File Manager

The file manager provides an integrated access point to your files, applications, FTP sites, and URIs. To open a file manager window, double-click on the Documents object.

The file manager enables you to do the following:

• Browse your files and folders

  You can also use file browser windows to browse your files and folders. When you open a file or folder in a file browser window, the file or folder opens in the window.

  File browser windows can contain the following panes:

  Side pane

  Enables you to navigate through your files. This pane also displays information about the current file or folder. The side pane is on the left side of the file browser window.

  View pane

  Displays the contents of files and folders. The view pane is on the right side of the file manager window.

• View files and folders

  You can view your files and folders as icons or as a list. You can view the contents of some types of file within a file manager window.

• Manage your files and folders

  You can use the file manager to create, move, copy, rename, and remove files and folders.

• Customize your files and folders

  You can add emblems to your files and folders to indicate particular states. For example, you can add an Important emblem to a file to indicate that the file is important. You can also customize folders in the following ways:

  • Add a note to a folder.

  • Specify a custom background or pattern for a folder.

  • Specify a zoom setting for a folder.

• Open special Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)

  The Java Desktop System contains special URIs that enable you to access particular functions from the file manager. For example, to access the preference tools, you can access the preferences:/// URI in the file manager.

• Write CDs

  The file manager provides a special location where you can copy files and folders that you want to write to a CD. You can write the contents of the location to a CD easily.

The file manager also creates the desktop background.

To Move Files Between Folders

You can move files between folders by opening two or more file manager windows. Open a different folder in each window, then drag the files from one window to the other.