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Title: ir beam reciept
Post by: dolphin_oracle on June 25, 2004, 03:43:41 pm

I was on an airplane Monday and a fellow passenger decided to beam me an address (vcard I think) from her toshiba pocket pc.  I've never beamed anything before, and so we tried it.  The utility on the Z said I received the file, but I could not locate it.  My fellow passenger thought that the information should automatically go into my address book, but it has not appeared.

Any thoughts.  The beam thing is cool and I might want to try it again.

Thanks.

Title: ir beam reciept
Post by: Fromwithin on June 25, 2004, 07:51:30 pm

Don't know about the 5xxx series, but on my C750, it will place the file in a couple of directories of the mime type of the file. So an unknown text file would go into Documents/text/plain, for example.

Title: ir beam reciept
Post by: dolphin_oracle on June 25, 2004, 09:27:15 pm

I've checked the usual document folders.  It may not have worked after all.  Is there any way to do a global search for the file?

Thanks.

Title: ir beam reciept
Post by: freizugheit on June 25, 2004, 11:02:29 pm

I do not know which Zaurus you have and how you received.

For my SL-5600, I need to activate the Beam Receive under the Settings Windows. Press the Start button.  A Reveiving beam data  window will pop up.  During the file transfer,  the "Receiving" word is blinking.

When the file is successfully transmitted, the  Receiving' will disappear.  You need to tab "Add to Files" button and slect the right storage media for the file received.  

Depending on the file extenstion, the file will be automatically stored under /mnt/cf(card)/Documents/application/*, where * is the subdirectory name of the appropriate file type.  For address book, it should be in "/octet-stream/ subdirectory.


I hope the above might help.

Title: ir beam reciept
Post by: markw on June 25, 2004, 11:54:03 pm

For me it just akses if i want to add it to adress book after the beam completes. When i say yes it puts it there. I works with ppc2002, i dont know about '03, mabe its different...

Title: ir beam reciept
Post by: zbones on June 26, 2004, 09:51:39 am

If it doesn't know what to do with the file then it usually leaves a copy of it under /tmp,

Stuff beamed from my old nokia phone did this.

Hopefully you haven't rebooted since.

Peter

Title: ir beam reciept
Post by: dolphin_oracle on June 27, 2004, 03:49:37 pm

Thank you for the tips.  I have a 5500 by the way.  It did not ask to add to my address book nor did a "add to files" button appear (at least I don't think it did).

The file name was given.  I will try checking in the tmp directory.

Thanks.

Title: ir beam reciept
Post by: dolphin_oracle on June 27, 2004, 03:52:03 pm

And in the tmp director it was!  Thanks for the help.

D.O.