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b. Share with friend – Set up your Contacts To share the album with your friends, select Share with friends. Sharing an album with friends
makes it available to selected contacts. If you check this box, you must add at least one friend. To add a friend, click the plus (+) sign
by the icon. This will provide the opportunity for you to add your contacts with whom you want to share your album. See “Setting up
Contacts”. The fi rst time you share an album with friends, MediaShare will prompt you for your email address. Emails sent by MediaShare
notifying your friends about shared albums will indicate they are from this email address. Each MediaShare user can set their own email
address. You can change your email address later. See “What to do when a fi le already exists”.
c. Share until – Setting an End Date When you select the Share with friend or Share with everyone option, the “Share until” option appears
so you can set an expiration date, if desired. By default, an album is shared indefi nitely. Setting an end date determines how long you
want the album to be shared.To set an end date, use the calendar to select your end date.
d. Password-protect this album – Limiting Access Email notifi cations to friends contains a link to the album. By default, anyone who clicks
the link can view the album unless you limit access by requiring a password. To limit access, select the Password-protect this album
option. If you select this option, an initial password will automatically be generated for your friends so they can access the fi le. When
a friend fi rst clicks the link in the email notifi cation, they are prompted to create a password. Next time they click the link, they are
prompted for this password.
e. Send email to invitees – Emailing your Friends When you share an album with friends, MediaShare can send them an email notifi cation
from myfriend@emailaddress.com that contains a link to the album. By default, anyone who clicks the link can view the album. The link
will take them to a Guest login page, where their email address is verifi ed before giving access to the album. To email your friends, you
must fi rst set up your contacts. See “Setting up Contacts”.
f. Share with everyone Sharing an album with everyone makes it available to the public over the web. The web site URL address will be
automatically generated and appear in the album details. If you share an album with everyone, it will automatically be shared with family
as well, including users without access to albums shared with family. Sharing an album with everyone also enables RSS. When you select
the this option, you will be able to set an end date for sharing using the “Share until” option. See step c above.
g. Share with media players Select this option if you want to share albums with media players and other social media, like RSS, Facebook
and Flicr.
h. Allow downloads for this album. This option allows anyone with access to the album to download the fi les for their own use. See
“Downloading a fi le”.
Adding Files to an Album
You can add contents from any folder to an existing album. If you add fi les from a folder to an album, fi les within subfolders are not included.
Adding a fi le to an album adds a reference to the fi le, but does not copy the fi le itself. This way you can have the same fi le in multiple albums
without taking up additional space. However, if you delete a fi le from the folder, it will no longer be available in the albums. You can add
multiple fi les at once.
1. To
add
fi les to an album, select the folder, display the menu, then select Add to Album > [Album Name].
2. Optionally, you can easily drag and drop individual fi les or entire folders into the album.
Deleting an Album
Deleting an album removes access to its fi les, but the fi les themselves remain within the folders in MyLibrary. If you shared the album on
Facebook or Flickr, the images will remain on these services. If you shared an album via RSS, the images will no longer be available to the RSS
readers.
1. To delete an album, select it, click the Delete Album icon.
2. Optionally, you can select the album, display the menu option, and then select Delete.
Disable Sharing
Disabling sharing prevents others from viewing your album.
1. To
disable sharing,
a. select the album
b. view its details using the information icon
c. Clear the Album Sharing and Social Networking Sites options
Using a File as the Album Cover
Using a fi le as the album cover causes its image to appear in the album icon on the Albums page. You can use an image, music, video or
document. A music fi le will use its album art (if available). A document will use the generic document image.