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Category: Computers & Technology
 There are several ways to store applications and data on a Compact Flash card in a Windows CE Palm-size PC (such as the Philips Nino, Casio E-100, HP Jornada 420, etc).
If you are installing an application that applies itself to the Palm-size PC via a Windows 95/98/NT installer executable: When the instller asks you if you want to install the app in the "normal" location (or something to that effect), instead choose the other option (which is the flash card) on the pick-list presented. As a result, all (or almost all) of the application's files will be installed in a directory on the flash card.
If you're dealing with an application that does not have a nice Windows 95/98/NT installer--one that requires you to double-click on the device in the Mobile Devices window and actually pick a directory on the device in which to drop the new file: Simply go into the "Storage Card" directory and drop the file there, or in a subdirectory that you may wish to create therein. It's worth noting that these types of applications require you to manually create a shortcut of the main application executeable and drop it on the /Windows/Start Menu/Programs/..etc.. directory if you wish to see an icon for that app on the Start Menu (with the other applications).
If you want to store images, text files, HTML files, and other data files that are worked-on in some way by other applications on the flash card, there is a specific place you must put them. In the Mobile Devices window, double-click on your device, and then on the "Storage Card" folder. In this folder, create a directory called "My Documents". It is in this directory that you want to store all of your "data" files (or in subdirectories herein). The reson for this is that when you go to, say, load a JPEG image into some image-viewer application, the only directory that can be seen by the standard Palm-size PC app's open-file utility is "My Documents". When you create this directory on your Storage Card, the open-file utility will show you the contents of both the My Documents folder in the device's main memory and the My Documents folder on the flash card combined.
That's, in a nutshell, about all you need to know about storing on a Palm-size PC's flash card.
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