Syncing to Storage Card on PDA
December 5th, 2005
I use Juice to automatically download the podcasts I subscribe to into:
C:\Documents and Settings\\My Documents\XDA My Documents\podcasts\
ActiveSync then picks these up and copies them to my PDA (an XDA running Pocket PC).
The problem is that it copies them into memory on my PDA, rather than onto my storage card, where there's lots more space.
Getting ActiveSync to copy to the Storage Card involves tweaking the Windows Registry on both the desktop and in Pocket PC on my PDA. I run the XDA-Developers Edition of Pocket PC on my XDA. This allows you to edit Registry settings - just like you can on a desktop using regedit. As far as I remember (it's a long time since I installed the XDA-Developers OS) you can't do this on plain old ordinary Pocket PC.
WORDS OF WARNING
a) The XDA-Developers Edition has associated risks and, as far as I know, prevents you upgrading Pocket PC. For me this wasn't an issue as my XDA Mark 1 wasn't fit for upgrading.
b) Tweaking Registry settings should always be done with extreme care. Make sure you have backed up your systems (desktop + PDA) before changing anything.
PROCEDURE
1. On your PC, use regedit and go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services\Partners
2. This folder will contain a subfolder called something like 01492942 (or another hex number). In fact will probably contain several such folders. Find the one that contains a string value called NoSubFolderIn
3. Double click NoSubFolderIn and change:
\My Documents\
to:
\Storage Card\My Documents\
4. Expand the current Registry folder and go to Services\Synchronization
5. Double click DevicesSyncFolder and change:
\My Documents\
to:
\Storage Card\My Documents\
1. On your PDA, use Registry Editor (on XDA-Developers Edition), or similar, and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services
2. Edit NoSubFolderIn and change its value from:
\My Documents\
to:
\Storage Card\My Documents\
2. Edit FileSyncPath, making the same change.
That's it.
I make no guarantees.
But it worked for me.
Now my new podcasts go straight to my PDA whenever I connect to the PC. All I have to do is delete the old ones now and then to make space for new ones.
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