XP File Transfer via Bluetooth

"Jabba" <cymry2002@notmail.com> wrote

>I set up a BT dongle recently on my pc - XP detected it and
>installed the drivers - and could transfer files to my
>phone / PDA by right clicking on the file and choosing
>'Sendto Bluetooth device'. It would then allow me to
>select the device and send straigh away.

> I then changed some software - reinstalled XP I think with
> the service packs (same as before) and now it asks me to
> choose the file I want to send at the end of the
> 'Bluetooth File Transfer Wizard' - similar to before, but
> it defeats the purpose of right clicking on a file and
> selecting 'sendto' if I have to reselect the file at the
> end of the wizard.
>
> Anyone seen this - more importantly, how to change it back
> to how it was?

I could never get right-click + send-to to work UNTIL I
accidentally discovered a little trick.

1. Make sure the phone's Bluetooth connection is on.
2. Right click on the Bluetooth icon in the icon tray and
pick "Send a file".
3. Use the wizard to send a file. It should go through.
4. Now right-click on some other file and pick "Send to"
then "Bluetooth device". This time the transfer should go
off as advertised.

For some reason, right-click + send-to fails on the first
try.

Similarly I discovered that if I try and send a file FROM
the phone TO the computer, the transfer always fails unless
I right-click on the Bluetooth icon in the icon tray first
and pick "Receive a file".

Right-click+send-to allows you to transfer several files at
a time to the phone by the way. However the wizard fires up
each time and you have to click "Finish" after each file.

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