comparing iPhone with Windows?

[madsci]

I am running Windows XP Pro and iPhone 3GS with iOS4, and can't seem to figure out how to get Beyond Compare 3 to see my iPhone under My Computer, so I can copy over new photos, videos and Word/Excel/Text files created with iPhone QuickOffice.

In XP if I click Administration Tools > Disk Management, the iPhone does not show up in either pane of the disk manager.

I can see it in My Computer (no drive letter, it just shows up with a camera icon and the name of the phone ie "MyPhone1") and tried mapping a drive letter, but when Windows wants to know the path, I don't know what to put.

The name of the iPhone "MyPhone1" doesn't seem to work, neither do any VNC type path permutations such as "\\MyPhone1". I even tried "localhost/MyPhone1/" or "//127.0.0.1/MyPhone1/" (though I didn't expect those to work, I haven't set anything up in IIS, just trying stuff to be sure).

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Chris]

Beyond Compare 3 can only access devices that are assigned a drive letter.

Some mobile devices (phones, mp3 players, pdas) can't be assigned a drive letter in Windows. Supporting these devices is on our wish list for a future version of BC, but not possible in the current version.

[madsci]

Well I guess it's outside of your control how the iPhone & Windows interact. For now I'll just use a workaround of copying all files to my PC that have a modified date newer than last time, and then I can use BC with the files if I need to compare beyond that.