My wife and I are on vacation with our N95s and tired of repeatedly carpet-bombing friends and family with MMS pictures as our vacation progressed. I tricked my wife into installing Ovi Share and she and I notified everyone that we would no longer send MMS, but would SHARE our travels on OVI. As our trip progressed a lot of questions have come up. I am not too confident that posting here will get the answers I seek and I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask questions. We both downloaded the latest Ovi share app. 1. Is there some cool guide to ovi share? Something to answer questions such as: What exactly is ovi share, why would I use it, why do I care, what need would it meet and what solutions does it replace. I know a Nokia site offers video, but I am running on EDGE and lack the patience for a video download which may not play on my N95. 2. Is ovi share what I should be using to replace sending MMS messages throughout my trip? Is it for something else? 3. Not having 3G in the USA (which is either my fault, T-mobile's fault or Nokia's fault, depending on who I ask), I am forced to use EDGE. Many of these pictures/videos take a LONG time to upload to mymedia and it won't let me send another until the current send completes. Is there a way to allow it to stack up stuff in the outbox like every other messaging application? 4. Many of the transfers abort and it is unclear what was sent. Updating the share app often does not show the latest upload like the web page and I have sent the same files twice many times. How can I keep the mobile app in sync? How can I delete duplicates from the mobile app, or am I forced repeatedly to log in to that web site over EDGE? 5. I am not convinced that others actually can see my photos. Are they really shared? The mobile web site is unclear on this. I added a "shared" album but can't seem to get any photos into it. Why aren't they just shared? I managed to trick the contacts doohicky into making my wife a contact, but I can't see her photos on the web from my phone. I don't think she can see my photos either. 6. Reading the forums makes me think I need a Windows PC to get anything done. Is this true? I don't have one at home (we run Solaris) and I certainly didn't bring one on the trip. After all, the N95 is the "multimedia computer." Do I REALLY need a Windows box to do this stuff? . 7. The share app has an option called "My contact's media." Who is my contact and what is their media? My wife is a contact on my phone and even a contact on the ovi share site, but this is always blank. What is it? 8. The share app has a setting called "Publish all image data." The help topic says this will "automatically publish all image data." I have this enabled yet I still have several thousand images which were not automatically published. What does this do? 9. My contacts now have a field called "Share view." Is this related to Ovi Share? What does it do? How do I use it? Phew. Thanks for reading and any answers to any questions are deeply appreciated. Sincerely, Marty Posted from Opera Mini on N95 using a Stowaway keyboard in the French Quarter
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