EyeFiles
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eyeFiles is the eyeOS file manager. From eyeFiles you can upload your files and documents from your hard drive to eyeOS, move and manage them between different instances of the application, and launch a wide variety of files to be reproduced/shown with each specific application.
To launch eyeFiles, just click on the Home icon on your Desktop or open File Manager in the Office menu at eyeDock.
Once you are on the application, you will see three zones:
- The left bar with the common Actions and Places.
- A top bar with the current path. You can use it to navigate by text trough your Home space. Note that if you are root you will be able to navigate trough the whole eyeOS virtual file system.
- The files space, where you will see all the files and folders inside your current directory (by default, your Home directory).
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Common Actions
The eyeFiles actions can be launched by clicking on it's icon on the left bar. Note that you must click first the Action and finally the file or folder where it will be applied.
Example on using an action
To show how to use actions in eyeFiles, we will copy and paste a file:
- Click on the “Copy” action (Note that the action's background turns blue).
- Click on the file you want to copy.
- Go to the folder where you want to paste the file.
- Click on the “Paste” action.
This process applies also to Download, Download as zip, Delete, Rename and Properties.
Uploading files
If you want to upload a file to your eyeOS, just navigate to the folder you want to upload it, and click on the “Upload” action.
The Upload dialog will pop up and you will be able to select one or more files you want to upload (see Illustration 11). Note that the system administrator may have limited in the web server's configuration an amount of MegaBytes per file to upload (usually 2MB).
Illustration 11: Uploading some files to the Home folder
Once the upload has finished, a message will appear with the confirmation of the upload. When you close the upload window, you will see the new files just uploaded in your folder.
Note that if the server allows it, you will see thumbnails of the images instead of the image icon. If you see the image icon and would like to see automatic thumbnails, please ask your system administrator to install the GD library and its module for your PHP installation.
Opening files
If a file is recognized by eyeOS and is associated to an installed application, you can just click on the file without any action selected Action, and the appropiate application will be launched opening the file.
Some file types that will be recognized by eyeOS by default are:
- Images (.bmp, .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .tiff) will be opened with the eyeOSImage Viewer.
- MP3 Music files (.mp3) will be opened with the eyeOS Music Player.
- Videos and movies (.flv, .avi, .divx...) will be opened with eyeVideo oreyeMovies, depending if the DivX plugin is needed or not.
- Microsoft Word Documents (.doc) and eyeOS Documents (.eyedoc) will be opened with eyeDocs, the eyeOS Word Processor.
- Compressed files (.zip, .tar, .tbz, .tbz2, .tgz, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2) will be opened with eyeArchive, the eyeOS compressing and uncompressing tool.
- Text files (.eyecode, .txt, .py, .pl, .c, .cc) will be opened with eyeNotes.
- eyePackages, the eyeOS installable packages (.eyepackage) will be opened with eyeInstaller, but only if you are logged in as root.
