File List
Toolbar
- Back
- Switch to the previously visited directory. This command can also be
accessed via the Backspace key and the Ctrl+Left keyboard shortcut.
- Forward
- Switch to the next visited directory. This command can also be accessed via
the Ctrl+Right keyboard shortcut.
- Up one level
- Switch to the parent directory. This command can also be accessed via the
Ctrl+Up keyboard shortcut.
- Subtract list
- Compare this list to another list, and only show the differences between
each. Useful to see new items added by an user to his file list.
- Match queue
- Search the list for items you are currently downloading; found items will be
automatically added as sources for your current downloads.
- Download full list
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Downloads a full version of the current file list (generally, file lists are
downloaded in parts to only download the directories you are interested
in). This function is also useful to refresh the file list if you suspect
the user may have modified it.
- Find
- Toggle the visibility of the search box, which allows searching within the
file list.
Search row (optional - below the toolbar)
A search row may be shown right below the toolbar to allow looking for files
in the current file list. Its visibility is controlled by the "Find" button.
- Text-box and method selection drop-down (left)
- Enter your search terms here. The most recent searches can be accessed by
unfolding the list contained within this box. Select the desired matching
method from the dropdown in the right. Available modes are: exact word
match, partial word match or match a regular expression.
- Previous
- Find items that match the search strings specified in the text-box. The
search starts from the current selection and goes backwards.
- Next
- Find items that match the search strings specified in the text-box. The
search starts from the current selection and goes forward.
Folder list (left)
Folders available in the current file list. Left-click on a folder to show
the contents of that folder in the window on the right; right-click to open
a menu that allows you to download the whole folder or access user related
menu commands.
Contents (right)
Shows the contents of the folder selected in the folder list (window on the
left). Right-click to get menu options.
Columns
- File
- The file and folder names inside the currently selected folder.
- Type
- Shows the file extensions of the files in the current folder.
- Exact size
- The size in bytes of files in the current folder.
- Size
- The size of these files in normal form.
- TTH
- The Hash of these files.
Context menu commands
- Download
- Adds the selected file(s) or director(ies) to the Download Queue. They will
be downloaded to the Default download directory.
- Download to...
- Adds the selected file(s) or director(ies) to the Download Queue. The
download target can be selected using the submenu elements : either a
predefined place from the Download Favorites or any other
folder specified using the Browse... submenu.
- Search for alternates
- Will open a new Search window to search for alternate
sources for the selected file.
- Copy magnet link to clipboard
- Will copy the file's magnet link to the clipboard.
- Open
- Opens the file with its respective external viewer software. You should have
the appropriate viewer / player software installed and correctly registered
to be able to open the file.
- Open folder
- Opens the selected folder (or the folder containing the selected file) in
Windows Explorer.
- Shell menu
- Opens the Windows shell menu as submenu items. This menu contains the same
items as in the context menu of Windows Explorer. Note that the submenu
elements will be loaded the time when it is opened. If you have large number
of context menu items registered with Windows it may take a few seconds to
show the full menu.
- View as text
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This function is useful for previewing small text based info files as they
may contain more information about other files in the same folder. Note
that only plain text files will be shown correctly. For files of other
format you must download and open them with their respective viewer
application. You can open downloaded files from the Finished
downloads window using the Open menu command.
- User >
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- Get file list
- Download the file list of the selected users.
- Browse file list
- Download only the required pieces of the file lists of the selected users in
form of a partial file list. Note that you may not able to fully exploit
certain file list functions in a partial list window until you get the whole
list using the "Download full list" button.
- Match queue
- Matches the files in your download queue to the file lists of the selected
users. 2 files are considered to be the same if their TTH is the same. If
matches are found in one user's file list, she will be added as a source for
the relevant downloads.
- Send private message
- Open Private Message windows to chat privately with the selected users.
- Grant extra slot
- In addition to your regular upload slots, an extra upload slot will be given
to the selected users until the end of the current DC++ session.
- Remove user from queue
- Remove the selected users from the source list of all queued files. Pending
file list requests will be removed as well.
- Ignore chat
- Add user matching definitions (or modify existing ones, if possible) to
ignore chat messages from the selected users.
- Un-ignore chat
- Add user matching definitions (or modify existing ones, if possible) to stop
ignoring chat messages from the selected users.
- Copy user information
- Copy a few lines containing user information to the clipboard. The data may
include: the user's nick(s), her hub address(es), her IP, country, email,
CID (not exhaustive). When multiple users are selected, each user
information blob is separated with a blank line.
- Copy
- Allows copying the content of any column to the clipboard. An "All
columns" command is available as well to gather all the columns in the
copied text (one column per copied line).
Status bar (bottom)
- Speed
- The speed the current file list was downloaded.
- Files (left)
- Total number of individual files in the whole file list.
- Size (left)
- Total amount of bytes represented by every individual files in the whole
file list.
- Files (right)
- Number of items selected; or number of items in the current directory if
there is no item selected.
- Size (right)
- Total amount of bytes represented by the currently selected items; or by all
items in the current directory if there is no item selected.