Auto-Detect Tab (Transfer Settings Dialog Box)
Getting there
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Open the Transfer Settings dialog box.
The steps depend on your user interface mode.
User Interface Mode
Steps
Ribbon
On the ribbon, from the group, click the launcher:
Classic or Classic MDI
On the Tools menu, choose File. Then, in the Transfer dialog box, click the button.
Reflection Browser
On the Reflection menu, choose and then . In the Transfer dialog box, click the button.
Use the tab to associate a filename extension (five characters or less) with a transfer type. When you send a file, it is transferred using the transfer type you specify.
Reflection comes with default extension associations. For example, the extension .txt is associated with the ASCII file type — when a .txt file is transferred, it is transferred as an ASCII file.
You can associate additional filename extensions with a file transfer type by clicking .
- Auto-detect options
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Click to show the dialog box, from which you can add filename extensions to a selected transfer type.
Click to remove the selected extension.
To associate all files to this transfer method by default, select , , , or . Only those files that are already associated with a file transfer type are exempted.
If you are unsure about which transfer method to associate to the files you transfer, you have two choices:
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Select to have Reflection determine the file transfer type without your input.
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Select , and then from the dialog box, select the transfer method you want.
NOTE:If you are transferring a file that contains double-byte characters, select or , not .
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