As you become more familiar with File Manager, you may want to change some settings to better suit your needs or personal preferences. The Preferences dialog lets you make these changes.
You may also want to alter your File Manager views by specifying which filetypes you are not interested in seeing. You can hide certain files and directories using the Filter List.
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Choose Set Preference from the View menu.
Select the sort order you prefer from the Order box.
Alphabetically sorts all icons alphabetically by name, A-Z (ascending) or Z-A (descending). Upper-case letters are sorted first.
By File Type groups icons according to file type. Within each group of similar types, the icons are sorted alphabetically.
By Date sorts icons according to the last time the files were modified, oldest to youngest (ascending) or youngest to oldest (descending).
By Size sorts icons by file size, smallest to largest (ascending) or largest to smallest (descending).
Select the sort direction, from the Direction box: Ascending or Descending.
Choose OK.
If you have Placement set to As Placed, icons are sorted only when you choose Clean Up from the View menu or when you choose Apply in the Preferences dialog. If Placement is set to Sorted Grid, the icons are sorted each time there's a change to the directory's contents or when you choose Reread from the Directory menu.
To re-sort files and directories (clean up) |
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Choose Clean Up from the View menu.
The Clean Up command sorts the objects in the current view (according to the
settings in the Set Preferences dialog) and lines them up in a grid
pattern. The settings in other File Manager windows are not affected.
The Clean Up command is inactive if you have the Placement preference set
to Sorted Grid.
To change the style of a File Manager view (preferences) |
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Choose Set Preference from the View menu.
Select your preferences (Placement, Show, View, Order, and Direction).
Choose OK.
If you want to view the results before closing the Set Preferences dialog,
choose Apply.
To save the current preferences as your default |
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Set the preferences that you want (using Set Preferences and Modify Filter List in the View menu).
Choose Save Settings from the View menu. File Manager prompts to verify that you want the current settings saved.
Choose OK.
After saving the current preferences, all new File Manager views you open uses the new preferences and filter list.
To show hidden files and directories |
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Choose Show Hidden Files from the View menu.
The Show Hidden Files command is a toggle, so to hide the files, choose
Show Hidden Files again.
Hidden files and directories are those whose filetypes are selected in the
filter list. By default, the hidden filetypes are DOT_FILE, DOT_DIR,
and CURRENT_DIRECTORY.
To hide certain types of files and directories (filter list) |
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Choose Modify Filter List from the View menu. File Manager displays the Modify Filter List dialog
In the horizontal list of icons, select the icons for the filetypes you want to be hidden.
Optional: Enter a name pattern into the Filter String field specifying additional file and directory names to be hidden.
Choose OK.
If you want to view the results before closing the dialog, choose Apply.
To reset to the default filter list, choose Reset. This resets the default
values but does not apply them until you choose Apply or OK.
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 | NOTE: The filter list specifies which files are not to be displayed. If you select all filetypes or enter * into the Filter String field, no files are displayed. |
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Advanced users: The Filter String may be any regular expression. Refer to the regexp man page (section 5) for more information.
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