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| The File Manager - Overview

The File Manager is the foundation of iFuntastic.
It acts like the Finder on your computer (although it is not nearly as sophisticated.) It has various limitations partly due to the time it takes to get information off the iPhone and the constraints that the low level tools impose.
You can search files and folders by name by typing search or rather filter strings into the search field above the file listing. Hit enter to start the search. Some common filter strings can be selected from the Search & Filter menu to the left of the search field. This icon also lets you toggle between filtered and unfiltered listings.
Searches are case insensitive.
A colon in front of a search string indicates that you want to perform a deep or full text search: iFuntastic will search the text index for the strings and display the files that contain matches along with some context.
With Graphinder you can even 'search' for images. Activate the 'iFuntastic-Graphinder' WinterBoard theme, take a screenshot, import it, mouse over the image and iFuntastic will tell you the image you are pointing to - along with its location on the phone. Please refer to the Screenshots documentation for more information.
File Formats
Files on the phone are kept in strange and wonderful formats (probably to save space) that are not directly viewable or editable. iFuntastic automatically converts the files when it transfers them to disk (this can be switched off in the Options menu.)

- Most graphics are stored in a strange variant of the PNG format (.png)
- Property lists (.plist, .strings) are stored in binary format
- Voicemail files are stored in .amr format
- Many sounds are stored in .caf format

Luckily, the phone itself is flexible in that it accepts files in various formats. Generally file types are determined by the file extension, but many files contain so called 'magic numbers' that identify the format. In addition, file readers can often interpret files of various formats within a category. For example, the official wallpaper file is a JPEG file, but it can also be a PNG file (although the extension must remain .jpg.) Similarly, system sounds are in CAF format, but you can substitute AIF files (again, while keeping the extension as .caf.) So that's cool, and makes our lives a lot easier.
Image Dimensions
Many graphics on the phone can be larger or smaller than the existing images on the phone. It can be great fun to experiment and find places where that applies. For example, the page indicators just above the dock have dimension 6 x 6 - make them taller and you can pretty much move them all the way up to underneath the status bar - make them wider and you can spread them across the whole screen.
Another observation: in various places the phone uses a one pixel wide image that gets stretched across the screen - for example, the LCD in the calculator. Replace it with a 320 pixel wide image, and all of a sudden you have a picture as LCD background instead of a uniform area. Cool, eh?
And the best part? With iFuntastic you have a very powerful tool that makes it easy to explore your phone and experiment!