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  Sync PC Directory to Android? "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-11-10 14:46 +0000
    Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? tony@mountifield.org (Tony Mountifield) - 2016-11-10 14:53 +0000
    Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 16:08 +0100
      Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-11-10 15:39 +0000
        Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 16:52 +0100
          Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-11-10 17:27 +0000
            Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Bob <Bob@the.builder> - 2016-11-10 11:36 -0600
            Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 19:08 +0100
    Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? AL <l45236747@invalid.com> - 2016-11-10 10:24 -0700
    Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Bob <Bob@the.builder> - 2016-11-10 11:27 -0600
    Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2016-11-10 18:31 +0000
    Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2016-11-10 19:24 +0000
      Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 21:29 +0100
    Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-11-13 08:36 +0000
      Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-11-14 09:28 +0000
        Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-11-14 09:41 +0000
          Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-11-14 10:21 +0000
        Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-11-21 23:55 +0000
          Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-11-22 08:44 +0000
            Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-11-22 17:49 +0000
            Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Piet <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> - 2016-11-22 21:35 +0100
            Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2016-11-23 08:37 +0000
            Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-11-23 09:31 +0000
              Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-11-23 12:37 +0000
      Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-11-15 00:39 -0500
      Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Piet <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> - 2016-11-15 09:41 +0100
        Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-11-15 08:57 +0000
          Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2016-11-15 17:45 +0000

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#36165

Jeff Gaines wrote:
> I went to check an email and found that the Mail app doesn't
> store mail locally, just down-loads it when you read it!

Maybe you've configured it to use IMAP? Then you might try
to configure it to use POP, although I can't recommend it.
And with POP configure it - if possible - "Leave mail on
server", to control deletion on a real computer.

-p

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#36177

Jeff Gaines <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 21/11/2016 in message <VA.00000c03.0107595e@me.invalid> Daniel James 
> wrote:
> 
>> The limiting aspect of Android is that you can only have a single
>> instance of any given app open at a time, so you can't switch quickly
>> between two documents in the same app.
> 
> Indeed, very frustrating.
> 
> The irony is I have a Toshiba WT310 tablet running Windows 8.1, nice bit 
> of kit with i% CPU, 4 GB RAM and one of those MMC things for storage.
> 
> Took it to the next meeting and all the documents I needed sat in the task 
> bar so I could call them up as and when. I went to check an email and 
> found that the Mail app doesn't store mail locally, just down-loads it 
> when you read it!

That's got to be configurable by a switch somewhere. I don't know of a
single client that doesn't cache at least some mail locally. In order to
save space most will cache only the latest n days worth.

Even the piece of shit outlook app on Android does it.

> Back to the laptop.....
> 

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#36178

On 22/11/16 08:44, Jeff Gaines wrote:

> The irony is I have a Toshiba WT310 tablet running Windows 8.1, nice bit of kit with i% CPU, 4 GB RAM and one of those MMC things for storage.

> Took it to the next meeting and all the documents I needed sat in the task bar so I could call them up as and when. I went to check an email and found that the Mail app doesn't store mail locally, just down-loads it when you read it!

Is there no other mail app. that you can use?
I presume this is an RT device, so not full Windows, and restricted to the Windows store for apps?

I've never used the Windows Mail app., preferring to use Thunderbird. Maybe there is some configuration item which allows local caching of mail. There are many mail clients for Android, some of which allow local caching.

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#36185

In article <e9l5v8Fu8uU1@mid.individual.net>, Nigel Wade wrote:
> I presume this is an RT device

Geoff said it had an i5 CPU (well, he actually typed i%, but we knew 
what he meant) so it's running real Win8.1. An RT device would be 
running on ARM.

-- 
Cheers,
 Daniel.
 

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#35923

On 13 Nov 2016 08:36:47 GMT, Jeff Gaines wrote:

>  However, 
> once I was in the meeting I needed to switch between the agenda, last 
> meeting minutes and various notes/submissions. This is just not possible 
> on an Android device and I found it very frustrating.

It's possible, with some preparatory grunt-work: get the things you need to
switch among to appear as web pages, and open up a fresh browser tab for
each one of them. It's relatively easy to switch among open browser tabs,
and that may help serve your purpose here.

Cheers, -- tlvp
-- 
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.

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#35926

Jeff Gaines wrote:
> However, once I was in the meeting I needed to switch between
> the agenda, last meeting minutes and various notes/submissions.
> This is just not possible on an Android device and I found it
> very frustrating.

You have experience with *all* Android devices to be able to
make such a general comment? For one, at least Samsung S3 thru
S7 offer precisely that: start and quit the apps you need, press
"Recent" and you can fast-switch between them all.

-p

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#35931

On 15/11/2016 in message <o0ehom$1lfc$1@gioia.aioe.org> Piet wrote:

>Jeff Gaines wrote:
>>However, once I was in the meeting I needed to switch between
>>the agenda, last meeting minutes and various notes/submissions.
>>This is just not possible on an Android device and I found it
>>very frustrating.
>
>You have experience with all Android devices to be able to
>make such a general comment? For one, at least Samsung S3 thru
>S7 offer precisely that: start and quit the apps you need, press
>"Recent" and you can fast-switch between them all.
>
>-p

I have about 8 Android devices, a mix of 'phones, phablets and tablets. 
They all have a "Recent" button of some sort but as far as I can tell have 
to reload a document each time I want to look at it. I have dusted off my 
Lenovo Tab 2 which runs Windows 8.1 and although it's not a good OS for a 
tablet it does have all the documents I need in the taskbar.

-- 
Jeff Gaines Wiltshire UK
The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant

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#35954

Jeff Gaines <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 15/11/2016 in message <o0ehom$1lfc$1@gioia.aioe.org> Piet wrote:
> 
>> Jeff Gaines wrote:
>>> However, once I was in the meeting I needed to switch between
>>> the agenda, last meeting minutes and various notes/submissions.
>>> This is just not possible on an Android device and I found it
>>> very frustrating.
>> 
>> You have experience with all Android devices to be able to
>> make such a general comment? For one, at least Samsung S3 thru
>> S7 offer precisely that: start and quit the apps you need, press
>> "Recent" and you can fast-switch between them all.
>> 
>> -p
> 
> I have about 8 Android devices, a mix of 'phones, phablets and tablets. 
> They all have a "Recent" button of some sort but as far as I can tell have 
> to reload a document each time I want to look at it. I have dusted off my 
> Lenovo Tab 2 which runs Windows 8.1 and although it's not a good OS for a 
> tablet it does have all the documents I need in the taskbar.

You could bring three of your devices and use each one for the different
tasks required in your meeting ;)

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