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- | ====== Storage Made Easy Android Cloud File Manager ====== | ||
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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 [[pricing# | ||
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- | ===== 2 Registration ===== | ||
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- | From version 1.6 you can now register in App' or you can just choose to [[https:// | ||
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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 package you are interested in using. The default is the free package which includes 5GB free storage from us and the ability to add 3 other clouds. You can use the drop down to the right of the cloud name to view all other packages available.\\ \\ Once you have completed selecting your cloud you will receive an Activation email to activate your account. | ||
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- | ===== 4 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)..\\ \\ You do not need to activate if you already registered for Storage Made Easy - just login. | ||
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- | ===== 5 First login ===== | ||
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- | On your first login after registration the App may 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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- | ===== 6 Adding your first cloud ===== | ||
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- | You can Add your first Cloud by choosing **//Cloud Providers// | ||
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- | ===== 7 First time refresh of file view ===== | ||
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- | At the end of the wizard, what we call a " | ||
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- | ===== 8 Security: Login / Data Transfer ===== | ||
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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.\\ \\ Note however that some versions of Android have a [[http:// | ||
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- | ===== 9 Security: Pin Lock ===== | ||
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- | The PIN Lock can be turned on from the Main Menu. It enables you to secure the App and will prompt you for a PIN on startup or if the App is backgrounded and then brought back to the Main view. | ||
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- | ===== 10 Security: Adding Clouds ===== | ||
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- | Where Cloud Providers support the delegate authentication model using what is called OAuth, we use it. This means that your user details are not exposed but you delegate access to Storage Made Easy. Clouds that work with delegate authentication are:\\ \\ - Box.net\\ - DropBox\\ - Google Docs\\ - GMail\\ - Google Sites\\ \\ In this model you can revoke access at any time\\ \\ A secure key is another authentication model. This is where you get two keys or user your password and a key to delegate access to your account. Clouds that use this model of authentication are:\\ \\ - Amazon S3\\ - RackSpace\\ - OpenStack\\ - S3 compatible clouds (such as Eucalyptus)\\ - EMC Atmos\\ \\ In this model resetting the secure key can effectively revoke account access.\\ \\ Other Cloud Providers use only the username and password authentication model. In this model any authentication details you provide are stored encrypted using an external seed to generate the encryption key. To revoke access in this model you simply need to change your account password. | ||
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- | ===== 11 Security: Encrypted files ===== | ||
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- | One of the benefits of uploading files to your Cloud from the SME Web File Manager and Desktop tools is that they are stored encrypted on the underlying Cloud (such as Google Docs, DropBox, S3 etc). When you do this only you know the key that is used, it is not stored with Storage Made Easy. If you lose the key then you will not be able to access the file.\\ \\ The key is used as the seed to generate the AES 256 bit encryption for the file. When you try and access this file from the Android client (and any of our other desktop or mobile tools you will be asked for the password you originally assigned before you can access the file. Once you provide this, the file is downloaded locally (unencrypted). | ||
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- | ===== 12 Main Menu Options ===== | ||
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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.\\ \\ Note that there are extended options available in the menu:\\ \\ - **Logoout**: | ||
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- | ===== 13 Adding File to your device using a web browser ===== | ||
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- | Once you click on the HTTP Sharing button from the menu in the prior step you will be taken to a screen where you can start the http / web server. Clicking Start Server will give you an address that you can visit to upload files.\\ \\ The HTTP Sharing service, when running, will appear in the Android notifications taskbar. When it is stopped this is removed.\\ \\ Files can be added to any directory \\ \\ %%**%%Note that you must be on the same WiFi network as the machine that tries to use the web address from a browser\\ %%**%% Note that on clicking Start Server for the first time, you may need to click it again as the first click completes an initialisation.\\ %%**%%Note that you should turn this off from a security perspective when you are not using it | ||
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- | ===== 14 Adding files to your device using an FTP Client ===== | ||
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- | Once you have click to access the FTP sharing from the Main Menu, Menu Options you will first need to assign a username and password. Once this is done you can choose to start the FTP Server and you will be given a FTP address to access from your FTP client.\\ \\ The FTP Sharing service, when running, will appear in the Android notifications taskbar. When it is stopped this is removed.\\ \\ %%**%%Note that you must be on the same WiFi network as the machine that tries to use the web address from a browser\\ %%**%%Note that you should turn this off from a security perspective when you are not using it | ||
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- | ===== 15 Simplified Menu ===== | ||
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- | Find the App too complicated ? 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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- | ===== 16 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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- | ===== 17 Navigating directories ===== | ||
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- | To navigate within directories, | ||
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- | ===== 18 File Menu Options ===== | ||
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- | When you have navigated to a file there are various options available, and the options that show will depend on the file type. The options are as follows:\\ \\ **Download and View:** Downloads the files to the local files folder and iif the file is associated with an App on the phone you will be prompted to open the file in the App\\ \\ **Download: | ||
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- | ===== 19 Cloud View of Documents ===== | ||
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- | Cloud view enables the viewing of documents [[http:// | ||
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- | ===== 20 Organization Shared Folders (Cloud File Server only) ===== | ||
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- | Business users of our Cloud File Server package will see that Organization Shared folders created by Cloud File Server Administrators are accessible from the Android client App. All ACL permissions on files are also applied. | ||
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- | ===== 21 Uploading pictures ===== | ||
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- | You can choose to upload a picture to any cloud directory and then choose from which application you wish to choose the picture from. Once the upload starts it is visible on the Android taskbar. You can upload multiple files. \\ \\ If you click on the upload entry in the taskbar you are then taken to an upload screen where you can choose to cancel it or remove failed downloads. | ||
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- | ===== 22 Uploading files ===== | ||
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- | You can upload a file to your cloud from the Cloud Files directory by clicking the Android Menu function and choosing the **//Upload file//** option.\\ \\ If you upload a file into one of the cloud mapped folders, it will always be uploaded onto the cloud that is mapped to that folder. So, if you upload a file " | ||
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- | ===== 23 Uploading files from other apps ===== | ||
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- | If you are in another App that has files you can use the Android ' | ||
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- | ===== 24 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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- | ===== 25 Cloud Clipboard: Sharing multiple file links ===== | ||
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- | When navigating files in the Cloud File Manager you can choose to add files from any cloud to the cloud clipboard. When your done, and return to the cloud clipboard to send links to all files from the same email, even if they are stored on different Clouds ! | ||
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- | ===== 26 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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- | 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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- | 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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- | From the Business Group members screen you can view existing business group members and add new 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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- | ===== 31 File Sync ===== | ||
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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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- | ===== 32 Enabling Scheduled Sync ===== | ||
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- | From version 2.1 of the product you can set up a scheduled sync between you cloud files/ | ||
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- | ===== 33 Local File Manager ===== | ||
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- | The local file manager view (accessible from 'Files on Device' | ||
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- | ===== 34 Cloud Notes Menu ===== | ||
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- | You can create notes directly in Storage Made Easy for Android. 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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- | ===== 36 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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- | ===== 37 Refresh Cloud files view ===== | ||
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- | Storage Made Easy provides an abstraction above many clouds. It works by initially creating a meta cache of file information. To understand cache / view options please see [[top5things/# | ||
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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.\\ \\ [[https:// | ||
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