Refer to Mobile Device from XP

Is there a way to refer to my WM6 device from a Windows XP batch
file? I basically want to copy video files from my desktop to the
storage card on my Smartphone. It looks like I can't just say
something like "\my mobile device\storage card\" and it won't let me
map a drive to it.

Scott
Sat May 03 14:28:47 PDT 2008

Mike C <michaeljc70@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Is there a way to refer to my WM6 device from a Windows XP batch
>file? I basically want to copy video files from my desktop to the
>storage card on my Smartphone. It looks like I can't just say
>something like "\my mobile device\storage card\" and it won't let me
>map a drive to it.

Take a look at my Rapi utilities at
http://scottandmichelle.net/scott/cestuff/rapiutils.zip . With these
tools you can do a few different things on the device from the command
line, for instance, to copy a file to the device, you can use
rapicopy:

rapicopy sourcefile.txt "\My Documents\DeviceFile.txt"

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Peter
Sat May 10 23:44:12 PDT 2008

Mike C wrote:
> Is there a way to refer to my WM6 device from a Windows XP batch
> file? I basically want to copy video files from my desktop to the
> storage card on my Smartphone. It looks like I can't just say
> something like "\my mobile device\storage card\" and it won't let me
> map a drive to it.

yes, however, that directory is only valid when you have the device in the
cradle and activeynch is active, so check for the device in the cradle
before you try and copy files to it

Beverly
Sun May 11 07:46:33 PDT 2008

to expand on the other responses... while file transfers using an
activesync connection are possible, the basic windows mobile design is
that ppc's are "client only" os's, so, without external software, the
ppc's file system is not accessible using other client software.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

Werner
Sun May 11 09:13:19 PDT 2008

Note that you can make the contents of the storager card accessible without
any 3rd app install (not even AS) on the desktop with third-party apps
runnable on the handset.

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"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote in
message news:OhKaPX3sIHA.2068@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> to expand on the other responses... while file transfers using an
> activesync connection are possible, the basic windows mobile design is
> that ppc's are "client only" os's, so, without external software, the
> ppc's file system is not accessible using other client software.
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]