Make Windows automaticly accept a file over bluetooth?

October 10, 2006 10:55 PM

Anyway to automaticlly accept incomming files on a bluetooth connection in windows? I can do this in Ubuntu, but my server is running windows (don't ask). I want to be able to beam a pic from my phone to my server without having it ask me to accept the file... just AUTO ACCEPT DARN IT!

Extra points goes to someone who shows me that, and a way to have anything put in a given folder beamed to a given phone, but I'm much more interested in getting stuff off the phone then on it.

Thanks!

posted by TrueVox to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

A program such as AutoIt or similar can auto accept files, if your bluetooth software won't do it. On my windows computer this autoit script will automatically save the the files to the default location (should be easy to change the location as well):

While 1
	WinWaitActive("Bekräftelse på mottagna filer")
	Send("{ENTER}")
WEnd	

It just waits for a window named "Bekräftelse på mottagna filer" (swedish for "confirm received files") to open and then sends an Enter keypress to it. This assumes that the phone and computer is paired and authorized.
posted by rpn at 11:51 PM on October 10, 2006

It depends on the bluetooth software. Some only let you if you've previously exchanged authorizations and have a code in place.
posted by Mr. Gunn at 10:38 AM on October 11, 2006

Response by poster: Well, that's not going to be too much of a problem. It's a headless server, but I can Remote Desktop in, I'm just trying to stramline it for my fieance.

And RPN, that's a good idea, but (at least for me) windows won't even notice a connection until I open up a 1 time only "recieve file" window. Stupid windows...

However, I did download the program, and it's bloody cool. I wish I had found it before I went to Linux on my laptop.
posted by TrueVox at 11:34 AM on October 11, 2006