Sincerly,
Christopher Moran

I then edited a photo of my kid in his Halloween costume down to screen size and saved it to the card. While the card is mounted for transfer, it's invisible to your phone. I ran MountUSB again and it unmounted the card from my PC and the phone had access to it again. I pulled up the Gallery and was able to view the photo without problem.

It looks now like the issue is either with my specific laptop or with Mac. So I'm going to have to investigate further.

It shows that it's charging, so it's getting the power from the cable. It's not seeming to get the data. I'm wondering if it's the phone or if it's the cable. I have some old USB to mini-usb cables that came with digital cameras, but the small USB port on the phone is smaller than the small USB ports on the cameras. So unless I go buy a new cable, I can't test that theory.

Now, with my Treo, I'd just pop the card out and put it into a USB reader. No problem. I didn't transfer files so often that it was an issue. OTOH, with this, you have the card under the battery, so you have to remove the battery to get at it. Generally, though, I don't think there will be a great need to do large involved file transfers on any sort of regular basis, so I'm not going to die without USB connectivity.

The one other option I've found, but have not tried, is that there is a Samba ( SMB ) app for free in the Android marketplace, so I could conceivably use the local WiFi network to do file transfers. It's going to be significantly slower than a wired connection via USB, but for small files it could be less hassle. I'll give it a try soon and post my results.