File exchange and V550

I have managed to pick up an old motorola V550.
I was very surprised that bluetooth worked with the mac for contacts and calendars, I don't believe it used to perhaps the latest update sorted this.
Anyway the iSync works fine, however bluetooth file exchange Validates the phone just fine then when it begins an upload of a tune or piccie or what ever it just says preparing, and eventually times out.
Is there anything I need to do to make this work, or does anyone have experiences using this phone with the mac and knows I should give up lol.

File Transfer allows a remote device to browse a specified folder. It can receive and send files to and from that folder. Additionally, it is possible to rename and delete files. You should set the folder to your user's inbox rather than the Desktop. Your current setting is dangerous.
File Exchange allows a remote device to send you a file. That's it. Nothing else can be done than sending you a file.
Personally, I highly recommend to turn off, require pairing and set the folder to your user's inbox for both services. Normally, there is no need for them. If you want to get a file of a remote device, you use the Bluetooth menu > Browse Device… option to use the File Transfer service of the remote device. On a computer like a Mac, providing these services is limited to some domains aka not useful for most users. Additionally, these are security risks.
Mac OS X tends to introduce bad defaults of Preferences. Additionally to turn these off, make sure your Bluetooth is invisible and Apple Address Book > Preferences > vCard > 2.1 (UTF-8) is set. This are the most problematic defaults related to Bluetooth I am aware in Mac OS X.

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Heres a site you might want to look at. I can't stress enough how important it is before you can transfer, to add the feature on Bluetooth. I have found it works better. You need to do it in the Bluetooth Preferences. Make sure you can sync it with everything else before trying File Exchange.
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TS3048 Bluetooth File Exchange had been started but not by me?

Bluetooth was off.
I had however checked and confirmed bluetooth was off, since some other device seemed to have had bluetooth activity that was not initiated by me.
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