Application User Interface Overview

Main Window Overview

The main window of the mobilEcho client application consists of two panes: Home and Browse.

If your mobilEcho application is managed by a mobilEcho client management profile, this window may be missing some options that would normally be available when not managed. 

Main Window Layout and Buttons

Home navigation pane -- Contains all the file sources available in mobilEcho.

Edit button in Home menu bar – Use to edit servers you have added to mobilEcho. This option may not be visible if your mobilEcho client has a client management profile that disables the ability to add servers manually.

On this device list -- All the files and synchronized folders that are stored on your device.

• File Inbox – Contains any files you've sent to mobilEcho from other applications, using the other application's Open In command. From the other application, choose Open in mobilEcho and the file will be automatically transferred to the mobilEcho File Inbox, where it can be easily located and moved to a server location, or to My Files for local storage.
• My Files – Contains files you choose to store locally on your iPad. Any files in My Files are available at all times, even when you're not connected to a network. Copy or move files here for offline use. Sub-folders can be created to organize your files, just like on a computer.
• 1-Way Sync Folder -- This is a folder that is synced from the server to your device only. It is a read-only folder that is updated any time files change on the server. You will always be able to access these files, even when you do not have a network connection.
• 2-Way Sync Folder -- This is a folder that is initially synced from the server to your device. After the initial sync, any changes made to files on your device will be synced to the server, and any changes made to files on the server will be synced back to your device. These files are also available even when you do not have a network connection. Any changes made to these files while you are not connected will be synced to the server the next time you have a network connection.

Network folders and servers list – All servers, folders, and home directories that have been added to mobilEcho are shown in this section of the Home menu. These items are only accessible when you have a network connection.

• Network Home Directory -- This is typically the same network home directory that you have access to from your Mac or PC. You can add files to your home directory from your computer and then access them at any time from mobilEcho on your device.
• mobilEcho Server -- All servers listed give you access to any file shares on that server that you have permission to access.
• Network Folder -- These are specific folders on a mobilEcho server, giving you direct access to individual file shares or specific folders within file shares.

Add Server button – Use to add new servers to your Servers list. This option may not be visible if your mobilEcho client has a client management profile that disables the ability to add servers manually.

Settings button – Use to verify or change application settings or to access help information.

Browse pane – The right-hand side Browse pane allows you to browse files and folders and work with them.

Edit button in Browse menu bar – Use to select multiple files for copying, moving or deleting.

Search box – Use to search for files. You may see options for choosing to search the current folder or the entire shared volume, and for choosing to search by file name or file contents, depending on your server configuration.

Action Menu – Used to select the action you would like to perform with the file or folder.

Clipboard – Used in the process of moving or copying files. The clipboard shows the file transfer status during a copy or move. For further details, see the next section on this page, Clipboard Overview.

Refresh -- Pull down on the files list in the right-hand Browse pane to refresh the files list. If files are added to a folder that you are already viewing, refreshing the folder will update the folder and show the new files.

Add to Folder button – Use to create a new folder in the current folder being browsed, to copy files from your iPad photo library into the current folder, refresh this files list, or to rename the current folder being browsed.

Location Services Prompt When you first use the Copy Photos feature in the Add to Folder menu, your iPad will ask you to allow mobilEcho to know your current location. This is done because photos taken with the iPad are typically tagged with the location the picture was taken, and moving them to mobilEcho will move that embedded location data along with the photo. mobilEcho does not independently record your location in any way, nor does it access the GPS / location services on your device.

Clipboard Overview 

When you chose to copy or move files they will first appear on the clipboard. The clipboard allows you to select the item(s) you'd like to copy or move, and then navigate to the desired destination folder and paste them. The clipboard appears when you tap the Clipboard icon.

To copy a file, tap the file and select Copy with Clipboard from the file's action menu.

To move a file, tap the file and select Move with Clipboard from the file's action menu.

NOTE The mobilEcho client application clipboard works like a computer clipboard. If you copy files with the clipboard and have not get pasted them, then you select another set of files and copy them with the clipboard, the previously copied files will be cleared and replaced with the new file(s). No files are actually copied or moved unless you choose to paste them.

Clipboard Actions

Paste – use to copy or move the selected files in the current directory.

• Tap Paste All – if you would like to paste all files stored in the clipboard at once.
• You can also tap the individual files you would like to move. A checkmark will appear beside each selected file.
  • Then tap the Paste button to paste only the selected files. The non-selected files will remain in the clipboard.

Clear – use to remove files from the clipboard.

• Tap Clear All – if you would like to remove all files in the clipboard.
• You can also tap the individual files you would like to clear. A checkmark will appear beside each selected file.
  • Then tap the Clear button to clear only the selected files.

Edit – use the Edit button to select files you want to remove from the clipboard. This action does not delete the original file, it simply removes it from the clipboard, leaving it in its original location.

1. Tap the Edit button.
2. Tap the sign.
3. Tap the Clear button for the file you want to discard.