FindMyFile

"Have you ever try to search a document in your computer but you forget the file name, and the only thing you remember is that’s document contain text of your ID number. The worst is that computer is thousand miles away and you need that document now. Using this app solve your problem, type your ID number, select "include file content" and press OK, later you will get list of related document, download it, and send to e-mail, view it or ask other apps to edit like pages, etc."

• Search file in Computer using your iPhone or iPad.
• Download files from your Computer to iPhone or iPad.
• No VPN required, no troublesome network settings, and cable not required. If your iPhone or iPad connected to Internet and your computer connected to Internet, you can share your files between them.
• Included file viewer for some of the common document type such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and images files such as png, jpg, etc.
• Edit or transfer the file to other app such as pages, numbers or other app that support document transfer.
• Dropbox account required. see Note below
• Required server application (free) and you can download from mac app store (search for “FindMyFile Server” in mac app store)
• OSX spotlight is used for the search engines.

Note:
Since version 2.0 of the server application, Dropbox client software is not required to be installed in your Mac, but you still need Dropbox account to use this application.

Server Installation
Download the server application from App Store (FindMyFile Server), and run the program. From the screen press "Link Dropbox" button, and from the screen log on to Dropbox, or create new account if you dont have one. Please do not forget to press "Close" button from screen to continue.

To log in to Dropbox from "FindMyFile server", do the following steps (click the image to zoom)

(1) Press "Link Dropbox" button. Please make sure to check the right client software as shown as (2) on the picture. If using "FindMyFileFree" app to connect to server,check the option or uncheck it if using standard version (FindMyFile). Fail to do so will make client not able to connect to server.
(2) Wait for a while until Dropbox Login Screen displayed as shown below, and enter your Dropbox account email address and password.
(3) On successful authentication, Dropbox will display the following screen. Please press "Close" button to continue
(4) When we back to application screen, will shown the following screen and told that the Dropbox is linked.

 

Note:
You dont have to log-on to Dropbox after reopening the program or restart the system, as authentication data is saved locally. But if you want to log on using different user, or press "Unlink Dropbox" button, you have to do log on procedure again.

Using Cient Software Cloud Spy for iPhone, iPad

(1) Download Client application from iTunes store and install. Because this is the first time using this app, we need to link to Dropbox account. Press link button and follow the instruction from Dropbox to log in to system. Make sure to use the same account on the server part. After succesfull authentication, the screen will be back to application.

(2). After log in successful, the application will be returned back to “FindMyFile” and go to Settings tab again and select "Connection Test" (this menu only appear if you already link to Dropbox). Application will automatically try to make connection with your Mac. If successful, you will get your computer name and the current user logging on to your mac. Server also send information the limit of the scope currently set on the server.

How to search
Server application using Mac Spotlight search engine, and there are 2 type of search first is search file name only and second is search keyword inside content of the file.

Some search will take long time event the search done in machine it's self. Please be careful with the search key you enter, because its will give hundreds or even thousand result which is meaning less. The keyword “*” will find all files in your server, and this is will take very long time for the result to coming and make your server very busy.

On the successfully search, the application will list all files for you to download to your iPhone or iPad. When you tap on particular item, application will display 2 options, first is download file and second is copy the file to Dropbox folder only.

If the file you want to copy from your machine quite big, the second option is better, because we can download later after the file is a available in Dropbox folder. As we know that upload big file from the server will take longer time compare with download.

After you download the file, the file will be available in locally in the device and you can preview the file, send to mail or open with other application, such as pages, numbers, evernote, etc.

Open Directory

From the search result, you can open the directory and browse for the content of the directory. This feature is usefull if you forget the name of the file inside directory you remember.

Search on Windows

As OSX, special server application on Windows has to be run in order client iPhone or iPad search the files in Windows. Instead of Spotlight, Windows Desktop search engine is used, and currently the application only support Windows 7.

Note: In order to be able to find files in Windows, iPhone or iPad “FindMyFile” app has to used version 1.1 or above. Please update your app.

As default, not all location in Windows is indexed. You have to specify the locations to be indexed. If locations are not indexed FindMyFile Server will not able to find files in there.

To find the location which is indexed and to modify locations to be indexed, do following steps.

(1) From control panel, choose indexing options, and from window displayed, press Modify button as shown below

(2) From the window, choose the directory you want include, and press OK button. Windows will start to indexing the selected directory and its will take time to finish.

Tips to search in Windows

The easiest way to search is typing the file you want. For example if you have file name “Sales Report 2010.docx” just type the name or if you not remember full name you can search “sales*.docx”. The other way to find the document is by type the unique keyword content of document, for example your ID number. Please does not using common word like “002” or “go”, because will be end up with result of thousand files.

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