How To Manually Transfer Data From Blackberry To Computer

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Transferring and downloading media files

Virtually transferring and synchronizing media files

You tin can connect your BlackBerry® device to your figurer to transfer and synchronize files between your device and

computer using a USB cable, or you can use Bluetooth® applied science to send media files to or receive media files from a

Bluetooth enabled device.
The USB choice in the dialog box that appears when you connect your device to your computer with a USB cable allows y'all to

drag about files from a folder on your computer to a folder on your device or media carte du jour. The media pick in the dialog box

allows y'all to transfer media files that are protected with DRM to and from your device. Both options allow y'all to use the

BlackBerry® Desktop Software to transfer files to and from your device.
If yous want to manage and preserve the information or the encryption that is associated with your media files when you lot

transfer files between your device and your computer, use the media option in the BlackBerry Desktop Software. To download

the BlackBerry Desktop Software, from your computer, visit

www.blackberry.com/desktop

and select the advisable selection

for your estimator.

Transfer a file from your computer to your device using your device as a
USB memory bulldoze

Yous must utilize the BlackBerry® Desktop Software to manage and preserve the information or the encryption that is associated
with your media files when you transfer files between your BlackBerry device and your reckoner.

1. Connect your device to your computer using a USB cable.
2. Do one of the following:

• If you want to transfer most types of files, in the dialog box that appears on your device, select the USB option.
• If you lot want to transfer media files that are protected with DRM, in the dialog box that appears on your device, select

the media transfer option.

3. If necessary, type a password. Your device appears every bit a drive on your computer.
4. Drag a file from a location on your computer to a folder on your device.

To view the transferred file on your device, disconnect your device from your computer and find the file.

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Transfer your media files from your estimator to your device using
BlackBerry Desktop Software

With the BlackBerry® Desktop Software, you lot tin synchronize media files, including iTunes playlists and Windows Media®
Actor playlists, to your BlackBerry device. To download the BlackBerry Desktop Software, from your reckoner, visit

world wide web.blackberry.com/desktop

and select the appropriate choice for your computer.

1. Connect your device to your reckoner.
2. On your device, in the dialog box that appears, select any of the file transfer options.
3. On your figurer, open the BlackBerry Desktop Software.
4. Click the media transfer option that best suits what you want to practice.

For more information well-nigh synchronizing media files, see the Assistance in the BlackBerry Desktop Software.

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Send a media file

Y'all tin ship your pictures and videos to applications that you take installed such equally Facebook® for BlackBerry® devices, and
YouTube® for BlackBerry devices. You can send only media files that you lot have added.
one. On the Home screen, click the Media icon.
ii. Click a media type.
3. If necessary, click a category.
4. Highlight a media file.
v. Printing the

key.

• To send a film or video, click Send. Click a message type or an awarding.
• To transport an audio file, click the send option for a message type.

6. If necessary, turn on Bluetooth® technology and cull a device or pair with a device.

Receive a media file using Bluetooth engineering science

To perform this job, you lot must plow on Bluetooth® technology.
When a media file is sent to your BlackBerry® device using Bluetooth technology, a dialog box appears on the screen.
1. In the dialog box that appears on your device, click Yes.
two. In the driblet-down listing, click a location to save the file in.
iii. Click Salvage.

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