Backup just by dragging folders?

Total newbie with a new BlackBerry Curve 8330.
Regarding backing the thing up (the contacts, the photos, music files, everything...)
Can't I just plug the thing into a Mac with a USB cable, let it mount like a hard drive,
and drag/copy all the folders off it to the Mac?
If the thing every crashes, couldn't I then put a new mini-SD card in it, plug it into
the Mac, and drag everything back?
Will that not work? I don't care about syncing, making incremental backups, blah blah blah.
I would be quite happy to just drag an archive off the thing once in a while as simple folders.
Along the same vein, if I wanted to take out the 1 GB SD card that's in it and upgrade it to,
say a 4 or 8, couldn't I do that the same way? Drag everything to the Mac, turn the BB off,
put in the new card, turn it on, and drag everything back?
Thanks

Yes, you can do that (drag and drop with Mass Storage enabled on the Media Card) for anything in the media card.
For anything else (address book, calendar, messages, preferences, settings, etc.), no, you can't. You must use the Backup function in PocketMac.
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