Selecting a File

In the above picture, you see that the downloads folder has been selected.  This is done by simply left-clicking the downloads folder once.  Then clicking on the Open button adds all files from the downloads folder onto the frost File Upload Preview window:

Add Files for Upload

Here is where one can select to upload one or all files in the preview frame.  Here the last file in the group of four files was selected by left-clicking on it.  Then by right-clicking in that same window another window opens with a variety of options for you to select from.  You may choose to Upload all files in the preview window, upload only the selected file, remove the selected file, remove all files among the various options.  Once you select your upload option, uploading of the file or files commences.  Once a file has finished uploading, you will once again get a confirmation in the Last upload column that the selected file has finished uploading.  This confirmation will now switch from Never as seen in the above picture to the date you last uploaded the given file.  Now anyone with the public key to myboard will be able to see which file or files you have uploaded to your board by doing a search as described earlier in this document.

Note:  When you are uploading a file, due to the use of FEC in frost/freenet, frost will show itself to be uploading approximately 1.5 times your original file size.  FEC takes a file and duplicates certain portions of that file so that it may be more easily retrieved by other users.  To learn more about the use of FEC please refer to the Freenet website.

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