TIXstream FX Help

Accelerated File Exchange

Overview | My Jobs | Job View | File Transfer | File Names

Overview

TIXstream FX provides web-based file exchange and can be used with any up-to-date web browser. After logging in with username and password you may upload and download files as well as create new transfer jobs.

My Jobs Takes you to your transfer jobs.
Refresh Reloads the current view from the server.
Wizard With turned on wizard mode you will be guided through the entire upload and download process. You can switch between regular and wizard mode at any time.
Your e-mail-address This menu allows you to access help pages, change password and log off.

My Jobs

Job List

After logging in you get a list of your current transfer jobs ("My Jobs"). Selecting a job in this list takes you to a detailed view and further functionality. Moving the mouse over a transfer job displays a trash can icon allowing you to delete a transfer.

Create Job

+ creates a new transfer job for uploading files by yourself or other users.

For details see create jobs.

Job View

Selecting a transfer job takes you to a detailed "job view":

The left pane contains a short overview of your transfer jobs allowing you to easily switch between jobs. Further you can delete jobs by clicking the trash icon.
In the middle the file list of the selected job is displayed.
On the right side you see job details, meta data and shares (depending on actual configuration).

Functions

Following functionality can be accessed with the buttons shown at the top.

Lock is used to signal that you are done with this job, i. e. that you do not want to modify any data anymore so that the job can be used for further processing steps.
Express Mode activates accelerated transfers with the TXE client rather than web browser uploads and downloads.
Upload/Download of files.

Note: Express Mode is not available on mobile platforms yet.

File Transfer

To access files with your iPhone/iPad in Safari, please enter iOS Settings, go to Safari, General and deactivate Block Pop-ups.

During upload, do not leave mobile Safari, i.e. do not change the application.

Please note that longer running uploads of larger files can lead to unrecoverable interrupts since the mobile operating system may suspend execution of the browser process. If possible, please use your laptop for uploading for such files.

You can transfer files either with the web browser or accelerated with the free TIXstream Express client (TXE Client) for MS Windows and macOS.

Especially for large files using TXE Client is strongly recommended. Besides higher transfer rates this also allows to recover interrupted transfers.

Express Transfer

For using the TXE client select Express Mode and use the Upload and Download buttons for the entire set of files.

Web Browser

Deactivate Express Mode.

For web browser uploads use the Upload button and select a file to be transferred to the server. To download a file with the web browser, click on the file's download icon ↓ in the file list.

Current and popular browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge are suitable. For uploads and downloads that are larger than 1 GByte, use of legacy (non-Chromium-based) Edge is not recommended, as it can lead to errors or interrupted transfers.

Critical File Name Characters

Using certain characters for file names may cause issues when exchanging files between Windows, macOS and Linux. Even if many symbols are supported by TIXstream FX they can lead to failures in further third party processing.

Please avoid using special characters in file names. Especially the following characters should not be used.

\ / : * ? " < > |
# % ; , = &
. at the end of a file name
spaces, especially at the beginning and at the end of a file name
3- and 4-byte characters like emoticons
Diacritical symbols, e.g. umlaut, especially since these are encoded differently in macOS (NFD/NFC)