HFS: Virtual File System menu
Virtual File System Menu
- Copy URL
- Copies the URL to the clipboard.
- Get passworded URL
- Copies the URL to the clipboard. The resultant URL integrates the username and password necessary to access the file.
- Specifying the username/password through the URL is a less secure system, but it is easier to use and more secure than no password at all.
- Set URL
- Set the link.
- Browse it
- Opens your default web browser on the item's URL.
- Open it
- Opens the selected item on the server computer.
- Comment
- Specify a comment for the item. It is displayed in the client when browsing.
- Icon
- Select a different icon for the item.
- Switch to virtual-folder
- Changes a real folder int to a virtual folder.
- New folder
- Adds a virtual folder.
- New link
- Adds a "link" item. A link has a URL, so you can link to anything on the Internet.
- Rename
- Renames the item in the VFS.
- Remove
- Removes the item from the VFS.
- Edit resource
- Allows you to change the folder or file which the VFS points to.
- Paste
- If you copy a file from Explorer, you can then paste it into the VFS.
- Add files
- Opens a dialog where you can select files to be added.
- Add folder
- Opens a dialog where you can select a folder to be added.
- Files/Folders filter
- If you set a filter for files/folders, then some items are hidden. This works like the "Hide" command, so refer below for more details. The only files displayed are those that match the filter mask. For more information, check here.
- Default file mask.
- When a folder is browsed, the default file mask is used to find a file to serve in place of the folder page. If no file is found, the folder page is served.
- Don't count as download :mask...
- Files matching this filemask are not added to the global downloads counter. They also never use the tray icon.
- Set user/pass
- You can protect an item by password. This is an on-the-fly protection, if you need something more permanent, use the account system (users).
- Reset user/pass
- Removes username/password protection. This just affects the item referenced by the Set option, it does not alter the account protection.
- Restrict access
- Protects an item by restricting access to specified users. Before using this option you must configure some accounts. (Putting a tick next to a user grants them access to that item.)
- Visible only to anonymous users
- Displays an item to anonymous users, but not to users who have logged in.
- Customized realm
- Specify a realm for the item's login dialog box.
- Upload
- Allow specified users to upload to this folder.
- Let browse
- Allow or disallow browsing for the selected folder.
- Let download
- Allow or disallow users to download an item.
- Hide
- If you don't want people to know about a file that is in your VFS, you can just hide it. This does not actually prevent retrieval; in fact you can give the full URL of the file to your friends and they will stil be able to download it. It simply does not display the file when people are browsing through the VFS. This is not the most secure way to protect your files from unwanted access, although it is quite reasonable since people do not normally know the name of the file you are hiding.
- Hide tree
- Identical to the option above, but it also includes subitems.
- Auto-hide empty folders
- Prevents empty folders from being displayed.