For your convenience, you can use the right mouse button while the particular disk, folder or file is selected (in any window – left or right). The menu is always context-sensitive; i.e. it may be different depending on your selection.
Disk menu:
Folder menu:
File menu:
The most frequently used menu item (available for disks, folders and files) is Properties. Using it, you can view the details of the selected object, change its name (disks only), enter some comments and assign the categories. Edit comments command works as a “subset” of Properties – it allows to view and change comments only.
Explorer menu item opens the Windows Explorer (or other shell like Windows Commander – see options) and goes to the specified folder. Open item open the selected file in Windows Explorer with the associated application. For example, if you’ve selected the Word document, the Microsoft Word will start and load this file. Of course, the appropriate disk (with the folder you want to browse or with the file you want to open) should be available in the system – if it is removable, be sure to insert it prior to this operation.
Also, there are some items specific to the disk, folder and file.
For the disk, you have Update volume, Delete volume, Change root and Scan for viruses items. Change root allows you to change the default root path for the selected disk – it is useful, for example, if you’ve added an additional device for the system and so the drive numbering was changed.
For the folder and file, there are Copy to… and Delete items. The first one allows you to copy the selected file(s) or folder from the catalogued media (say, CD-ROM) to any folder of your choice; you’ll be prompted to insert the source disk (if it is not there already) and to select the target folder. Warning: the copy operation is implemented using the Windows Explorer interface and doesn’t check the available disk space. The second one – Delete – deletes the selected folder (with all subfolders) or file from your database (not from the physical disk).
For the file (or group of files), there is the Hide command. It works a little bit similar to Delete, but the serious difference is: the information about hidden files is still stored in the database – these files are just not visible (neither in main window, nor in search, duplicates and other windows).
For the disk and folder, there is the Scan for viruses item (available only if the antivirus program is set in Options dialog), which allows you to scan the selected folder or disk with your favorite anti-virus program; and Special submenu, which contain Hide files, Unhide files and Delete files items. When you select one of these submenu items, the following dialog is displayed:
After you’ll select the mask and press OK, the program will search the selected disk or folder and hide/unhide/delete all files matching the mask. In the case of Delete, the files will be deleted from the database only (exactly as for the Delete command from the top-level menu for folders).
Please note that there is no Undo command for Delete – so, your changes will be permanent. However, if you’ll update the disk, which contains the hidden files, they will remain hidden. As for the deleted items, they’ll reappear again, so delete the files (or folders) only on the disks, which are read-only (as CD-ROMs) or don’t need to be updated.
These commands – Delete and Hide – could help you to keep the database as small as possible; the Search results will be also more convenient.
Also, if the file you’ve selected is an archive, the Archive menu item will be available in the popup menu. Use it to get the contents of the archive. See File properties for details.