iVisit Asynchronous file transfer

As well as Sharing files, folders, Desktop, and URLs during a live connection, you can transfer files and folders in the background, while you are online but not connected. The person's Username.#### (i.e. Alicia.1234) must be in your Address Book to use this feature. Click here for the benefits

To send:
Click the persons name in your Address Book to open their AV window then;
- drag & drop a file or folder onto their AV window picture or,
- click [Message] then drag & drop a file or folder into the Chat Message panel or,
- on their AV window top right > menu choose 'Send file' and select the item.

Transfer progress:
In the Chat Message window you will see a line like:
09:06 AM yourname: Sending file: DSC00308.jpg (2285 KB) Options
and the receiving party will see a message line like:
09:06 AM yourname: Get file: DSC00308.jpg (2285 KB) Options
moving their mouse over the filename turns the pointer into a hand, a click will change to:
09:07 AM yourname: Requesting file: DSC00308.jpg (2285 KB) Options

If the user is online* the status bar of the Chat window will show transfer progress
Receiving from yourname: DSC00308.jpg (2285 10% complete) 20.5 KB/sec

When complete the receiving party will see a message line like:
09:09 AM yourname: Open file: DSC00308.jpg (2285 KB) Options
Click file name to open in the default application, folders open in file browser display.
The sender's AV window top right > menu 'Received files' option displays your local hard drive folder.
When complete the sender will see a message line like:
09:09 AM yourname: Sent file: DSC00308.jpg (2285 KB) Options

*If you send a file to a person who's offline they will receive a message at next logon, if you request a file from a person who's offline it will be queued until they next logon. If either party logs off during a file transfer it will resume automatically next time both come online.

Send & Receive Options:
Send, pause or cancel the file or folder transfer. Receive, refuse or delete the item.
Receive - by clicking links, automatically from this person, never from this person

To stop an asynchronous file transfer go to the chat channel of the person you're sending the file to or receiving the file from.
Click on the Options link 09:06 AM yourname: Sending file: DSC00308.jpg (2285 KB) Options
Once you do that a pop-up window will show giving you the options to:

When Sending a file:

• Send "filename"
• Pause sending "filename"
• Cancel sending "filename"

When Receiving a file:

• Receive "filename"
• Do not receive "filename"
• Delete "filename"

Click on the checkbox by the option you want and then click the Okay button.

However if, since the transfer started, a lot of chat has filled up the chat channel and you restarted or disconnected once or a few times during the transfer, you will no longer be able to see the Transfer link. To get to the options in this situation do this:

1. Go to the Messages tab in the Address Book window
2. Click on the time/date next to the person's name you are receiving a file from
   • The messages archive will show
   • The file transfer will show there like this:
   • Wed (14) File: "filename" (50 KB)
     • (The folder icon has a blue outline, folders containing both chat and transfers will show this icon.)
   • Wed, being the day of the week the file transfer started on.
   • (14), being the amount of messages archived that day.
   • File: "filename", being the file that is being transferred.
   • (50 KB), being the size of the file.
   • message archive containing both chat and file transfers.
   • message archive containing only chat. (brown)
3. Click on the folder inside the Messages window that shows to contain the file, then locate the message containing the file.You might have to scroll down to find it.
• It will show as a Blue arrow
• all regular text messages will show with green arrows .
4. Once you located and click on the file the Options will show up in the chat channel again of the person you are transferring a file with.