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Contents of the File Transfer Window

Local and Remote Views can display their contents in four different ways, as defined in the global File Transfer page of the Settings dialog - see File Transfer. The available views are the following:

• Large Icons

  Each file and folder has a large icon associated with it, making for a clear and uncluttered display. The only information displayed about each file is the icon and the file name.

• Small Icons

  Each file and folder has a small icon associated with it. This makes it possible to display several times more items than the Large Icons view. No more information than the icon and the name of each file is displayed.

• List

  Each file and folder has a small icon associated with it, and the files and folders are displayed in one single column underneath each other. Only the icons and the file names are displayed.

• Details

  The files and folders are displayed with a small icon, their file name, file size, file type, their last modification date. The files in the Remote View have also their attributes visible. This is the default view.

  By clicking on the Name, Size, Type, Modified or Attributes sort bars located on top of the directory listing, you can sort the files and folders based on their file name, file size, file type, the time they were last modified, and file attributes. Clicking the same sort option again reverses the sorting order.

  Note: The sort function is not case sensitive - upper case text is sorted together with lower case text.

  The following information is displayed in each column:

  • Name

    The file name of each file. Note that the local and remote file systems limit what file names are acceptable on which computer. (For example, UNIX file names are case sensitive while Windows file names are not. Thus a UNIX directory may contain both File.txt and file.txt, but a Windows directory may not.)

  • Size

    The size of each file, expressed in bytes.

  • Type

    The type of each file is based on the file extension. The descpription given in the Type field is based on the file types recognized by Windows Explorer. If you have defined a new file type description for files with a certain file name extension, also the files in the remote computer are shown to be of that file type. This makes it easy to recognize particular file types also on the remote computer.

  • Modified

    The last time when each particular file has been changed.

  • Attributes

    The attributes of each file.

    On Windows systems, the file may have the following attributes:

    • R

      The file can be read.

    • W

      The file can be written to.

    • X

      The file can be executed (run).

    On UNIX systems, the attributes signify the file permissions given to each file:

    • d

      The entry is a directory.

    • r

      The file can be read.

    • w

      The file can be written to.

    • x

      The file can be executed.

    After the d attribute, the r w and x attributes may be repeated up to three times. If the file does not have a particular attribute, the attribute is replaced with a hyphen (-).

    The first three attributes specify the permissions given to the owner of the file, the second triplet specifies the permissions for the user group associated with the file, and the last triplet specifies the permissions given to all other users. For more information on file permissions, please consult the server's documentation.