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+ | ====== Android Storage Made Easy ====== | ||
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+ | Android Storage Made Easy enables you to manage, | ||
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+ | ===== 1 Getting Started ===== | ||
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+ | The sign in screen is where you can sign into your Storage Made Easy Account. You need a valid account with StorageMadeEasy.com to do this. There are many free accounts so all you need to do is [[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== 2 Registration ===== | ||
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+ | From version 1.6 you can now register in App' by clicking the Registration option from the menu. This takes you to a wizard. The first step is to enter your user details and also enter the verification code. | ||
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+ | ===== 3 Registration: | ||
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+ | Once you have entered the registration details you are taken to a screen where you can select the cloud you are interested in using. You can use the drop down to the right of the cloud name to view all clouds available. | ||
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+ | ===== 4 Registration: | ||
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+ | Once you have completed selecting your cloud you will receive an Activation email to activate your account. | ||
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+ | ===== 5 Activation email ===== | ||
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+ | Once you have registered you will receive an activation email. If you registered with the email address that you have access to from your phone then this can be accessed direct from your phone. Once it arrives you can just click on the link to authorise the email address and the account. This will launch the web browser and you will receive a message to let you know activation is complete.\\ \\ Alternatively you can cut the unique code and paste it into the activation code direct from the App (accessed from the activation menu option on the login screen). | ||
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+ | ===== 6 Welcome email ===== | ||
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+ | Once you have activated your account you will be sent a welcome email which details your username and also help and tool links. | ||
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+ | ===== 7 First login ===== | ||
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+ | On your first login after registration the App will detect that you have no clouds setup and will ask if you wish to create one. You should click "OK " to this. | ||
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+ | ===== 8 Adding first cloud ===== | ||
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+ | You will then be taken to a wizard where you can add the provider you first registered interest in, or select another if you have changed you decision. You can use the drop down on this screen to choose the provider you wish to use. | ||
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+ | ===== 9 First time refresh of file view ===== | ||
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+ | At the end of the wizard, what we call a "Cloud Sync" task will be started to refresh the view of your files through the Android client. You can wait for this to complete or exit the App and login later. The process occurs on the server side so the App does not need to be running. When you log back in you can check the status of this from the 'Cloud Tasks' menu option. | ||
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+ | ===== 10 Secure Login ===== | ||
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+ | If you are concerned about security of any information you wish to transfer you can choose to turn SSL on from the main menu. This can slightly slow down performance and upload / download speeds but provides encrypted data traffic using https. | ||
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+ | ===== 11 Main Menu ===== | ||
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+ | The first screen you see after logging in is the Menu. From this screen you can choose which functions you would like to invoke. This is the main menu screen you navigate back to/from your menu choices.\\ \\ From this screen you have the option to logout, simplify the menu, or get help which takes you to the online manual (internet connection needed). | ||
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+ | ===== 12 Simplified Menu ===== | ||
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+ | The simplified menu option removes the advanced options and keeps the basics available. You can easily change between views just by choosing this option from the menu. | ||
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+ | ===== 13 Cloud Files Menu Options ===== | ||
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+ | When you click on 'My Cloud Files' from the Main Menu, you are taken to the File Browser Screen. Here you can see all your Cloud Files and folders from a single cloud or many clouds depending on which clouds you have mapped to your account. | ||
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+ | ===== 14 File menu Options ===== | ||
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+ | When you have navigate to a file there are various options available. The default menu has options as to what you can do with the File. The options are as follows:\\ \\ **Download and View:** Downloads the files to the local files folder and if the file is a supported file type lets you view it.\\ \\ **Download: | ||
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+ | ===== 15 More file options ===== | ||
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+ | Clicking the " | ||
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+ | ===== 16 Navigating directories ===== | ||
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+ | To navigate within directories, | ||
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+ | ===== 17 Quick View ===== | ||
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+ | When in the cloud files view you can quickly download and view files by pressing on the file and holding. This will popup a menu options that enable you to quickly download or view the file. | ||
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+ | ===== 18 Uploading Pictures ===== | ||
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+ | When you navigate to a directory and have not yet selected a file, you will see two menu choices:\\ \\ 1. New Folder - enables you to create a new cloud folder.\\ 2. Upload Picture - enables you to upload a picture to this folder from you albums.\\ \\ Note that which file storage cloud these reside on (if you have a multi cloud account) will depend on which cloud has been set as your Primary Cloud Provider. You can check this by navigating to the Cloud Providers menu option and checking which one has the start against it, which designates it is the primary provider. from Providers \\ \\ The exception to this rule is If you are within a cloud directory (such as "My Google Docs", "My Amazon S3" etc) when files will always be uploaded to this cloud provider despite what cloud primary you have set to be the primary.\\ \\ You can also choose to keep your whole photo directory in sync with your cloud by adding the directory to be synchronised when within the 'My Syncs' view. | ||
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+ | ===== 19 Favorites Menu ===== | ||
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+ | Any file that is marked as a favorite in the File Menu is available for easy viewing From the Favorites menu. This is a handy way to get quick access to frequently used files.\\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ | ||
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+ | ===== 20 Sharing files using the ClipBoard ===== | ||
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+ | You can add files to the cloud clipboard when you are navigating your cloud files and then return to the cloud clipboard to send a link to all files from the same email. | ||
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+ | ===== 21 Cloud Tasks Menu ===== | ||
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+ | Cloud tasks represent tasks that you have either setup or that have completed on Storage Made Easy. These invariably represent one of three things:\\ \\ 1. Sync' | ||
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+ | ===== 22 Business Groups Menu ===== | ||
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+ | You can create new business collaboration groups directly from the Phone. Collaboration groups are groups you setup to share file content with all members. You only need to share a file with the Group and all members get an email letting them know the filename that you shared with the group and that it is available for them to view. You can find out more about business groups and collaboration [[collaboration/# | ||
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+ | ===== 23 Business Groups Actions ===== | ||
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+ | You can press and hold on a business group to perform further actions. You can choose to rename or delete the group, or view its members. | ||
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+ | ===== 24 Business Group Members ===== | ||
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+ | From the Business Group members screen you can view existing business group members and add new members. | ||
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+ | ===== 25 Invite Group members ===== | ||
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+ | From the Business Group Members screen you can choose to directly invite members from the phone by entering their email, your name and the message you want to send. The person you invite will receive an email with these details. | ||
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+ | ===== 26 Syncing Files ===== | ||
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+ | The Storage Made Easy Android Sync enables you to sync from a local directory to your cloud or from a cloud directory to your phone.\\ \\ To add a directory from your phone to be kept in sync within the root directory of your default cloud storage provider (if you have more than one cloud in your account, you can see which is root from the Cloud Providers screen, it will have a star against it)\\ \\ 1. Click My Syncs\\ 2. Click Add Folder (picture 1 above) - this will take you into Android Directory Structure (see picture 2)\\ 3. Navigate into the folder you wish to add and choose "Add to Sync" from the menu\\ \\ To add a directory from your cloud to the phone:\\ \\ 1. Click "Files on clouds:\\ 2. Click on the directory you wish to add to be sync'd to your phone (see picture 3)\\ \\ \\ To sync:\\ \\ When you are ready to sync:\\ \\ 1. Navigate to My Syncs\\ 2. Click on the directory you wish to sync from My Syncs\\ 3. Click Sync now\\ 4. Repeat for each directory you added, whether it is added from the phone or the cloud.\\ \\ Each Time you wish to refresh your Cloud Files view, all you need to do is to go to 'My Syncs', | ||
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+ | ===== 27 Local files Menu ===== | ||
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+ | There is a local file browser that you can use to go back to files that you have viewed and downloaded from the cloud that are stored in a local directory on the phone. If you choose to delete a file you can also choose to delete the file on the cloud.\\ \\ You can also navigate your directory structure and copy files to this folder if you wish. These files reside in the SD card directory within a directory called " | ||
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+ | ===== 28 Cloud Notes Menu ===== | ||
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+ | You can create notes directly in Android Storage Made Easy. There is no formatting, these are simply text files. The advantage of creating them in Storage Made Easy is that can be sync'd back to your underlying cloud, such as SkyDrive or Google Docs for example.\\ \\ You can also assign categories to notes which become folders on your actual storage cloud.\\ \\ To sync notes up/down you just need to click the sync button available from the menu options.\\ \\ If you have a multi-cloud account and change your primary provider then then memos could end up being stored on different clouds. You may want this, but then again you may not, so be aware of this. From the sync viewpoint it does not matter as all memos will still be sync'd back to the phone. | ||
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+ | There are various menu options that you have when you click on a note:\\ \\ **// | ||
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+ | ===== 30 Cloud Providers Menu ===== | ||
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+ | The Cloud Providers screen lets you change your primary storage provider. If you have a single cloud account you will only seen one option here but if you have an account that has more than provider you will see a choice. You can choose to set a different provider to be the Primary provider from the menu choices available when highlighting a provider and hitting the ' | ||
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+ | If you have uploaded any files direct to your cloud rather than through Storage Made Easy your cloud files view could be out of date. To refresh the view you can go to the Cloud Providers Tab, highlight the cloud whose view you wish to refresh and then choose to "Sync now" which will start the process of refreshing your files view. | ||
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+ | You can search for your files easily by clicking the search option on the Main Menu. If you have more than one cloud mapped to Storage Made Easy then the search will be done on the criteria you select against all clouds. For example if you have SkyDrive, Amazon S3, and Google Docs mapped to your Cloud and you search for '.doc files' then the search will be done against all Cloud Providers and the results returned. | ||
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