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<p>The Tracker is the graphical interface to all your files. It let's you create new files and folders or find, launch or rename as well as copy or delete existing ones.</p>
<p>Being an application like any other (the Desktop with its icons is really just a fullscreen window in the background), Tracker appears with its windows in the Deskbar and can be quit and restarted. The easiest way to quit and restart a crashed or frozen Tracker (or a wayward Deskbar) is to call the <a href="teammonitor.html">Team Monitor</a>.</p>
<h2><a id="mounting-volumes" name="mounting-volumes">Mounting Volumes</a></h2>
<h1><a id="mounting-volumes" name="mounting-volumes">Mounting Volumes</a></h1>
<p>In order to access a harddisk, CD, USB stick etc., you first have to mount the volume, that is, let the system know it's there. This is done with a right-click on the Desktop or an already mounted volume (like the boot disk) and choosing the volume from the <span class="menu">Mount</span> submenu.</p>
<img src="../images/tracker-images/mount-settings.png" alt="drill-down.png" width="581" height="290" />
<p>There are also <span class="menu">Mount Settings</span> so you don't have to mount everything manually after every bootup.<br />
The above settings will mount all disks on bootup that were mounted previously and will automatically mount any storage device you connect/insert.</p>
The above settings will automatically mount any storage device you connect/insert and also mount all disks on bootup that were mounted previously.</p>
<div class="box-warning">Before you disconnect e.g. a harddrive or USB stick, make sure you have successfully unmounted the volume. This guarantees that all data transfer has finished. Otherwise you may lose data or corrupt the disk!</div>
<h2><a id="navigating" name="navigating">Navigating</a></h2>
<h1><a id="navigating" name="navigating">Navigating</a></h1>
<p>Moving through your folders is one of Trackers main purposes, just like the file managers on other platforms. Haiku's Tracker has some unique features that will help you doing that efficiently.</p>
<p>Instead of double-clicking your way down folder after folder, there's a better way to drill down:</p>
<img src="../images/tracker-images/drill-down.png" alt="drill-down.png" width="603" height="303" />
<p>Right-click onto a folder, and at the top of the usual context menu you'll find a submenu of the current folder that let's you navigate down a level. Just move down the hierarchy until you find the file or folder you're looking for and click on it to open it. The above shows the contents of the folder <span class="path">/boot/beos/system/</span>.<br /><br /></p>
<p>A similar method can be used from any Tracker window:</p>
<img src="../images/tracker-images/window-drill-down.png" alt="window-drill-down.png" width="502" height="359" />
<p>Click on the area in the lower left, where the number of items are listed, and you'll get submenus for every level above you current folder. From there you can drill down through the folders as usual.</p>
<p>Click on the area in the lower left, where the number of items is listed, and you'll get submenus for every level above your current location. From there you can drill down through the folders as usual.</p>
<p>Note, that the Desktop is always the topmost level as that is where Tracker shows mounted volumes. So, if you want to go to another disk, you first have to navigate to the top (Desktop) and cross over to your other disk from there.</p><br />
<p>You'll get the same submenu-navigating when you drag a file over a folder. After a short while of hovering, a submenu pops up and you can drill down to your destination. If you initiated the drag with the right mousebutton, you can choose between copying, moving or linking the file when you release the mouse.</p><br />
<p>By default, when you double-click a folder, Tracker opens a new window while leaving the parent window open. This can quickly lead to an overcrowded desktop.<br />
You can prevent that by holding down the left <span class="key">WIN</span> key, which automatically closes the parent window.<br />
This is also true for keyboard navigation. For more on that, see topic <a href="keyboard-shortcuts">Shortcuts and key combinations</a>.</p>
<h2><a id="appearance" name="appearance">Appearance</a></h2>
<h1><a id="appearance" name="appearance">Appearance</a></h1>
<img src="../images/tracker-images/window-menu.png" alt="window-menu.png" width="382" height="259" />
<p>Tracker windows offer three different viewing modes from the <span class="menu">Window</span> menu:</p>
<ul>
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<ul>
<li><p><b>Resize Window</b> (<span class="key">ALT</span>&#160;<span class="key">Y</span>) - Resizes the window to its ideal size.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Clean Up</b> (<span class="key">ALT</span>&#160;<span class="key">K</span>) - Aligns all icons to an invisible grid. Hold down <span class="key">SHIFT</span> and the menu becomes <span class="menu">Clean Up All</span> which additionally sorts all icons alphabetically.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Select...</b> (<span class="key">SHIFT</span>&#160;<span class="key">ALT</span>&#160;<span class="key">A</span>) - Select files according to a regular expression.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Select...</b> (<span class="key">SHIFT</span>&#160;<span class="key">ALT</span>&#160;<span class="key">A</span>) - Select files according to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression" class='external free' title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular expression">regular expression</a>.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Sometimes you just want to rearrange a few icons without doing a complete <span class="menu">Clean Up</span> (<span class="key">ALT</span>&#160;<span class="key">K</span>). In that case, you select these icons and start to drag them to their new location. Before you drop them there, keep <span class="key">ALT</span> pressed until you've released the mouse button. This will align the icons to the invisible grid.</p>
<p>Sometimes you just want to rearrange a few icons without doing a complete <span class="menu">Clean Up</span> (<span class="key">ALT</span>&#160;<span class="key">K</span>). In that case, you select these icons and start to drag them to their new location. Before you drop them there, keep <span class="key">ALT</span> pressed. This will align the icons to the invisible grid.</p>
<p>The rest of the functions are pretty self-explanatory, leaving the Tracker preferences.</p>
<h3><a id="tracker-preferences" name="tracker-preferences">Tracker preferences</a></h3>
<h2><a id="tracker-preferences" name="tracker-preferences">Tracker preferences</a></h2>
<p><span class="menu">Window | Preferences...</span> opens a panel that offers a number of settings that, where not obvious, should become clear once tried out. Since all settings are applied live, you'll immediately see the changes.
<br />So, in short, the not so obvious settings:</p>
<ul>
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<p>Before you switch Tracker to Single Window Navigation mode, because that may feel more familiar to you, we recommend giving the menu based browsing a try first, as that may actually work much faster for you after getting used to. On the other hand, single window browsing offers a <i>Navigator</i> where you can enter or copy&amp;paste a path name and use back, forward and up buttons.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Date and Time</b> - Set date and time formats.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Trash</b> - Set the behaviour when deleting a file.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Volume Icons</b> - Set the colour of an optional indicator of free space that's shown besides a disk's icon.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Trash</b> - Set the behavior when deleting a file.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Volume Icons</b> - Set the color of an optional indicator of free space that's shown besides a disk's icon.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>This panel, by the way, is also available as <span class="app">Tracker</span> from Deskbar's <span class="menu">Preferences</span>.</p>
<h2><a id="working-with-files" name="working-with-files">Working with files</a></h2>
<h1><a id="working-with-files" name="working-with-files">Working with files</a></h1>
<p>When invoked on a selected file, most of the <span class="menu">File</span> menu commands are also offered in the context menu by right-clicking that file.</p>
<p>As usual the commands are pretty clear.</p>
<ul>
<li><p><b>Find...</b> - Find a file or folder. See topic <a href="Query.html">Query</a> for more info.</p></li>
<li><p><b>New...</b> - Create a new folder or any other file based on a <i>template</i>.
<li><p><b>New</b> - Create a new folder or any other file based on a <i>template</i>.
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<img src="../images/tracker-images/new-menu.png" alt="new-menu.png" width="627" height="219" />
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<p>Choosing <span class="menu">Edit Templates...</span> opens the folder <span class="path">/boot/home/config/settings/Tracker/Tracker New Templates</span>. Creating a file in that folder will offer its filetype with the file's name and other attributes as template in the <span class="menu">New...</span> menu. Here, there's a file "Text" with the filetype <tt>text/plain</tt>. See topic <a href="filetypes.html">Filetypes</a> for more info.</p></li>
<p>Choosing <span class="menu">Edit Templates...</span> opens the folder <span class="path">/boot/home/config/settings/Tracker/Tracker New Templates</span>. Creating a file in that folder will offer its filetype with the file's name and other attributes as template in the <span class="menu">New</span> menu. Here, there's a file "Text" with the filetype <tt>text/plain</tt>. See topic <a href="filetypes.html">Filetypes</a> for more info.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Open With...</b> - A submenu offers all applications that can handle this filetype.
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<img src="../images/tracker-images/open-with.png" alt="open-with.png" width="303" height="343" />
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<li><p><b>Add-Ons</b> - offers you every generic Tracker add-on and those that can handle the selected file(s). See topic <a href="tracker-add-ons.html">Tracker Add-ons</a> for more information.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2><a id="transaction-status" name="transaction-status">Transaction status</a></h2>
<h1><a id="transaction-status" name="transaction-status">Transaction status</a></h1>
<p>When you copy, move or delete files, Tracker shows its progress with a status window. If you initiate more than one transaction, each job gets its own status display.</p>
<img src="../images/tracker-images/transaction-status.png" alt="transaction-status.png" width="361" height="149" />
<p>To the right are two buttons to pause or stop a transaction entirely. Sometimes it can be useful to temporarily pause a large transaction. For example, you may need to quickly launch a large application. Copying large amounts of data chokes your harddisk's IO bandwidth and thus delays your workflow.</p>