The MoStacks program on Windows and the MoStacks program on Symbian can talk to each other for easy transferring of stacks between PC and phone.
Before you can transfer stacks you must connect your phone to your PC with the standard PC Connectivity software from the phone manufacturer, using either the USB Sync Station or Bluetooth: If the phone icon is visible in the system tray in the lower right of the Windows screen, connection is established.
The MoStacks programs currently talk to each other over port 7777. If you use a firewall on Windows, you have to make sure that the MoStacks Windows program is allowed to connect to the net over port 7777 and act as a server on port 7777.
For transfers, the role of the Windows program is a purely reacting one, as a server that waits for requests from MoStacks on the phone.
If you try to transfer stacks while the phone is not connected to the PC the phone will show a dialog for connecting to the public Internet. Do not connect, cancel that dialog, confirm the resulting error and connect the phone to the PC.
If you try to transfer stacks while phone and PC are connected, but the MoStacks Windows program is not running, there will be an error, and transfers will not work.
The Windows program knows a special folder for stacks; only stacks in that folder are downloadable to the phone, and if you upload a stack from phone to PC, it always goes into this folder. Sub-folders within this folder are ignored. (This is a still rather simple and limited system that is waiting for enhancement in future releases.)
You can configure the location of this folder in the Options windows.
Default is a MoStacks sub-folder in the My Documents folder that the installer automatically creates.There are three functions on the phone for transferring stacks, in the menu Stack of the Start View:
Download new: Download a stack that is "new" i.e. present on the PC but not yet on the phone. You will get a list of all available stacks in a list box in a dialog.
Update from PC: Update a stack on the phone with a more recent version of the same stack on the PC, after you made changes to the stack on the PC that you want to copy over now to the phone as well. There will be a warning if there is a contradiction, i.e. if the file date of the stack on the phone is more recent than the file date of the stack on the PC, so there is the danger of overwriting changes on the phone.
Upload to PC: Update a stack on the PC with a more recent version of the same stack on the phone, after you made changes to the stack on the phone that you want to copy over to the PC as well. As with the previous command, there will be warning if there is a danger to overwrite changes (changes on the PC with this command).
Please note that there can be false alarms regarding those file-date based warnings if the clocks of the PC and of the phone are not correctly configured. Both clocks must have the correct time, and time zone plus optional daylight saving time offset information must be correct. (MoStacks internally works with UTC times, and if time zones are not correct, wrong times will result and with them possible false alarms.)