Selecting files

 

To select files, simply click on them with your mouse or move to them with the cursor keys and press insert. If in the configuration dialog you chose to use the right mouse button, your left mouse button just moves the cursor. You have to use the right mouse button for selecting items. If you select a directory using the space bar, the total amount of space used by this directory is shown.

 

Select multiple consecutive files

 

Click on the first file to be selected with the correct mouse button (as selected in configuration), press and hold down the shift key and click on the last file you want to select. With the right mouse button selected, you can click and drag over the files you want to select.

 

Select / unselect files of special types

 

Press the + (or -) key of the numerical block on your keyboard or select one of the selection options (Select/Unselect group) from the menu Mark. Then type the desired file type (for example *.txt). You can also specify multiple file types, and even file types, which should not be selected! These must be separated by the pipe symbol |. This symbol is used because it isn't a valid character for file names.

Example 1:   w*.*|*.bak *.old selects all files, which start with w and do not end with .bak or .old.

Example 2:   |*.exe selects all files except for programs.

 

Alternatively, you can select a predefined filter, which can be defined in this dialog box through the 'define' button. This filter allows the same options as the search function!

 

You can now also use regular expressions. They need to be started with a "<" character, to distinguish them from normal search strings.

 

New: Use Shift+Del to remove no longer wanted entries from the list.

 

Select all / no files

 

Press CTRL and the + (or -) key on the numerical block of your keyboard or choose Select all/Unselect all from the menu Mark.

 

Invert selection

 

This option will mark all files in the source directory which were not marked and unmarks the previously marked files. This is especially useful after comparing directories. Press the * key (multiply) on the numerical block of your keyboard. You can configure whether * should invert the selection of just the files, or files+folders. Use Shift * for the other option (files+folders if * only inverts the selection of files).

 

Save selection

 

Saves the current selection internally. It can be restored with the next menu item. On every file operation, the current selection is saved automatically.

 

Restore selection

 

Restores the selection which was active before the last file operation. Press the / key (divide) on the numerical block of your keyboard.

 

Save selection to file

 

Saves the current selection to a plain text file.

 

Restore selection

 

Restores the selection from a plain text file.