22 Jul 07 What do you think about automatically coping your pictures from your N80 when you get home?

What do you think about automatically coping your pictures from your cell phone when you get home?
If you are using Kubuntu or any other linux with KDE as your UI you can do it very easilly.
I’m very happy with the integration I’m getting from my Kubuntu with my N80 …
And if you use any other linux flavor, you can configure it too …

Here is a step by step for you to get your pictures copied from your Symbian based device to your linux box, if your device is no a N80, you may have to change some little settings, but if it has bluetooth you can do it too …

All you need is the kdebluetooth package installed, and a bluetooth dongle on your linux box (or builtin support for BT).

1. First open “System Settings” from the K menu.
   
2. Click on the Bluetooth settings.
   
3. Then on Device Discovery, then on Add New Job.
4. Select Photo Copy
   
5. And type a name for it, I’ll use CopyPhotosN80.
6. The name can not have spaces on it.
   
7. Click OK
8. Then select the Job, and click the Configure Button
9. It will open the generated script with KEdit (so, if you do not have it installed, you will have to install it first)
10. You have to ajust the following settings on the opened script.
1. TARGETFOLDER – for me it is TARGETFOLDER=’/home/urubatan/Pictures’
2. SOURCEFOLDER – I have configured the default for my N80 to save the pictures in the miniSD card, so, for me the setting for this is: SOURCEFOLDER=’:11/E:/Images’
1. You can easily get this setting by browsing your device with Konkeror, and copying all the path after the device address.
3. TARGETFILEPREFIX – this is optional, but I have set it to: TARGETFILEPREFIX=’Image’
11. Save the script
12. Make sure the job you just created is checked.
13. Select it, and click Execute this job now. to test it.
14. Now you can select the Job, Select the option Listed Devices Only, and Add Device
15. Select your cell phone, just to make sure this will run only for your cell phone.
16. That is all …

Now, every day when you get home, all your pictures will get automatically copied to your home computer.
If you have read the other script names, you know that this KDE interface have a lot more options …
I’ll talk more about this later, but you already know that with the same script, you can copy any kind of files from your cell phone to your computer, and with a little more work, you can do the opposite too …

I hope this tip to be helpful for any one that takes the time to read this, if you have any doubt just ask …
And if you do not know how to do some thing with your cell phone and your linux box together, please let me know, I’ll try to solve the problem for you

PS.: if you comment more, I’ll post this tips more frequently …

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