(Loading & Saving, Drag & Drop) FOLDER PANEL OPTIONS

The folder panel is located in a few places:

The top side of the files list on the main program window

The right side of the Custom Print Layout

The right side of the Photo Quilting Window

If you were interested in the Files List Panel, then click here.

This panel contains many features to manipulate your folders.

BROWSE Button:
This allows you to browse to a specific folder to load up the photos. You can either specify the folder, or you can select from a list of most recently used folders.

NEW Button:
Click this to create a new folder in the list of folders that you see in the Folders List. These folders are sub-folders of the currently displayed folder of photos.

DELETE Button:
Click this to delete the currently displayed folder of photos.

RENAME Button:
Click this to rename the currently displayed folder.

REFRESH Button:
Click this to RELOAD all the photos from the current folder. This is useful, if you have renamed some files and want the files list sorted again. Or if you have copied or moved some new files into the current folder by SOME OTHER program and you now want to see the new files.

NOTE: You can also select to clear the thumbnail cache for the current folder. Typically you would answer NO. It's only useful if you find that the thumbnails appear wrong. This could be because of bad memory/disk when the thumbs were created. Also viruses could corrupt the thumbnail cache. So in this case you would clear the thumbnail cache to force the thumbnails to be rebuilt. For more information about thumbnail caching, click here.

OPEN CURRENT FOLDER:
This button looks like a computer icon. Click this button if you want to open Windows Explorer file manager with the current folder. Click here to learn more.

SORT FOLDER:
Click this green pyramid to change the sort order of the list of folders being shown (by date or by name).

PARENT:
Click this button to load the images from the parent folder of the current folder. For example: If your current folder is "C:\MyPhotos\Trips\Paris\2003" and then you click the Parent Folder, then the folder "C:\MyPhotos\Trips\Paris" will load and become your current folder.

BACKWARD / FORWARD:
These buttons work like your web browser buttons work. They go backwards and forwards through the most recently viewed folders. This is very handy, especially if you are bouncing around between folders and want to do it quickly.

HOME FOLDER:
This button looks like a home icon. Click this button if you want to LOAD the Home Folder into Photo Jockey. This is a quick way to get back to viewing the home folder. You can also SET the Home Folder as well.

FOLDERS TREE VIEW

In addition to the buttons that you can click on, there is a LIST OF FOLDERS that you can click on. Once clicked, that folder will be loaded into Photo Jockey. And that folder will become the current folder.

The Folders Tree has a built in folder management system. You can DRAG/DROP folders to and from this tree window. If you DRAG/DROP a folder within the tree window, you can MOVE/COPY folders without the need for a separate Windows Explorer File Manager window.

NOTE: If you drag from the Folder Tree and then drop onto the Folder Tree, then Photo Jockey knows the source and destination folder names. It will then update all the database entries and favorites list, and thumbnail cache to reflect that certain images are now in the new destination folder. That way thumbnailing the destination folder will be FAST and your database entries for the source folder won't be orphaned.
HINT: As you are dragging folders around, if you HOVER OVER A FOLDER's plus/minus icon, then that folder will expand or collapse so you can control what folders you see AS you are dragging around. ALSO, if you drag near the edge of the Tree View window, the entire window will scroll up/down or left/right depending on where your mouse is. That way you don't need to use the scroll bars to view a different section of the Tree View window.

TIP: As you drag, you can use the SHIFT or CTRL keys like you normally would do, for standard Windows programs, to control if you want to MOVE or COPY the selected folder.


FOLDER PREVIEW POP-UP

HINT: As you move the mouse over each folder in the folder tree, you will see a Folder Preview Pop-Up. This allows you to see how many images and movies are in the folder and total spaced used etc.. It also shows you thumbnails of some of the images in that particular folder. This is very handy. To learn more about the Folder Preview Pop-Up window, click here.

TIP: If you have turned off the Folder Preview Pop-Up, and want it back now, you can click here to re-activate the Folder Preview Pop-Up.

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