2 BASIC OPERATION16 Scan to FileScan to FileThe Scan to File or USB function sends and stores scans to a shared folder in the equipment’s hard disk or a specifiednetwork folder. The equipment has a data capacity of 27 GB in the shared folder and the e-Filing boxes in total. You canscan up to 1000 pages per job.The data stored in the shared folder can be accessed directly from the computer via network. The shared folder in the equipment’s hard disk can contain a maximum of 2000 files. The network administrator has to make settings for storing the scanned data to the client computers. For details,refer to the TopAccess Guide. We recommend that you back up the data stored in the shared folder. Delete documents stored in the shared folder when they are no longer needed.Scanning to files1 Place the original(s).For help, refer to the Quick Start Guide.3 Press [FILE]. To store the scan in the equipment’s shared folder, proceed to step 4. To store the scan in a network folder, proceed to step 5.Storing data in a network folder requires the administrator to set the equipment configuration. For details, referto the TopAccess Guide.If the equipment is either the ES9460 MFP/ES9470 MFP/CX3535 MFP/CX4545 MFP, press [PREVIEW] hereand then select the scanning function in order to preview the scanned data at the end of the operation. Forinstructions on how to preview your scans, see the following section: P.50 “Previewing Scans”2 On the control panel, press the [SCAN] button toenter the SCAN menu.