McFile is a freeware file management utility without which an expansion card
is barely worthwhile. McFile allows you to move (or copy) files to and from the
card, create "folders" on the card, move files among folders, etc. To
do this, it provides views of both the card's "Virtual File System" as
well as the Palm's RAM. If you have used File Manager or Windows Explorer in
Windows, you will have no trouble with McFile.
Example
Tasks |
Three
example tasks will be shown (after a review of the basic UI elements):
- Create a new folder on the card.
- Move files from one folder to another.
- Move files from Palm RAM to a folder on the card.
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Explanation
of User Interface Elements |
McFile
utilizes a few non-standard interface elements, and the image below
details most of the functionality on a single screen. A few things to
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- McFile uses the abbreviation "MS"
to refer to the expansion media (with MS referring to
the Memory Stick of the Sony Clie devices).
- Tap the icons at the bottom left to change
between Palm RAM and expansion card.
- Folders are not available for Palm RAM.
- Folders may hold files and/or other folders.
Create a hierarchy of folders to organize data.
- The Copy, Move and Del (for
"Delete") buttons act on items you have selected (by
tapping the checkbox next to an item). First select the item
that you want to act on and then tap the button. You can
select multiple items and then perform the same action on all
of them
- The Mark button does not work like the other
buttons. It allows you "mark" or "select"
files. For example, you can use the button to "Mark
All" files in the folder or to "Invert" your
selection (i.e., all items that were unmarked are marked and
all items that were marked are unmarked). Think of this as a
"Select" button, but you probably will barely touch
it.
- The folder at the top of the list (followed
by "..") represents the "parent" folder.
So, you if you are in the "/Palm/Launcher"
directory, tapping that folder would change the display to the
"/Palm" folder (this is actually a left-over from
DOS!).
- The dashed box represents the current folder
(in the screenshot, the current folder is "/PALM").
If you tap on that box, you will be presented with a dialog
box that allows you to create or rename folders.
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The
screenshot below shows the "pop up" that appears when you tap
the title of a Folder or File. This, for the most part, is a
"shortcut menu" that lets you take action on that single item.
The second screenshot shows the "Attribute" screen. |
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- "Copy (Palm)" copies the file to
the Palm RAM.
- "Copy (MS)" copies the file to a
to-be-specified location on the card.
- "Move (Palm)" moves the file to the
Palm RAM.
- "Move (MS)" moves the file to a
to-be-specified location on the card.
- "Rename" lets you rename the
selected file or folder.
- "Delete" lets you delete the file
from the card or RAM.
- "MailAttach" apparently lets you
attach the file to an e-mail, but I have not used this.
- "Beam" will beam the file to
another Palm user.
- "Attribute" will show the
attributes for the file
- "Mark" acts the same as tapping the
checkbox (that is, it selects the item).
- "MS <-> Palm" changes the
view between the Palm RAM and the card.
- "Cancel" dismisses the dialog box.
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Example
Task #1: Creating a folder. |
This
task involves creating a folder, titled "NewFolder" within the
Palm folder. |
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