$(cpicName) Help - The Folder List

The Folder List lets you quickly move through your folders, disks and network drives. Using the Folder List you can show the contents of any folder or disk. You can also select multiple folders and view their all their contents at once. The Folder List is also a way to access special features such as Active Searches <#if !unix> and Offline Volumes. <#else> . <#endif> The folders you select here will be displayed in the File List on the right side of the screen. |

Working With the Folder List The Folder List is used to locate and open folders, disks and collections such as Active Searches and Offline Volumes.

<#if win> There are five main headings in the Folder List: , Active Searches, My Computer, Network Neighborhood and Offline Volumes. Each heading represents a different type of file collection. <#elseif mac> There are four main headings in the Folder List: , Active Searches, My Macintosh, and Offline Volumes. Each heading represents a different type of file collection. <#else> There are four main headings in the Folder List: , Active Searches, My Computer, and Offline Volumes. Each heading represents a different type of file collection. <#endif>

Expanding and Collapsing Folders

| You can expand any part of the Folder List by clicking on the plus sign next to the folder or drive, by double clicking on the folder, or by selecting the folder and choosing Expand One Level from the Folders menu.

| To collapse a folder, you can click the minus sign next to the folder, double click on the folder, or select the folder and choose Collapse Branch from the Folders menu.

Top Level Folder Divisions There are <#if win> four <#else> three <#endif> main headings in the Folder List: , Active Searches, Offline Volumes, <#if win> My Computer, and Network Neighborhood. <#elseif mac> and My Macintosh. <#else> and My Computer. <#endif> Each heading represents a different type of file collection.

| The collection represents everything that has to work with.

All other collections exist as part of . To collapse the entire Folder List (all open folders), double click on

Active Searches

| Active Searches contains search results for any searches you have performed on your collections during the current session.

If you have not performed any searches, there will be no searches listed. To view your Active Searches, double click on Active Searches, then click on the search results you would like to view.

You can delete Active Search results by selecting them and selecting Remove Folder from the File menu.

<#if !mac> My Computer
<#else> My Macintosh
<#endif>

| <#if !mac> My Computer <#else> My Macintosh <#endif> lists all the contents actually stored on your computer.

All hard drives, floppy drives, CD-ROM drives, and removable media are found here. Under each drive will be a list of folders. These folders may contain sub-folders. To look for images directly on your system, look here.

<#if win> Network Neighborhood

| Network Neighborhood allows you to access computers connected to your network.

This section of the folder list displays computers connected to your local network, whether in your office or home. Which computers are available depends on your network's configuration. You can map any available network drive by selecting Map Network Drive from the File menu, or by right clicking in the Folder List. To disconnect a mapped drive, select Disconnect Network Drive from the File menu after right clicking in the Folder List.

<#endif> Offline Volumes

| Offline Volumes are collections of images that are not actually stored on your computer.

These collections are images that you have viewed on disks and CD-ROMs. will create an entry here for each unique disk it has seen. Only thumbnails are stored here, so you'll have to look under My Computer if you want to open the files. More information about Offline Volumes can be found on the Offline Volumes page.

Folder Colors The color of the folders in the Folder List indicates whether or not there are thumbnailed files in that folder. This can be used to help you quickly determine which folders contain images and have been thumbnailed.

Note: This feature is only active if you are saving thumbnails. For more information on thumbnail saving, see the thumbnail documentation.

| When a folder contains images, and those images have been thumbnailed, the folder will be colorized. Folders will not be colorized until thumbnails have been created in that folder.
| If a folder does not contain thumbnailed images, but it's sub-folders do, the parent folder will be displayed using a unique style to let you know that it contains folders which contain images.

Disabling Folder Colorization
You can turn off the folder colorization in the Folder List preferences, or by right clicking in the Folder List.

Viewing Multiple Folders is one of the only applications available which allows you to easily view the contents of any number of folders at once. is capable of maintaining hundreds of thousands of file entries in the File List simultaneously, from any number of folders.

Selecting Multiple Folders
You can select any number of folders in the Folder List by clicking and dragging or by using the Ctrl key to select individual folders.

To select a range of folders by clicking and dragging, click a folder in the list and drag to select the other folders in a range.

To select individual folders, click the first folder you would like to select. Add or remove additional folders by holding down the CTRL key while clicking.

Note: While supports viewing enormous numbers of files in the File List, keep in mind that doing so will be demanding on your system. Most software will simply malfunction (probably crash) while viewing directories containing tens of thousands of files. has been tested with single folders containing 65,000 thumbnailed image files, and displaying hundreds of thousands of files in the File List at once.

Related Topics

- File List
- File Management
- Offline Volumes
- Searching for Files