142 Chapter 9 : Photos, videos, and music
Organize your pictures into albums
The Photos app organizes the pictures you take or add to your phone into
predefined albums. The following table tells you where to find your photos
both in the Photos app and in your phone’s USB Drive storage.
You can use any photo in any album in Photos as wallpaper (see Save a
picture as wallpaper). The photo does not have to be in the Wallpapers
album.
You can assign any pictures on your phone to one of these albums or to an
album you create. To create and assign pictures to albums, you must put
your phone into USB Drive mode. You then create the albums and move
pictures into them using your computer.
1 Connect your phone and your computer using the USB cable.
2 On your phone, tap USB Drive. If prompted, tap OK. On your
computer, your phone appears as a removable drive.
3 On a Windows computer, if the Found New Hardware wizard opens,
click Cancel to close the wizard.
4 Open My Computer (Windows XP), Computer (Windows Vista/
Windows 7), or the Finder (Mac), and double-click the drive
representing your phone.
5 To create an album, use your computer’s controls for creating a new
folder. To be sure the Photos application can find the album, create it at
the root level of the drive representing your phone, not as a subfolder
of another folder.
6 Assign pictures to albums using your computer’s controls to copy or
move items. It is easiest to find the pictures you want by displaying
them as thumbnails.
7 End the connection safely—if you do not eject safely, your phone resets
when you disconnect the USB cable:
On a Windows computer, right-click the drive representing your
phone and click Eject.
On a Mac computer, from your desktop, drag the drive representing
your phone to the Tra s h . The Trash icon changes to Eject.
8 Disconnect the USB cable from the computer and from the phone
when the USB Drive screen no longer appears on your phone.
• To d e l e t e a n a lb u m: Connect your phone to your computer and tap USB
Drive. From your computer, open the drive representing your phone and
delete the folder representing the album.
Table 2. Photo locations
Origin of photos Album in Photos Folder in USB storage
Email, MMS Downloads downloads
Copied from computer Miscellaneous Root level of USB
storage
Camera on phone Photo roll DCIM > 100PALM
Phone Screen captures screencaptures
Phone Wallpapers wallpapers
Copied from elsewhere [Folder created by you
in USB storage]
[Folder created by you
containing at least one
BMP, JPG, or PNG]
TIP Besides using USB Drive mode to copy your photos, videos, and DRM-free
music from your computer to your phone, you can also use solutions available from
third-party software developers (sold separately) that facilitate the transfer of
media files to your phone. For more information, open the browser on your
computer and go to palm.com/sync-solutions.
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