The following list describes the meaning of volumes and sub-folders for each of the views:
The volume/folder popup list provides an easy way to quickly go to any top-level volume or higher level folder in the current path.
If the current path is not that of a top-level volume, a folder-up button () for quickly going up one folder in the path appears to the left of the volume/folder popup.
The sort order popup does not appear for the Recently Opened view.
Regardless of whether the sort order is ascending or descending, folders in the list always appear before files.
The list has the four columns described here:
You can optionally hide the date and/or size columns through the Document List Options dialog to make more room for the name column.
To open a file, tap the file's name. To enter a folder, tap the folder's name. To get the context menu for a file or folder, tap it's icon or hold the stylus down on the item's name for more than a second. For more about the context menu, see file operations and folder operations.
In addition to being able to select a specific category from the volume/folder popup list, you can also select the [All] listing or the [Uncategorized] listing. With [All], you get a listing of all categorized documents located anywhere and all uncategorized documents located immediately within any of the favorite folders. With [Uncategorized], you get a listing of all uncategorized documents located immediately within any of the favorite folders.
\documents\Media files\document\iSilo
folder.
This is the recommended folder in the internal storage memory
in which to place the documents you want to view with iSilo™.
For a Sony Ericsson P900, this folder corresponds to the
P900\Phone Memory\document\iSilo
folder within the PC Suite
file manager desktop application.
\Media files\document\iSilo
folder.
This is the recommended folder on an external storage card
in which to place the documents you want to view with iSilo™.
For a Sony Ericsson P900, this folder corresponds to the
P900\Memory Stick\document\iSilo
folder within the PC Suite
file manager desktop application. Also for the P900, when using a
memory stick card reader to view the file system of the card, the
folder corresponds to the
\MSSEMC\P-Series\Media files\document\iSilo
folder on the card.
Some devices have the capability to have two or more storage cards mounted simultaneously. Viewing the contents of a favorite folder provides a unified view of the same folder across all mounted storage cards.
To add a favorite folder to the list, use the Favorite folder alias command in the folder context menu.
To determine the path of the folder associated with each alias, or to rename and delete favorite folders aliases, use the Edit favorite folders menu command.
Favorite folder aliases are always sorted lexicographically in the volume/folder popup list and in the Edit favorite folders dialog.
To list documents installed in the internal storage memory of the device, select the volume that begins with C: from the volume/folder popup list. Volumes are identified with a drive letter followed by a colon. In the case of the internal storage memory, the volume drive letter is C. Your device may have other internal storage volumes as well. In the volume/folder popup list, internal storage volumes have the device icon () to the left of them.
To list the contents of a folder located on a mounted external storage card, select the card volume from the volume/folder popup list and navigate to the desired folder. In the volume/folder popup list, external storage volumes have the card icon () to the left of them. In the volume/folder popup list, the name for the external storage card will probably begin with the drive letter D.
To open a file, tap the file's name. To get a context menu, also known as the file action menu, with a number of additional file operations, do one of the following:
Tap Done to accept changes you have made to the categorization of the file. Tap Cancel to cancel any such changes. Note that tapping Cancel does not revert any changes made to the category list, such as creation, renaming, and deletion of categories.
To remove the file from a given category, uncheck the box to the left of the category.
To create a sub-category, first select the category into which you want the sub-category created, then tap New. In the New category dialog, enter into the Name field the name of the new category, check the Sub-category checkbox, then tap Done.
To create a category at the same level as another category, select an existing category at the same level, then tap New. In the New category dialog, enter into the Name field the name of the new category, then tap Done.
Following are some additional notes about categories:
You can not rename a category to that of an existing category at the same level. If you attempt to do so, you get a message informing you that the category already exists.
If the category has sub-categories, all the sub-categories are also deleted. Any files in the deleted categories are removed from the deleted categories.
Note that deleting a category does not delete the files belonging to those categories.
In the Copy file dialog, select the Copy settings/categories option to also copy the document settings and categorizations of the document. Select Delete original after copy if you want to perform the equivalent of moving the file to the new location.
If you need more flexibility in copying files, you can use a third-party file manager.
To enter a folder, tap the folder's name.
For the Favorite Folders view and the Device & Storage Cards view, you can get a context menu by holding the stylus down on the folder's name for at least a second. The context menu provides the following operations for folders:
Invoking the command shows the Favorite folder alias dialog. The Folder path field shows the path of the folder. You can not edit the path shown. It is only present to show you the path for the alias. In the Alias field, modify the alias to your liking, then tap Done to add the alias. In the Favorite Folders view, the alias should appear as one of the top-level volumes in the volume/folder popup list.
The .pdb extension usually denotes files in the Palm database format. Files in iSilo™ format utilizes the Palm database format as the top-level storage format, so usually a file in iSilo™ format will have an extension of .pdb. Files in Palm Doc format also usually have an extension of .pdb since they also utilize the Palm database format as the top-level storage format.
Sometimes Palm Doc files may also have the extension .prc,
though that extension is usually used for Palm application files.
To rename a favorite folder alias, tap the alias in the list
to select it and then tap Rename. This presents the
Favorite folder alias dialog.
The Folder path field shows the path of the folder
associated with the alias. You can not edit the path shown.
It is only present to show you the path for the alias.
In the Alias field, modify the alias to your liking,
then tap Done to rename the alias.
To delete a favorite folder alias, tap the alias in the list
to select it and then tap Delete. Note that iSilo™
deletes the alias immediately without asking for confirmation.
Under Icon action, you can select what happens when you
tap the icon for files:
You can also select the mini-icons you want the document list
to show. The following list describes the mini-icons:
A document's local settings include the following items:
If you tend to keep a lot of documents around, you may want
to increase the limit. If you are tight on space and do not care
so much about the local settings of documents you have not viewed
recently, then you may want to decrease the limit. The actual
size of a local settings file currently depends mostly on how many
local bookmarks you
have created for the document. However, a rough estimate
of the size of a typical local settings file might be anywhere
from half a kilobyte to one kilobyte. Using this rough estimate,
a limit of 100KB should allow for at least the saving of the
local settings for the last 100 documents you have viewed.
For the Recent file list field, specify how many files
you want the Recently Opened view
to show.
While in trial or registered mode,
you can use the Free mode option to turn
free mode
on and off to see what that mode is like.
During the 30-day trial period, you can use the Show trial
period reminder option to enable or disable the
messages that let you know how many days you have left
in your trial period.
Text Files (*.txt)
Select Text Files (*.txt) on the List menu
to have the document list show files with the extension
.txt. Usually files with an extension of .txt are in a plain
text format.
Edit menu
Edit favorite folders
Use Edit favorite folders on the Edit menu
to activate the Edit favorite folders dialog to rename
and delete favorite folder aliases. The dialog has a list
with two columns. The left column shows the aliases and the right
column shows the associated folders.
Options
Use Options on the Edit menu to activate the Options dialog
to set options for the following:
List
Use the List page of the Options dialog to specify settings
that affect the document list view display. Here, you can
set the following options:
\documents\Media files\document\iSilo
folder
which have specified default categories and have never been opened.
Icons
Use the Icons page of the Options dialog to set options for the icon
that appears to the left of entries.
Settings
Use the Settings page of the Options dialog to specify settings
that affect the saving of a document's local settings
and the Recently Opened view.
iSilo™ creates an individual file in the
"c:\system\Apps\iSilo\Settings" folder for each document's local
settings for which it saves. By default,
iSilo™ automatically
saves the local settings for a document when you close the document.
You can change this behavior by changing the Local settings
field. The three possible choices are the following:
Each local settings file takes up storage space. Over time, if you
have viewed many documents, the cumulative space occupied by the
local settings files can add up. So by default,
when the amount of space used reaches 100KB, iSilo™
deletes the oldest settings files (e.g., based on when the local
settings were last written) until the space used goes down to about
90% of the limit. You can increase or decrease this limit by
changing the Space to use limit field.
Mode
Use the Mode page of the Options dialog to specify
trial and free mode settings.
Tools menu
System information
Use System information on the Tools menu
to activate the System information dialog so that you can
determine the user ID you need to provide in order to obtain
a registration code for a document that requires a registration
code. The user ID is provided in the User ID field.
document types
iSilo™ provides direct support for a set of standard
document types and a catchall for textually viewing the content of any
other document type, useful for viewing plain text files.
standard document types
catchall document type
You can use iSilo™ to open any other type of file
for viewing in text mode. This is generally only useful
for files in a plain text format as iSilo presents the
content as is. If the format of the content is binary
or a mix of text and binary, then you may see gibberish.
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