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Camera Pics Location on 2i

I've looked on the registry and tried fiddling but resulted in a) a crash that required a soft reset and b) message saying couldn't save the file when i changed the picture location to \my documents\my pictures.
Whenever I save a picture on the 2i it saves it into a folder in MD with the date as the folder name, with the picture stored in it. Any way to change this?
Ant

Did you manage to get a solution to this - I'm looking for exactly the same answer. There is a possible reg key, but changing that caused problems.

Also for me.
I've a Qtek 2020i from few days and I would like to know store all the photos in one folder.
At the moment I set the path of saved photos (SD card) but I want to have all the photos in one foolder instead of multiple photos in multiple folders. :?
Bye !

Still no work around for this ?

No news for me

I never did get an answer no, and I've given up looking for one myself.
Ant

I was thinking of creating a small apllication that you could run to move the pictures/movies from the numeric folders to a default folder such as My Pictures, im reading up on how it could be achieved at the moment.

On my xda 2, I made a directory on storage card, and they are all in that folder. What happens with yours? You can prefix it with anything you like, I call mine pic and it increments pic_001 etc. The settings are under camera, then click the spanner/screwdriver, then click tools, then click options. I changed the prefix to string and defined the string in the next box down under prefix string, the folder is changed under folder by clicking change.

For some reason the "Folder" option is missing on the XDA 2i so even though you can select the location (Main memory or storage card) it still saves it in \My Documents\xxxxxxxxxx <--- the x's refer to the date ie
05071800001 , 05(year)07(Month)18(Day) the rest is the folder number i think ? 00001 ?
Why they never used the same configuration as the other phones is beyond me but nevermind !

Danny-B- said:
I was thinking of creating a small apllication that you could run to move the pictures/movies from the numeric folders to a default folder such as My Pictures, im reading up on how it could be achieved at the moment.
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If you be able to do this you're the BEST !!!! :wink:

Trouble changing the path to the SD
Hi there,
I'm using i-Mate JAMin, win mobile 5 and the only available options here are Main Memory and Network. In other words I cannot change to save the photos and videos to the SD card. Please, help!
P.S.: I also tried setting a new path within the registry settings, changed the path to '\Storage Card\My Photos\' with no luck - it creates the directories under the 'My Documents' in the main memory. It's a big pain in the ass b/c I don't have enough space to make lots of photos or clips.

HELP - Clone Question

I have a utility that i can use to clone an XDA via an SD card. This works great for quickly producing lots of devices with the same config. However, it also makes the "Device ID" the same on each device.
I know you can rename the Device ID, not a problem. The problem comes that although the device ID name (text) is different, the names within the registry are not.
I am basicly looking for a way to give the device a new SID?
does anybody have a utility for this? Its causing me a real problem with my management software.
Thanks

Resolved.
Problem was a .ini file in the storage location

Hi Noodleman
I am looking for some software to achieve the same thing.
Can you tell me what you use ? (Plus give me some tips on how to use it)
I would really appreatiate the help on this !

Excel Saving problem

I've searched but cannot find any info about this.
I recently upgraded to a 8125 (WM5)from a iPAQ 2215 (Pocket PC 4.20). Now when editing most (not all) of my Excel files I get a "unsupported content" when I try to save it. It give me the option of saving as another name, discard or cancel.
It doesn't matter what I edit, whether it is text or a number. The files do not have any macros, just simple equations.
My desktop is running WinXP with Office 2003.
Thanks in advance.

Excel file save error
Sledutah said:
I've searched but cannot find any info about this.
I recently upgraded to a 8125 (WM5)from a iPAQ 2215 (Pocket PC 4.20). Now when editing most (not all) of my Excel files I get a "unsupported content" when I try to save it. It give me the option of saving as another name, discard or cancel.
It doesn't matter what I edit, whether it is text or a number. The files do not have any macros, just simple equations.
My desktop is running WinXP with Office 2003.
Thanks in advance.
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I get something similar: "An error occurred saving 'filename'", and then the file closes with no modifications.
I have to do a File Save As... and give the file a new, slightly different name if I want to save new data. This doesn't happen with every file I use, but it has happened with files imported via ActiveSync as well as with files I have created on the 8125 itself

Hmmm, I never had any problems! Can one of you post one if this mysterious files? But take off your personal information and critical data first from that file! Would be interesting to see if it happens on mine too ...

When I get the error, I can save it as another name with no problem. It is a hassle, because I edit the files on the desktop PC and the 8125. I have not done any upgrades to the 8125, it is the way I got it from Cingular, except for a few programs that I installed which are the same ones I had on my older iPAQ.
I uploaded one of the files that I have the problem with. I cleared all the data and left the equations. I checked it after I did this and it still will not save without making me change the filename.

Works fine on mine! Had no problems adding contents and saving it! Maybe you had the file open twice? This happens if you do not close Excel properly or if you open it by clicking on the file. Excel might have been already open with that file in the background and therefore you only would be able to save it under a different name since the file still would be in use.

Thanks for giving it a try. The problem is not that it's already open. If I do a soft reset, then open the file, modify it and then close I get the message.

Post your PDA specs.

I have had this problem when saving to the Memory card. When it does this I just save to main memory and copy over via Resco, not ideal...but it beats carrying a laptop.

kegobeer said:
Post your PDA specs.
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Cingular 8215
WM5 OS 5.1.195
IPL 2/25
SPL 2/25
GSM 02.25.11
OS 2.25.11.1
I haven't updated anything, just installed a few programs, the same ones I used on my iPAQ.
Files are on the PDA, not SD card. I even tried removing the card, no change.

Has this always happened?

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Has this always happened?
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Yes, but I've only had it for about 3 weeks. The files are all the same that I've used with my iPAQ with no problems.

Yes it happens....
Check this, http://softmaker.com/english/ofp_en.htm
It has to be a very good reason to have this company in business selling substitutes for pexcel and pword. According to what they advertise that reason is that pexcel and pword are not 100% compatible with the desktop versions, so whenever an xls or doc file made in desktop is modified and saved under the same name in a PPC is very likely that some formats, functions etc. will be affected or lost, so M$ PPC awares (probably not in the best way) the user that the files made in the desktop are going to change and will lost some features, formatting, etc.

I was having the same problem on an iPaq hx4700 running Windows Mobile 5. Some Excel Mobile files would only save changes when I used save as and gave them another name. I found the following link while trying to resolve the issue:
http://forums.pocketpcfaq.com/viewtopic.php?t=17048
(g0lg0thaZA Feb 15, 2007 4:16 am)
I searched my device for Temp0FOO files and deleted them. After that I was able to make changes to spreadsheets and save them without changing the name.

Excel Mobile Save Fix!
XeonXeon said:
I was having the same problem on an iPaq hx4700 running Windows Mobile 5. Some Excel Mobile files would only save changes when I used save as and gave them another name. I found the following link while trying to resolve the issue:
http://forums.pocketpcfaq.com/viewtopic.php?t=17048
(g0lg0thaZA Feb 15, 2007 4:16 am)
I searched my device for Temp0FOO files and deleted them. After that I was able to make changes to spreadsheets and save them without changing the name.
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Oh-my-gosh! This fixed my problem!
I read that link, I searched for that file, found 2 of them, deleted them, and now I can modify an Excel file, hit the X close button, and the file gets saved just like it shoulda!
A big note of thanks and sigh of relief for this fix!

I have tried to search for the mentioned file Temp0FOO but couldn't find it on my Omnia anyone can help me please

excel mobile on wm6 can't save to storage card

Hi,
I recently installed WM6 on my dopod 818pro. I found an issue that I haven't been able to figure out.
I simply cannot save a changed excel document to the storage card. I get an error "An error occurred saving '<document name>'."
If I move the document to main memory, i have no probs editing and saving it.
Has anyone hit something like this? Word seems to be fine with saving/editing documents on the storage card. I haven't tried powerpoint mobile.
For the record, I had no probs with excel on wm5.
Any Ideas?
Thanks,

It seems to be related to the directory as well..
I moved an excel file fro my documents in the storage card to another random directory. I have no probs saving the file in the new location (but also on the storage card)
I'm very confused!

solution to old thread but ongoing problem
If you can't save an Excel mobile file, only 'save as' a new file name...
Solution is to find and delete a file named Temp0FOO
This could be on your main mem or storage card (depends on where the problem Excel Mobile file is saved). Delete the corrupt temp file and all is well.
Worked for me on my WM6 Xv6800.

Nice one Danny!
I had issues with files not opening as well as issues with not being able to save them.
Your solution seems to have fixed both my problems (so far anyway). Fingers crossed it stays that way.
Cheers.

Thanks Danny.. U solved my problem big time..
I glad google took me to the right answer. I have been doing 'Save As' filename_xx where xx equals running number for as long as I can remember.
COOL!~~

Word Mobile unable to open word documents

For some strange reasons, now I'm unable to open word document unless the file size is real small like less than 10KB in size. I was once able to open files up to 110kB in size (although it seems to take ages for the spinning colored pie to render the vertical scroll bar).
The error message that I get is "A problem with the document was encountered and it cannot be opened."
I've googled this. Some suggest that it is due to missing template, which is certainly not so in my case. My template folder and files are sitting nicely in the my document folder in the device memory. Some also suggested that word mobile is unable to read desktop document files and that we need to save it as RTF file. I tried this, but it does not solve the problem. In fact, the document was created with word mobile originally.
Is anyone of you having this problem too?

Oh dear, this is a problem known to microsoft. This is no good.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911420
I had seen the same error message mentioned in this article appearing on my device before but I dismissed it as it came and went too quickly.
In this support note, microsoft thinks that it happens if the document is in SD card. But I have the same problem even if the document is on microdrive and device memory.
I transferred my document from SD card to the device memory and tried to load it in, and still have the same problem.

hrmm ive never had trouble opening any size word doc. Although conceivably I didnt start opening word docs much until I had TextMaker 2006 installed. But in all my times on WM ive never come across I doc I wasnt unable to open, except for word 2007 docx files, but thats due to compatibility so.

I was once able to open any size document too. Although I has seen thoses error messages, I was able to open with repeated trying. Then now it becomes very predictable - no problem withbreal tiny files, but errors if the files are big.
May be time for hard reset again?

eaglesteve said:
I was once able to open any size document too. Although I has seen thoses error messages, I was able to open with repeated trying. Then now it becomes very predictable - no problem withbreal tiny files, but errors if the files are big.
May be time for hard reset again?
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I also experienced a lot of problems after Textmaker installed.

I have no such problems with Textmaker and Planmaker installed...

jlingo said:
I also experienced a lot of problems after Textmaker installed.
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what's the nature of your problem? is it with text maker or word? Is it the same or different problem?

This is wierd. All of a sudden I am able to open all files regardless of size again. Did'nt have to do any hard reset.