Brett Robinson’s Blog

I use my Smartphone (Dash) to store files that I frequently update and carry them back and forth from work to home, etc. I was finding myself manually copying some of these files a couple times a day, and also ran into the situation where I needed information on a file at home that I had saved to the file at work. So, out of this frustration, I wrote another tool. This tool maintains syncing files from your PC to your smartphone. Here’s how it works:

Upon installation, it places a shortcut to the application in the startup folder. Now it will start when your PC does. In order to get it to run right after installation go to your startup folder under your start menu, and click the Phone File Sync item. You’ll notice a little phone icon in the bottom windows taskbar right panel:

This icon will have 3 states:

1. Green - phone is connected
2. Yellow - phone is syncing files
3. Red - phone is not connected

If you right click on the icon you get three (3) options:

1) Show Files to Sync: Opens up the application for file mappings. (double click on the icon does the same thing).
2) Sync Files: Forces a sync.
3) Exit: Exits the application.

Once in the main application (option 1 from above), you’ll see this screen:

I labeled each section and here is an explanation on what each does:

A: The list of files or directories on your PC to be sync’d with your smartphone.
B: Click to add a file to be sync’d
C: Click to add a directory to be sync’d
D: Once you do [B] or [C], and select a location in [E], click this button to add the mapping.
E: Smartphone file system. Select the destination after clicking on an item in [A] and then before clicking [D] to add the mapping.
F: Displays the mapped path on your phone. Click an item in [A] to see the mapping. There will not be anything there if you haven’t added a mapping yet.

Here’s the screen once you added a file from the PC:

Same file but now after I have a mapping, notice the mapped path now says where it is mapped:

The checkbox next to the item means that it is active and will sync with your device.

If you would like to delete a mapping, right click on an item in [A] from above and you’ll get a menu that pops up with the delete item:

The application will sync with the phone every 3 hours, or if you right click on the taskbar icon and force a sync.

You can use this with my password app and have some very cool ways of having your data on you at all times!

Also - I only tested this app using the Dash which has Windows Mobile 6 standard on it, and ActiveSync 4.5.

Download here: Phone File Sync [ 448 Downloads ]