Chapter 10 - System 10-3
Note:
 Making or answering to phone calls during 
a PC connection is not recommended as it might 
disrupt the operation.
Remember to make backup copies of all impor-
tant data!
File transfer
To select the serial connection type (infrared or 
cable) and the PC drive used, press 
Settings
 in 
File transfer application’s main view.
To connect to a PC, press 
Connect to PC
 in the 
File transfer main view. File transfer requires that 
the connectivity software has been installed and 
is running on the PC (see "Connecting to a PC"). 
When you are connected to a PC, there are two 
system windows on the communicator interface 
display. The left window shows the folders on the 
communicator (the same folders as seen in the 
Notes main view) and the right window shows 
the contents of the selected PC directory. The 
currently active window has a thick frame and 
the selection frame is inside the active window.
You can change the active window by pressing 
the 
Change window
 command button, or alter-
natively, the keyboard tab key. In addition, the 
left and right arrow keys can be used to activate 
the left or right window (these keys do not toggle 
the active window: the left arrow always acti-
vates the communicator window and the right 
arrow the PC window).
The following files can be transferred: 
Text files 
 
— Nokia 9000 Communicator text 
files transferred to a PC can be read and edit-
ed in a PC environment with standard Win-
dows or MS-DOS text editors. 
Correspondingly, PC text files can be read and 
edited in the communicator, just as well.
Graphics files (figures) — When transferring 
files from a PC to the communicator, files 
with the extensions JPG and GIF are consid-
ered as graphics files. Graphics files trans-
ferred to the communicator can be viewed 
with the image viewer.
Transferring files from the 
communicator
To transfer files to and from the communicator, 
you must open both the correct PC directory and 
communicator folder. When the File transfer 
view opens for the first time, all of the commu-
nicator’s folders are closed. Files can be copied to 
or from an opened folder only.
After the connection type and PC drive have been 
selected in the settings, and you are connected 
to the PC:
If the PC directory shown in the right window 
is not the directory to which you want to copy 
the file(s), you must change it as follows: 
• Press the right arrow key to activate the PC 
window
•If necessary, press 
Close
 to close the current 
directory 
•Press 
Open
 to open the correct directory 
•Press 
Change window
 (or the left arrow key) 
to activate the communicator window.
Press 
Open
 to open the folder containing the 
file(s) you want to transfer. Select a file by 
moving the selection frame over it. (If the file 
you wanted was not in this folder, press 
Close
 
and select another folder.)
Press 
Copy to PC
 to start file transfer. If you 
want to copy more files, repeat the procedure 
from step 
.
Before files can be copied to a PC, you must 
change the name of the copied file to a PC com-
patible format. The File transfer application will 
suggest a name, but you can also enter it your-
self. The name may contain eight characters and 
the extension three characters.
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