[BNU] WMDC success!
- From: "Mike Bernard" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "mbern6516@xxxxxxx" for DMARC)
- To: <braillenote@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 15:28:14 -0400
Hello fellow Braillenote users!
I think I've finally figured out how to get Mobile Device Center to work
with our braillenotes. Here's what I did:
1. Plugged the usb cable into a port on the computer and plugged the other
end into the bn.
2. Opened Windows Mobile Device Center.
3. On the main screen of the program, you'll see two buttons:
A. help and about
B. a button that's not labeled
If you press spacebar or enter on the unlabeled button, you'll get a dialog
of options. There are four of them. The first three have to do with cyncing
your outlook calander, outlook contacts, and I think addressbook. The fourth
one on the list talks about cyncing files between your device and the pc.
Arrow down to this option and then tab to the next button and press it. Next
4. You'll be asked for the name of the folder you want WMDC to create and
place on your computer. By default, they call it xxxx xxxx's device, where
xxxx xxxx, is your first and last name, followed by device. For me, mine is
called Mike Bernard's device. From what I can tell, this is just like the
old Mobile device folder that ActiveCync used to create for us in Windows
xp. Once you've done this, the next time you plug your braillenote into the
computer, Just go to your computer's C drive, or in my case, (this pc), and
there at the bottom of the list, or whereever your computer decides to put
it, you'll see a folder with your first and last name, or whatever name you
gave it, followed by the word device. Press enter on that folder, and there,
you'll see all the folders and drives of the bn. I've found, that with WMDC,
you don't even have to run the software in order to view the drives and
folders on the bn like we had to do in ActiveCync. Just plug the usb cable
in to the pc, go to your C drive, (if using windows xp, computer if using
windows 7 or this pc if using windows 8.1 locate the folder with your name
and/or whatever name you gave it, press enter on that folder name and off
you go. I just decided to give WMDC another try this afternoon, and I guess
somehow, someway, I got it to work. How to get your contacts, addressbook
and calander to work with the software, is another chapter, but I don't use
those features in outlook anyway. If you do, you can play around with it to
see what you get. To read about the program and get help, launch the
program, tab until you hear "help and about" and press enter. This should
open in your pc's default browser and take you to a help page.I hope that
this makes some sense to all of you. I wish I could've been more accurate,
but now that I've gone through all the steps, I can't bring up and read the
dialogs again.
Mike
Rochester, NY.
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