FileApp FAQ
What more can I do with FileApp Pro that FileApp does not already does?
- Most importantly, get organized. All the folders, files and documents that are copied on the device can now be moved, copied, renamed, and transferred with ease, on the go. But there is a wealth of other features, like the ability to create text files or ZIP folders!
Can I create or edit Office files with FileApp Pro?
- Yes, as long as they are in ‘TEXT’ format. Microsoft Word, as any other word processing software offer saving or exporting documents under ‘TEXT’ format (.txt). This format does not include much formatting, but the barest essential: capital letters, punctuation, tabs, and so on.
FileApp says it’s running out of memory, what gives?
- FileApp and all iPhone Apps only have a couple of MBs to run. It’s a problem for all developers. In fact, the iPhone chip (CPU) is excellent, the iPhone graphics chip is excellent, but the volatile memory on the iPhone V1 and 3G (128 MB of RAM) is poor to say the least. Bear in mind that the RAM is NOT the storage memory (8/16 GB), it’s completely different. The volatile memory on the iPhone 3GS is larger (256 MB) so you will be able to read larger documents.
- In FileApp Version 1.3 and older preferences you now have the ability to choose how FileApp will treat what are called “Memory Warnings”. When FileApp does something which takes what the system things is too much memory, it receives a warning.
- If you choose to have the memory management ON in FileApp’s preferences (under Advanced -> Memory Management), FileApp will quit what it’s doing, eventually abort the loading of a file when it receives a warning.
- If you choose to have the memory management OFF FileApp will ignore these warning and eventually load the file, but also eventually crash, and possibly the device with it.
- We have debated hard internally because some users were saying “This other app can display this file but not FileApp”. Those other App have chosen to ignore the warnings, but we thought it wasn’t up to us to choose. So we’ve let it up to you to select how FileApp manages low memory situations.
- There are other ways to go about shortages of memory. For PowerPoint, Excel and Word files just split them in 2 or 3 files depending on the files size.
- If they are PDFs you can use the following free software to split your PDFs :
Can I share files with my device via USB ?
- The ability offered by the combination of both products DiskAid and FileApp, allowing the fast USB transfer files to devices and the possibility to browse those files using FileApp on the device is only possible for new users having a jailbroken device. All FileAid former users having upgraded to FileApp and having the USB transfer feature disabled should contact support.
Can I share files with my device over the Cell Network ?
Can I zoom in my Documents?
- You can zoom in every documents like with safari. To zoom in, place two fingers together on the screen and move them apart. To zoom out, place two fingers apart and bring them together.
I can’t read iWork 09 files, what can I do?
- When you save your iWork 09 document, you have to save it with the option “Include preview in document”.
What files’ extensions are exactly supported?
- Images (.jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .png, .ico, .tiff, .tif, .bmp, .bmpf, .cur, .xbm)
- PDF (.pdf)
- Office (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .pps)
- iWork (.pages, .numbers, .key)
- OpenDocument (.odt, .odf, .odp)
- Plain Text and RTF (.txt, .rtf, .log, .text, .m, .c, .cpp, .mm, .h)
- Audio (.mp3, .aac, .m4a, .aif, .aiff, .wav)
- Video (.mov, .mpeg, .m4v, .mp4)
- Web Archives (.webarchive)
- HTML (.html, .htm)
- ZIP Archives (.zip)
- Comic Book Archive files (.cbz)
What’s the maximum file size that FileApp can read?
- Images : Very large images are accepted. (> 20MB)
- Videos and Audios files : no limit.
- PDF, Office, iWork, WebArchive and others : completely dependent of your current iphone’s free memory.
