There are a few important tasks associated with your iFolder files. By right-clicking the iFolder icon that appears in the system tray of your workstation, you can do the following.
To log in, right-click the iFolder icon in your system tray and then click Login. To log out, right-click the iFolder icon and then click Logout.
The iFolder client lets you specify how often you want the changes that you've made to your personal iFolder files uploaded to the iFolder server. To set these parameters, right-click the iFolder icon in your system tray and then click Account Information > Preferences. To implement the changes, click Apply.
You can instantly synchronize your files by right-clicking the iFolder icon and then clicking Sync Now.
Double-click the iFolder icon in your system tray and then click View Activity. The View Activity screen captures all the activity occurring between your iFolder server and your iFolder client.
The Account Information screen shows information about your iFolder files, such as how much space is being used on the iFolder server and the number of files that must be uploaded to the iFolder server. To view this information, double-click the iFolder icon in the system try and then click Account Information.
The iFolder client has a feature called the Conflict Bin. The following scenario illustrates how the Conflict Bin works.
Suppose that you have the iFolder client installed on two computers: computer A and computer B. At some point in the day, you disconnect both of these computers from the network and continue to work from both computers offline. While you are working, you make a change to one of your iFolder files on computer A and then, later in the day, using computer B, you make a different change to that same file. You now decide to work online, so you reconnect computer B and then computer A to the network in order to synchronize your changes to the iFolder server.
When you reconnect computer B to the network, its change is uploaded to the iFolder server. However, when you reconnect computer A to the network, it also uploads its change to the iFolder server, overwriting the newer change that you made on computer B. To prevent data loss, iFolder saves the overwritten file to the Conflict Bin of the computer that had a local copy of the file that was overwritten. In this case, the overwritten file would be in the Conflict Bin of computer B.
You can access the Conflict Bin by right-clicking the iFolder icon located in the system tray. The Conflict Bin holds up to 25 MB of data before it begins to permanently delete documents.