Palm Pre 2, User Manual

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Chapter 5 : Copy files and sync your personal data 57
4 Open My Computer (Windows XP), Computer (Windows
Vista/Windows 7), or Finder (Mac), double-click the drive
representing your phone, and delete the files or folders.
5 End the connection safely—if you do not eject safely, your phone resets
when you disconnect the USB cable:
• On a Windows computer, right-click the drive representing your
phone and click
Eject .
• On a Mac computer, from your desktop, drag the drive representing
your phone to the
Trash . Trash changes to Eject .
6 Disconnect the USB cable from the computer and the phone when
the USB drive screen is no longer displayed on your phone.
Copy music, photos, and videos using third-party software
Besides using USB Drive mode to copy your photos, videos, and DRM-free
music from your computer to your phone, you can also use solutions
available from third-party software developers (sold separately) that
facilitate the transfer of media files to your phone. For more information,
open the browser on your computer and go to
palm.com/sync-solutions .
Overview: Get your personal data onto your
phone
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, and 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 Palm
® Pre™ 2
phone, but you want those numbers on your new phone.
You want to be able to access all this data on your phone. This section
explains how you can do that. The actual how-to part of getting your
personal data on your phone 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 phone and in the cloud: You can set up a sync relationship
between your phone and an online account in the cloud. This enables you to
create and change data in one place—on your phone or in the online
account—and have it show up in both places.
On your phone and on your computer: You can set up a sync relationship
between your phone and selected desktop organizers. Different kinds of
sync relationships are possible using third-party solutions. This enables you
to create and change data in one place—on your phone or in the desktop
organizer—and have it show up in both places.
On your phone only: Store and create contact and calendar data in your
Palm profile account. It’s backed up to your Palm profile on Palm’s servers.
You cannot create or change data except on your phone.
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 Pre 2 phone.