Bluetooth File Exchange

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From: Paul Mison
Subject: Bluetooth File Exchange
Date: 11:11 on 03 Sep 2003
So the Mac has wonderful Bluetooth support, apparently. (As long as 
you partake of the Jaguar koolaid, of course. Buying expensive new 
hardware helps too.) Yes, iSync does seem to work for me, so that's 
good.

Now, though, I have a camera phone. I've taken some photos. I borrow 
a dongle and start up Bluetooth File Exchange. Coo, it works! I can 
see a list of files, so I shift-click to multiple select the photos I 
want to download. It's not working, though. There's only one file 
selected at a time. Hmm.

I choose one photo, then, and double-click, and it's saved. Good, 
good. Maybe I can drag out instead? That'll save some time going 
through file dialogs. Oh, no, you don't support that, do you?

What happens when I click one of the column-sorting title bars then? 
The whole column turns the selection colour. Surely that's not right, 
is it? Of course all the files aren't really selected. The Get... 
button is dimmed. So it's back to double-clicking the thirty or so 
photos I have. Sigh.

It almost goes without saying that there's no useful information 
(file creation date, for example) available, nor a choice of views 
(it's list view, or, er, nothing).

Wouldn't it have been much nicer if BFE simply mounted the phone as a 
drive on the desktop, so I could use the Finder instead of some 
half-arsed reimplementation of it? Yes, it would.

Bah.

-- 
:: paul
:: compiles with canadian cs1471 protocol

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