Cant explore E200 from desktop

[Guest prjd]

I was trying to edit an XML homescreen to add the alarm plugin to an existing skin. I copied this across to my phone to see how it looked, and when i went to the Home section of Settings to select the new skin, it was missing. When i reopened Active Sync/Explore to try again, nothing comes up in the Explore window!

I tried deleting the partnership ans set up a new one; the device synchronises fine, but still nothing is there when you click on Explore. Have I really messed something up? Has this happened to anyone else?!

Help! :cry:

[Guest scott2eyes]

Did you disconnect and reconnect your phone before the problem started?

There's a problem with Activesync where it doesn't seem to register in Explorer sometimes if you disconnect and reconnect the phone with Explorer open- it will still synchronise with Outlook (I gather- I don't use it personally), and you can directly copy media files to and from the phone in Windows Media.

Rebooting the PC sorts the problem out.

[Guest prjd]

Thanks scott2eyes, that seems to have solved it. :)

I'd like to say that I will learn from this and stop trying to do things that are beyond my meagre talents, but that isn't going happen.

Thanks again for the promt reply and assistance.

[Guest scott2eyes]

No problem :)

By the way, if your homescreen still isn't appearing in the list in Settings but it has copied OK, it might be a problem with the XML code; if you try to open the XML file on your computer in Internet Explorer and there's a problem with the code, it will tell you exactly where it is- usually a bit of missing punctuation like a closing bracket.(ie. the kind of thing that you can spend ages searching for and never find...)