2On your smartphone, tap USB Drive. On your computer, your smartphone appears as a removable drive.

3On a Windows computer, if the Found New Hardware wizard opens, click Cancel to close the wizard.

4Open My Computer (Windows XP), Computer (Windows Vista/Windows 7), or Finder (Mac), double-click the drive representing your smartphone, and delete the files or folders.

5End the connection safely. If you do not eject safely, your smartphone resets when you disconnect the USB cable:

•On a Windows computer, right-click the drive representing your smartphone and click Eject.

•On a Mac computer, from your desktop, drag the drive representing your smartphone to the Trash. Trash changes to Eject.

6Disconnect the USB cable from the computer and the smartphone when the USB drive screen is no longer displayed on your smartphone.

Copy music, photos, and videos using third-party software

Besides using USB Drive mode to copy your photos, videos, and DRM-free music between your computer and your smartphone, you can also use solutions available from third-party software developers (sold separately) that facilitate the transfer of media files to your smartphone. For more information, open the browser on your computer and go to palm.com/sync-solutions.

KEY TERM DRM-free:Describes a file that is not protected by Digital Rights Management. DRM-free files can be copied as many times as you like and can be played on your Veer.

Overview: Get your personal data onto your smartphone

Your personal data consists of the following:

•Your contact list (names, phone numbers, street and email addresses)

•Your calendar events

•Your tasks (to-do list)

•Your memos/notes

On your computer, you typically store such personal data in organizer software like Microsoft Outlook, Palm Desktop by ACCESS, or the Mac’s iCal and Address Book software.

It’s also likely that you store some personal data in accounts that you created on the web. These are called online accounts. Sometimes you’ll hear that data stored in online accounts is stored “in the cloud.” That’s just another way to say that your data is stored on a server that you access through the Internet. For example, if you have a Google/Gmail or a Yahoo! account, you have a contact list stored in the cloud. You may even use the calendars in these accounts to keep track of your schedule, so you may also have calendar events stored in the cloud.

Finally, you may have important phone numbers stored only on an old phone. You no longer use that phone now that you have a Veer, but you want those numbers on your new smartphone.

You want to be able to access all this data on your smartphone. This section explains how you can do that. The actual how-to part of getting your personal data on your smartphone is pretty simple. But before you take that step, we recommend that you spend some time thinking about where you want your personal data to be stored and how you want to access it.

On your smartphone and in the cloud: You can set up a sync relationship between your smartphone and an online account in the cloud. This enables you to create and change data in one place—on your smartphone or in the online account—and have it show up in both places.

Chapter 5 : Copy files and sync your personal data

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