What are the limitations to Mobile2003 file system?

[Larry_Lovell]

I've recently switched from PalmOS to PPC, and my new h2215 running Mobile 2003 is easy to use and the apps (especially Pocket Excel) are much better than the Documents-to-Go strategy on Palm.

But one thing that has really frustrated me so far is the apparent OS restriction on being able to open documents on storage cards. Unless I am mistaken Pocket Word and Pocket Excel (and other apps I have downloaded and installed) only search the "My Documents" folder and one sub-folder level on an SD or CF card (I have both installed). I find this very frustrating since it forces me into a very "flat" file hierarchy, which, in turn, makes for lots of scrolling -- especially on the Word and Excel "Open" menus.

Am I missing something?

I have downloaded and installed Pocket Explorer and it lets me navigate to files and open them, but it also sometimes opens a Pocket Notepad (TXT) file in Word rather than in Pocket Notepad, even though the icon showing is a Pocket Notepad icon, and not a Word icon. I have Word set to open only Word (DOC) files. So, apparently there is a related registration problem here, too.

Any ideas or suggestions?

[Pony99CA]

But one thing that has really frustrated me so far is the apparent OS restriction on being able to open documents on storage cards. Unless I am mistaken Pocket Word and Pocket Excel (and other apps I have downloaded and installed) only search the "My Documents" folder and one sub-folder level on an SD or CF card (I have both installed). I find this very frustrating since it forces me into a very "flat" file hierarchy, which, in turn, makes for lots of scrolling -- especially on the Word and Excel "Open" menus.

Am I missing something?

No, it's just a stupid restriction that some applications have.

I have downloaded and installed Pocket Explorer and it lets me navigate to files and open them, but it also sometimes opens a Pocket Notepad (TXT) file in Word rather than in Pocket Notepad, even though the icon showing is a Pocket Notepad icon, and not a Word icon. I have Word set to open only Word (DOC) files. So, apparently there is a related registration problem here, too.

Get a registry editor and ensure that .txt files are handled by Pocket Notepad. If you don't have one, a free one is available from Philippe Majerus (http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/RegEdit/).

Any ideas or suggestions?
Be glad you have a file system. :-)

Steve

[davidspalding]

If Pocket Explorer is acting screwy (I tried it for a few months), try Ghisler.com's Total Commader CE instead. I like it better. YMMV. (It also has a nice notepad app included.)

[Janak Parekh]

No, it's just a stupid restriction that some applications have.
And, to be more precise, it's a stupid restriction on the "Open" dialog, and that's all. Nearly every CE program supports arbitrary folders, but finding the file is tricky.

--janak