you take that
step, we recommend that you spend some time thinking about where you
want your personal data to be stored and how you want to access it.
On your
smartphone
and in the cloud:
You can set up a sync relationship
between your smartphone and an online account in the cloud. This enables
you to create and change data in one place—on your smartphone or in the
online account—and have it show up in both places.
KEY
TERM
DRM-free:
Describes a file that is not protected by Digital Rights
Management. DRM-free files can be copied as many times as you like and can be
played on your Veer.
Summary of Contents for Veer
Page 1: ...User Guide ...
Page 6: ...6 Contents ...
Page 12: ...12 Chapter 1 Welcome ...
Page 30: ...30 Chapter 2 Basics ...
Page 38: ...38 Chapter 3 Just Type ...
Page 84: ...84 Chapter 6 Phone ...
Page 108: ...108 Chapter 7 Email text multimedia and instant messaging ...
Page 136: ...136 Chapter 8 Contacts Calendar and other personal information ...
Page 188: ...188 Chapter 11 Documents ...
Page 196: ...196 Chapter 12 HP webOS App Catalog and Software Manager ...
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