File and folder sync hits PC Suite

Great to see features continuing to be added to PC Suite. Folder sync is something I wanted for a while.

It's a shame all the drivers (phones etc.) have to recognised again / connections set up though. Store Images continues to grab every image in site (i.e. if you store images on your phone and want to keep them there don't use delete after copying to PC option).

At least its all very painless these days. PC Suite really has come on since the early days. Definitely one of the most under valued bits of software.

Good start.

What you really need is some more advanced options. Like:

Allowing you to map several folders, not just the one.
Select specific files, files based on extension etc.

By the way, does PC Suite let the nokianternal memory & storage appear as disks on your pc. So you can use a 3rd party file sync. tool ?

Zuber

Has anyone actually tried this new version? On my N95 it only seems to sync from the phone to the PC!
Change a file on the PC, dont touch the phone, and it is over written by the phone version!
Not a lot of good, and I cant find an email address for Nokia support!
Bah!

Nokia, a big thanks to you!!!

This is something I have been dreaming of for a long time! Great that you added this feature!

Even if somenthing does not work (as it often happens with everything new), it's very good that the feature was at all implemented and I am certain that all bugs (if any) will sooner or later be removed!

Borys

I could not get the file sync to work with Toshiba bluetooth stack version 4 (even though they say it is compatible). It was saying it could not create the briefcase folder on either the phone or the memory card on my 6680. It eventually hung the bluetooth manager. Upgraded to version 5 from Toshiba Website and now works, although so far have only synced a file on the PC to an empty folder on the phone.

dkeppler wrote:Has anyone actually tried this new version? On my N95 it only seems to sync from the phone to the PC!
Change a file on the PC, dont touch the phone, and it is over written by the phone version!
Not a lot of good, and I cant find an email address for Nokia support!
Bah!

Try the Nokia discussions site

I repeate my question, has anyone actually got this syncing both ways? Cos even after a complete uninstal/install, it still doesnt work.

unable to complete installation process on Vista !
Previous version 6.83 working fine.
Anyone had the same problem ?

Beautiful! I just tried the file transfer and it worked perfectly.

I'm also pleased at the stability of the new suite.

While installing under Vista I get the following error :

Error writing to file C:\CONFIG.MSI\94FC13.RBF
VERIFIY THAT YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THAT DIRECTORY.

On the same macine I have the previous version 6.83 working fine.

Any ideas ?

Uninstall the previous version first.

Strange - I've just updated my PCSuite software (and About confirms that I have version 6.84.10.3), but Synch Settings still only asks me which PC (i.e. email) application I want to use ... the answer to which is "None" - not an available option.

Is it only possible to get to the menu in your screenshot if you also synch with an email / address book application?

Never mind - just answered my own question: you have to skip the Wizard (an option I hadn't spotted before) ... and found that sadly the file synch is pretty simplistic, and doesn't give you any choice about which folder(s) on the phone to synch - it has to be either C:\Data\Briefcase or E:\Briefcase, so you can't use it as a way to keep all your files in synch.

Oh well, I suppose it's a step in the right direction.

Julie

Yes it synchs only one way E90 to PC unless I reboot my PC or logoff and logon my PC session. Then it works the first time and then I have to repeat the whole reboot....

FYI:

To the poster asking if anyone had actually gotten the file sync to work as described: I have not. 😊

In PC Suite Version 6.84.10.3 older files on my phone (E61) will overwrite newer files on the PC. I carefully tested this prior to actual use, fortunately.

I can only use the file sync feature to add entirely new file files to either the desktop or the phone.

There's a patch to 6.84.10.4, but it doesn't seem to have fixed the folder sync.

As you say, it's more a 'keep mirror copies of your master documents' feature than a true sync.

AVOID USING FILE AND FOLDER SYNCHRONISATION

Like a number of other people I have fallen foul of this "feature". Having synchronised files successfully for 1st time from PC to my phone I later ran it again (at the end of the day) and it overwrote the files I had modified on my PC with now out of date versions from my phone. Clearly the logic used by the application is fundamentally flawed. Don't learn the hard way like me - I lost a whole days work!