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Bakkendance
19-02-2008, 04:48 PM
I'm fairly new here and I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but here goes.

One minor thorn in my side has been the fact that I couldn't explore the windows folder from my PC when i had it active synced (and that i can't explore it at all from my mac but that's a different complaint altogether). It won't show up in the explorer window and typing it into the address bar always brought me to the windows directory on my PC. I couldn't find anything here about it so I decided to do some experimenting on my own and found that it was actually deceptively simple. All that you have to do is create a shortcut to your windows directory and put it somewhere you can get to (my documents seems as good as any) then use that to jump into your windows folder from your PC. voilą.

duprade
19-02-2008, 11:23 PM
On your PC, in windows explorer you need to go to

TOOLS -> FOLDER OPTIONS -> VIEW

and select "SHOW HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS"

then when you browse your phone, it will show you the Windows directory as well as other folders that are hidden on the phone.

Bakkendance
19-02-2008, 11:43 PM
even easier. good to know.