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How to Transfer Photos to a Mac from the Blackberry Curve
I'm very excited to have used Bluetooth for my first time. Transferring photos to my Mac was a snap with my Curve 8320. Here is how I did it:
1) Turn Bluetooth on, on both the Mac and the Blackberry.
2) If your computer is located, you're prompted for a numerical code on the Blackberry. Make up a number. The purpose here is to make sure you're in control of the computer you're saying you want to beam to.
Immediately after, a prompt will pop up on the Mac to enter the same set of numbers.
2) Go to view your photos on the Blackberry. Select one you want to send and select to Send it with Bluetooth.
Voila!
The only thing I can't figure out is how to select ALL photos to do this at once.
Any ideas? And do you have other ideas of how to transfer photos? I don't have an SD card but I know you can plug a mass storage device into the Curve.
1) Turn Bluetooth on, on both the Mac and the Blackberry.
2) If your computer is located, you're prompted for a numerical code on the Blackberry. Make up a number. The purpose here is to make sure you're in control of the computer you're saying you want to beam to.
Immediately after, a prompt will pop up on the Mac to enter the same set of numbers.
2) Go to view your photos on the Blackberry. Select one you want to send and select to Send it with Bluetooth.
Voila!
The only thing I can't figure out is how to select ALL photos to do this at once.
Any ideas? And do you have other ideas of how to transfer photos? I don't have an SD card but I know you can plug a mass storage device into the Curve.
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All new Apple Mac computers are equiped with bluetooth. As long as you have synced the two devices together they should work accordingly. And i mean sync both. You need to add your phone to your mac's trusted bluetooth device list and add your mac to your bluetooth device (unless your device is a headset then why would you want to transfer a file.)
Then from your device you find your file then click menu button , scroll down and then send using bluetooth. Click on where to send the file and since your mac is a trusted device it will recieved the file.
oh ya and before you send a file, you need to know where ur file will be saved to so you should set that up first. (How?)
Right click on the bluetooth logo in the menu bar, scroll down to open bluetooth preferences..
Click on the sharing tab and there you can setup the folder or area that the device or other trusted devices can go or be allowed to browse. (oh and don't screw yourself and let the device have full access to your main HD)
Make sure that the three box's are checked ON for Bluetooth File Transfer, Bluetooth File Exchange, and Bluetooth-PDA-Sync. The key box's are to put a passkey for devices that can sync. If you click on each of the service name's it gives other options.
And thats how you can get your BB to transfer files to your mac.
This should work the same if you wanted to send a file from your mac to your device. ( Theoretically... I've yet to get my Curve to recognize the transfer file. I just get the failed message on my mac "Device does not have the necessary services.")
But now i see the faces on the bottom of this asking me to show everyone how this makes me feel... so um i guess its :) and :( and :P
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I've tried several ways to do this with my Blackberry Pearl and Mac running Leopard. Definitely the easiest way is the first one suggested by trufula. It takes a little while because have do files individually but the other methods take a long time to set up and then not assured that will work. Once in your finder, the photos are easy to import to iphoto.
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Inappropriate?Thanks for the info. I've got a Blackberry Pearl and haven't tried any phone to computer communication yet but need to soon.
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Inappropriate?I hate to say it, but probably the best way to do all of this is by plunking down money for third-party software like The Missing Sync for BlackBerry: http://www.markspace.com/missingsync_...
I hate the idea of having to pay for software to do this, and I don't even think this software works that well. Hopefully, Apple will improve its syncing with BlackBerry devices in the future, but I wouldn't hold your breath too long.
I’m sorry to say
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Inappropriate?If you store photos on the SD card, you can just plug your Blackberry in with USB and drag pictures out of the photo folder. Much faster.
MicroSD cards are less than 40 dollars for the 2gig at Costco. Make the investment, seriously. -
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Inappropriate?I've tried several ways to do this with my Blackberry Pearl and Mac running Leopard. Definitely the easiest way is the first one suggested by trufula. It takes a little while because have do files individually but the other methods take a long time to set up and then not assured that will work. Once in your finder, the photos are easy to import to iphoto.
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Inappropriate?All new Apple Mac computers are equiped with bluetooth. As long as you have synced the two devices together they should work accordingly. And i mean sync both. You need to add your phone to your mac's trusted bluetooth device list and add your mac to your bluetooth device (unless your device is a headset then why would you want to transfer a file.)
Then from your device you find your file then click menu button , scroll down and then send using bluetooth. Click on where to send the file and since your mac is a trusted device it will recieved the file.
oh ya and before you send a file, you need to know where ur file will be saved to so you should set that up first. (How?)
Right click on the bluetooth logo in the menu bar, scroll down to open bluetooth preferences..
Click on the sharing tab and there you can setup the folder or area that the device or other trusted devices can go or be allowed to browse. (oh and don't screw yourself and let the device have full access to your main HD)
Make sure that the three box's are checked ON for Bluetooth File Transfer, Bluetooth File Exchange, and Bluetooth-PDA-Sync. The key box's are to put a passkey for devices that can sync. If you click on each of the service name's it gives other options.
And thats how you can get your BB to transfer files to your mac.
This should work the same if you wanted to send a file from your mac to your device. ( Theoretically... I've yet to get my Curve to recognize the transfer file. I just get the failed message on my mac "Device does not have the necessary services.")
But now i see the faces on the bottom of this asking me to show everyone how this makes me feel... so um i guess its :) and :( and :P
I’m unconcerned
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Inappropriate?gotta luv SEO. I forgot how to do this so googled photos blackberry curve mac and my post was the first result :) -
Inappropriate?Awesome!
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Inappropriate?i used to be able to do file transfer via bluetooth to OSX Leopard, but there is no longer file transfer. My BB 8300 keeps saying failed to find service.1 Comment Add a comment
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I have the same problem --- does not have service. -
Inappropriate?I have been trying to move some photos from my Curve 8310 to my new MACbook today and am having the same problem nedrebo is having, it states "failed to find service". I've paired the two without issue. I can't seem to find any software on the web that will let me move the photos. Any ideas? -
Inappropriate?Make sure that you have "Bluetooth Sharing" enabled in your Mac's System Preferences > Sharing pane.
(This is for Leopard 10.5)
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ur amazing mjs. i have lookd all over the internet to find the right answer, i followed all the steps n urs was the last final key!!! thank you thank you thank you for everyone that posts comments n help others!!
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Inappropriate?Here is what I found to transfer all the pictures from Blackberry to Mac. It works. All you need to do is to turn on the media card supports at your BB.
To turn on media card support on the BlackBerry smartphone
1.From the Home screen, click Options > Media Card.
2.Set the following options:
a) Media Card Support - On
b) Mass Storage Mode Support - On
c) Auto Enable Mass Storage Mode When Connected - Yes
To transfer media files between the media card and the Apple Macintosh computer
1.Connect the BlackBerry smartphone to the Apple Macintosh computer via USB. A storage drive icon appears on the screen of the computer.
2.Open the storage drive icon to display the contents of the media card.
3.Drag and drop or copy and paste the media files between the Apple Macintosh computer and the media card.
All the best.
ISTANBUL.
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Thanks!
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thank you this definitely did the trick!
