Q: Where is the Windows Phone App for Mac and how do I update it?

Ok thanks for that. I'm still on 10.9.5 because I dare not update to ElCapitan or the one before (I'm on the one before that whatever it was called) because of reports of it trashing the photo library (yes I have a backup, but the hassle is not worth the apparent minor benefits of the new versions of OSX - I really don't care what it looks like). The Windows Phone app you kindly linked works fine, but I'm disappointed to see that it only handles media (photos, music etc) - I thought it was going to sync contacts as well and possibly text messages. Or even let me write texts on my macbook and use the phone to send them.

Anyone any ideas on how to sync contacts and text messages between a macbook and a nokia lumina with Win Mobile 8.1?

Does this trick work also with Windows Phone 10 (Lumia 950 XL)? I couldn't get it to work .

Does anyone know of a program I can install on vitrual box on my  mac that will interface with the windows phone? I am running XP in virtual box

Hi,

Thanks to everyone for their feedback so far, but I'm still stuck. I'm having a nightmare transferring music files from my macbook to my windows phone (nokia lumia 502).

I've never had the windows phone app for mac and am unable to find it now.

It's unclear how you do the "change extension trick" using nokia photo transfer. If anyone can give greater detail on how to do this, that'd be great thanks.

Also, even if I could get this to work, I don't see how this would help me remove files which are currently on my phone's memory card. I have limited space on my phone's memory card. Really, I need to be able to connect the phone to my macbook in such a way that I can delete old music off the card and then transfer new music onto it from my macbook.

Unless I'm mistaken, One Drive is completely useless unless you're online at the time? I've got a very limited data package and live in the middle of nowhere, so this unfortunately isn't much good to me. Ideally, I'd be listening to music on my phone around 6 hours a day, so I really need an offline listening option.

On every old phone I've had, as soon as I connected it to my macbook by usb, when I went to Finder on my macbook, my phone would show up as a device and I could manage files on my phone's memory card easily.

I'm thoroughly unimpressed with this new windows phone so far. Everything's a struggle with it.

Windows and Apple's inability to work with each other is ********.

I'm certainly not going to buy a windows computer, because they're ****. Equally, I'm in not going to buy an iphone, because their batteries stop working in the cold (which is an issue, because I live in a ski resort!).

If anyone's got any other suggestions, I'd really appreciate them.

Thanks

Nick

Thank you. I had to go back in the time machine to re load the app and then followed your instructions. Excellent. Heartfelt thanks from an old(ish) Brit.

Thank you to Dalini (and others)

This has been working with Capitan 10.11.3 and a Lumia 635 in W8.1

WP app was 3.1.1

Regards

Hi Guys,

I m planning to get  lumia 950 soon & what to sync my stuff with my iMac, been mac users since a decade & can't go back to Windows Desktop,

anyways i saw the method of getting it to work on this thread, just wanted to know if this method of changing usb library files of the windows app will work on OSX 10.11.4 ?? Also will the Windows app then sync photos with photo app or iPhoto on OSX?

Thanks. 

Hi, I found that the easiest way (have a Windows Lumia 950) was to buy a microSD card, go to Settings/System/Storage and set the card as default save location. I then transferred the data to and from the mac via the SD card...

Hope that this helps

hmm thats nice but do you have to remove the sd card every time from the phone or is there a way we can make the mac read the sd card through usb?

Thanks.

I'm afraid that you have to manually remove the card and connect with a microSD adaptor or USB card reader. This is good enough for my requirements, as it's very easy to access the card on the 950, with others it may be more tedious. I haven't had any joy connecting via USB or bluetooth. The phone is recognised, but the mac has no permission to access data on the phone. I've had a quick look in the developer mode, but even there I don't see any possibility to change the permissions to allow access. As others mention, One drive is painfully slow, but it may be good enough if you need to transfer a few isolated files...

I just upgraded my AT&T Lumia 640 from Windows Phone 8.1 to 10. Everything is working very well. A pleasant surprise is the Windows Phone App for Mac is also working perfectly connecting to Windows Phone 10 OS on my Lumia 640. The app did notice that the phone's files were reformatted, and suggested to click ok to ensure the phone and the Mac would always now be in sync.

So good news for Lumia Windows Phone owners who are hesitating to upgrade to version 10. Have no fear, go ahead, and enjoy. No need to transfer files by taking out the SD card and reinstalling into the phone each time (how painful!).

Hi,

I found the following link with files which may help you with the updated files.

"http://irantorrents.com/?p=346483"

Also you can do a search on "http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mobiledevices/forum/mdwindows-mdupdate/window s-phone-app-on-mac-running-os-x-el-capit…"

Hope that helps.

I encountered this post also before because I was getting frustrated with the same situation.

I want to share the solution I found though, here it is

http://www.msshaunoftheday.com/2016/06/Finally-Found-The-Windows-Phone-App-For-M ac-I-Need.html

I took a video showing it works and posted the link in that post.

Thanks a bunch, man. Worked for me.

THANK YOU! I can now sync to my Zune.