Archos PMA400TM user manual Installing & Using Qtopia Desktop, Troubleshooting

17 Installing & Using Qtopia™ Desktop

Qtopia™ Desktop is a personal information management (PIM) program for Windows® based computers. You can use it alone as a manager for the PIM data on your PMA400 or you can use it as a synchronization tool to synchronize your Microsoft® Outlook® information with your PMA400.

17.1Installation

In the Archos folder you will find a folder called /Qtopia_Desktop_Install. Copy this folder to your desktop computer and run the installation program inside it. Once it is installed, it will add a ‘connection’ icon to the system tray of your PC. The icon shown here indicates that the PMA400 is not connected to the computer, and thus no synchronization can take place.

17.2Usage

Once you connect your PMA400 to your computer, it will be automatically recognized by your Window® computer and the system tray will show the connection icon indicating that you can now synchronize your PMA400 with your desktop computer. You can either launch the Qtopia™ Desktop program itself to have access to the calendar, todo list, and contact manager, or you can simply right click the icon in the system tray and select Sync. The data in the Qtopia™ Desktop program will be synchronized with the data on your PMA400.

There is a complete On-line help which explains each aspect of the program.

17.3Synchronizing with Microsoft® Outlook

By default, the setting to synchronize with Microsoft® Outlook is set. Thus, when you click on Sync from the system tray icon or Sync All from the Qtopia™ Desktop application, your PIM data will be synchronized between Outlook, Qtopia™ Desktop, and the PMA400. You can change settings for which data takes precedence in case of conflicts.

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Quick Sync from the System Tray Sync from the Qtopia™ Desktop Application

If you go to Settings in the File menu of Qtopia™ Desktop, you can uncheck the Outlook plug- in if you do not want synchronization with it. It will then just synchronize with the Qtopia™ Desktop program.

18 Troubleshooting

18.1USB Device Connection issues

Problem: I cannot get my PMA400 to be recognized by the computer.

Solutions:

•If using a USB hub, try connecting without using the hub (some hubs are not powered and may not work with the PMA400).

•If using a USB port in the front of your computer, try a USB port in the back. Front USB ports are often from non-powered hubs.

•Do not connect to a USB port repeated through a keyboard.

•If using a laptop computer and a docking station, try connecting without the docking station.

•If the Files Allocation Table (FAT) gets corrupted, the PMA400 may not show up in Windows XP for over one minute, and then it comes up as local drive. Use DOS Utility ChkDsk as shown below.

•Windows® XP may recognize the PMA400 hard disk but yet not assign a drive letter to it. Right click on My Computer and select Manage. Then select Storage, then Disk Management.

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