User manual LAPLINK LAPLINK 2000

[. . . ] Copyright Notice No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any human or computer language, in any form or by any means, without the express written permission of LapLink. comTM, Inc. , 18702 North Creek Parkway, Bothell, Washington, 98011, U. S. A. Trademarks LapLink. com, the LapLink. com logo, LapLink, SpeedSync and SmartXchange are trademarks or registered trademarks of LapLink. com, Inc. Acrobat and the Acrobat logo are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated or its subsidiaries and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Patents ® SpeedSync U. S. Patent Number 5, 446, 888 This product may contain one or more of the following licensed products: RSA Data Security, Inc. [. . . ] To move the files, hold down SHIFT and your left mouse button as you drag them to the target folder. Step two: select the files In the opposite File Transfer window, select the files you'll be transferring to the target you just displayed. x If you drag without using CTRL or SHIFT, files are copied when you drag to a different drive or computer and moved when you drag to another location on the same drive. 83 Navigating through drives and folders Transfer window is a left The side for Each File through drives and split intoclick orand a right side. drive leftfolderistodesignedand navigating folders: double-click a or open it display its contents. Commands on the View menu let you change the appearance and the order of the contents. Click a drive or folder to open it, without showing its contents. Double-click a drive or folder to open it and show its contents. Click a plus sign to show the contents of a drive or folder without opening it. Navigating through drives and folders Follow these guidelines to navigate through the left side of a File Transfer window: j Double-click a drive or folder Opens and expands the drive or folder, displaying its subfolders immediately below. (Double-clicking is the fastest way to navigate downward in a hierarchy of folders. ) j Click a drive or folder Opens the drive or folder without expanding it. Want to locate a particular folder or file?Typing the letter again finds the next occurrence. To change the appearance of the items displayed on the right side of a File Transfer window: e On the View menu, click one of these commands: Large Icons, Small Icons, or List. Try the different views to find your preference. To return to the original view, click Detail. Sorting files and folders As an additional navigational aid, you can filter files and folders according to names and dates. On the View menu, click Filter. j Click a plus sign (+) Expands the drive or folder, displaying its subfolders immediately below. j Click a minus sign (-) Collapses the drive or folder, hiding its subfolders. Regardless of the view, you can rearrange the folders and files on the right side of a File Transfer window according to name, size, date, and so on. To change the order of files and folders: e Changing the view When you open a drive or folder, you see its contents--subfolders and files--on the right side of the File Transfer window. By default, the contents appear in Detail view: file name, size, type (based on the MS-DOS name extension), modification date, and attributes. On the View menu, point to Arrange Icons; then click one of these commands: By Name, By Type, By Size, By Date, or By Attributes. x If you are displaying files in Detail view, you can sort them by name, size, type (file name extension), modification date, or attribute: click the corresponding button at the top of a column. Clicking the same button again reverses the order. 85 Selecting files and folders left only time. On theside, side of a File Transfer window, you can selectselect one folder at apoint toOn the right you can select multiple folders and files. To select several items in sequence, click the first item; then hold down SHIFT while you click the last item. To select items out of sequence, hold down CTRL while you click each one. To cancel an individual selection, hold down CTRL, and click the item. Select a group of items by dragging a selection box around them, from right to left. Select several items not listed together by holding down CTRL while you click the items. 86 You must select a folder or file before you can copy or move it. When you select an item, its name and icon are highlighted. You can select a single folder on either side of a File Transfer window. You can select files and multiple folders only on the right side. . Selecting files and folders x By default, selecting a folder selects all of its files and its subfolders. (You can always override this setting when you are asked to confirm a copy or move operation. ) To select a single file or folder: To select folders and files using the Select By command: 1 On the File menu, click Select By. You can specify several criteria at once by typing them one after another and inserting a space or a comma between them. [. . . ] You can then switch to another Windows program such as Notepad, paste the text, and save it as a file. ~ If you are connected to more than one computer, be sure to specify which computer you want to use Text Chat with: Click the name of the computer on the Window menu. Then click the Open Text Chat button on the LinkBar or Open Text Chat on the Window menu. ~ Shorten connection time by preparing messages beforehand Instead of typing text while connected, you can prepare it ahead of time in Notepad or a similar Windows program and send it to a remote computer through Text Chat. Then press ENTER to send. ~ Make Text Chat available to other computers If you are denied the use of Text Chat or one of the other services while connected to another computer, check the security setup on that computer. You can gain access to services through Security (Options menu). ~ Use File Transfer for long messages ~ Save your Text Chat conversation from time to time As a Text Chat conversation grows in length, the most recent messages begin to replace the earliest. Text Chat can send as many as 2, 048 characters at once. [. . . ]