FILE TRANSFER Palm-pc-palm?

[johniemi]

I'm frustrated now... it's late, I'm hungry and I can't get this right: I have a 3meg spreadsheet that I'm trying to transfer from my office pc to my palm m515 so I can take it home, and transfer it to my home pc for editing.

How can I put a file in my palm for short term storage? I renamed the file (in win & ms-dos) to .prc but hotsync just fails... is there a size limit

I know there are commercial applications, but there has to be an easier way??? Just look at pocketpc's... file transfer and storage is at least one thing they are good/easy to use in.

And if there is no other way than a 3rd party app, let me know if there is something else than filebox...

-John

[dwhoward]

Can you provide some more information? You said it was a spreadsheet, are you using docs to go or quickoffice or are you trying to take a native excel file change the extension to prc and hotsync? Are you trying to install to an SD/MMC card or to the Palm's RAM? If the RAM, do you have enough free RAM?

What I might suggest, particularly for such a large file and short-term storage would be to get an SD/MMC card reader (approx $25) that will plug into your USB port and act as a removable drive on your PC. Or you could try SyncWizard software which trys to do the same thing. You can get the software at www.palmgear.com

[johniemi]

Originally posted by dwhoward
Can you provide some more information? You said it was a spreadsheet, are you using docs to go or quickoffice or are you trying to take a native excel file change the extension to prc and hotsync? Are you trying to install to an SD/MMC card or to the Palm's RAM? If the RAM, do you have enough free RAM?

What I might suggest, particularly for such a large file and short-term storage would be to get an SD/MMC card reader (approx $25) that will plug into your USB port and act as a removable drive on your PC. Or you could try SyncWizard software which trys to do the same thing. You can get the software at www.palmgear.com

I'm trying to put a exel file to palm, just by changing the name to ***.prc and yes, to RAM... I have enough, about 12megs free.

Good answers, but my problem is that I would only need this file transfer a few times in a month, and the files never exceed 2-3 megs, usually they fit in a floppy disk and that's what I have used but it would be easier to use my palm for short term file storage.

It can't be that difficult :confused:

[adamst]

I had the same problem. Except these were AutoCad files upto 5mb in size.

In the end I forked out and bought a copy of Sincwizard. Costs about £20 but works perfectly.

There is a 30 day demo version available which should get you out of your current situation.