On the navigation bar's left is the Up button
with the up icon 
if it is possible in the current view to navigate up one level
in the file list hierarchy. An example of such a scenario
is if you are viewing a list of files in a subfolder.
The Up button will be available on the navigation bar for you
to move up to see the list of files in the subfolder's parent folder.
If it is not possible to navigate any further up the list
hierarchy, then the Up button will be hidden.
On the navigation bar's right is the More button
with the more icon 
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Tap the More button to access the menus
for additional commands.
Each item on the list has the four areas of information described here:
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You can optionally hide the date and/or size columns through the Document List Options dialog to increase the number of names displayable simultaneously on the screen.
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. For more about the context menu, see file operations and folder operations.
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CategorizedIn addition to being able to select a specific category, 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.
Favorites/iSilo folder,
intended to be the location where the manual and other supporting
documents of the application go.
/Downloads
folder, intended to be the default location
for downloading files.
/Public folder,
the name of the folder to which you can restrict access to for the
file server.
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.
DeviceTo 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, tap the file's icon. The context menu provides the following operations for files:
Tap Back to accept changes you have made to the categorization of the file and 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 text field the name of the new category, switch Sub-Category ON, then tap Save.
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 text field the name of the new category, switch Sub-Category OFF, then tap Save.
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, switch Copy Settings ON to also copy the document settings and categorizations. Switch Delete Original ON if you want to perform the equivalent of moving the file to the new location.
To enter a folder, tap the folder's name.
For the Favorites view and the Device view, you can get a context menu by tapping the folder's icon. 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 Favorites view, the alias appears as one of the top-level folders in the list.
. Tap the button to access
a menu of additional commands divided into the following sections:
In the Save Target To dialog, the possible choices for where to save the downloaded file are the following:
The following describes the basics of the options and available settings:
To rename a favorite folder alias, select the alias to get the Favorite Folder 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 Back to rename the alias.
To delete a favorite folder alias, select the alias in the list
to get the Favorite Folder dialog, then tap Delete.
Note that iSilo™ deletes the alias immediately without
asking for confirmation.
You can also select the mini-icons you want the document list
to show. The following list describes the mini-icons:
Options
Use Options in the Edit section to activate the Options dialog
to set options for the following:
List
Select List in the Options dialog to specify settings
that affect the document list view display. Here, you can
set the following options:
Icons
Select Icons in the Options dialog to set options for the icon
that appears to the left of entries.
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Settings
Select Settings in the Options dialog to specify settings
that affect the saving of a document's local settings
and the Recent view.
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 1,000 KB should allow for at least the saving of the local settings for the last 1,000 documents you have viewed.
For the Recent File List field, specify how many files
you want the Recent view
to show.
The Sort By menu command is disabled for the
Recently Opened view.
Regardless of whether the sort order is ascending or descending,
folders in the list always appear before files.
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.
In addition to direct support for the standard document types
and text files just described, iSilo™ also provides
the ability to view many additional file types supported directly by
the iPhone OS's built-in capabilities. To find out more about these
additional file viewing capabilities, please see
additional file type support.
Restrictions
Select Restrictions in the Options dialog
to disable selected features of the application. If you set the
Enable option to ON, then you will need to set a four
digit passcode to allow future changes to the settings
for restrictions. Make sure that you commit the passcode
to memory or write it down in a safe location because if you
enable restrictions and forget the passcode, you will not be able
to edit the restriction settings.
Delete All
Use Delete All in the Edit section to delete all files
listed in the current folder of the current view. The
deletion does not enter subfolders.
Delete Special
Use Delete Special in the Edit section to access the following
commands:
List
Sort By
Select Sort By in the List section to sort the current list
by any of name, date, or size in either ascending or descending
order. The initial sort order is by name in ascending order.
Select one of Name, Date, or Size in the list to change the sort
order to the corresponding selection. To reverse the sort order
from ascending to descending or from descending to ascending,
select the same sort option again.
Show
Select Show in the List section to filter the list based
on the extension of the file names:
Refresh
Select Refresh in the List section to force the document list
to rescan for files and update the document list. By default,
the document list automatically updates itself when it detects
new or deleted files and folders. However, there are situations
where this may not happen.
Tools
System Information
Use System Information in the Tools section
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.
About iSilo
Use About iSilo in the Tools section
to see the iSilo™ About dialog.
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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