If you’ve been wondering how you can store, view, and send files as email attachments from your iPhone or iPod Touch, this article will teach you how. There is an iPhone appcalled Files, and it allows you to do incredible things with…well…files. It’s available in the iTunes App Store. While the app is not free (it’ll cost you $4.99), the price is well worth the options that the app offers you.
Continue reading to learn how to use this application so you can send documents and other files as email attachments from your iPhone.
The description of Files by the developer, Olive Toast:
“Files allows you to store and view files on your iPhone or iPod touch. You can connect to Files from any Mac or PC and drag and drop files straight from the Finder or Windows Explorer, as you would with any other shared folder. In fact any client which understands the WebDAV protocol can connect to Files.”
1. Download Files (Email, Document Viewer, File Storage)
The application runs $4.99 and is available in the iTunes App Store. Get it here.
2. Connect your PC or Mac with “Files” to add files and documents
These short instruction videos created by the developer show how to connect the iPhone to the computer. It’s very simple.
For Mac:
For Windows Vista via Creating a Network Location:
3. Send the file or document as an email attachment from within the application
Just follow the instructions inside the application. It’s very simple.
Supported file types:
- Microsoft Office documents
- Image/movie/audio formats that are supported on iPhone
- Apple iWork documents
Other features:
- Secure files via password
- View all the files you load onto the application
- Image browsing, slideshow, thumbnails with zoom and pan
- Play audio files
- Jump directly to a page
- Search for files
Requirements:
- WiFi connection only to transfer files
Screenshots:
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Enjoy emailing documents and other files as attachments right from your iPhone! If you have any other questions, please ask them in the comments. We guarrantee they will be answered.
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How is Files Different From AirSharing?
one of our editors uses Files, I use Airshare.
both programs can accomplish the same function.
I need to be able to transfer MS Office files (doc and xls) to and from my laptop (Windows XP) and iphone using a wired usb connection (I have itunes on my laptop). The situation is that my laptop is often located away from internet access. Once I get the file from my laptop to the iphone, I then want to be able to use my 3G connection on my iphone to send those files as email attachments. It looks like the “Files” app will do the second part (send email with attachments from iphone)and perhaps a separate app would do the first part (transfer files via USB to and from iphone). Question – if “Files” will do what I describe what other app will do the usb transfer and will the system I describe do what I want?
Brian there is an app called “USB Drive”. Look it up. It allows you to allocate a certain amount of the Iphones memory to an “internal flash drive”. If you click on the app from the Iphones home screen, it lets you switch from “default”(Itunes when connected to a computer) or to “drive”(Iphone acts as a flash drive when it is connected to a computer). One of the best apps I have ever downloaded if you ask me. I believe your phone has to be jailbroken for you to use this app. One of the advantages of jailbreaking
my iphone does not shoot video rather than only camera for capturing pictures.Also i want to know how can i download my files from my phone to a computer.
With thanks
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there’s an app called iattachment u can transfer files as well as send attachments with no hassles, i really liked it , u can use it with ur ipod as well as ur iphone , not sure if they have an ipad version
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