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Explore View - Traditional Look, Untraditional Power and Flexibility
 Sample Explore View FileBoss has two fundamental ways of looking at your file system, Explore View and Virtual Folders. But whichever view you use to find and select files the same powerful commands and routines are available to manipulate the files and folders you select.
Explore View is outwardly similar to Windows Explorer. As you select folders in the left pane (the folder tree) the contents are displayed in the right window pane.
Easy and reliable selections
with Sticky Select and many other advanced selection tools that allow, among other things, to open or delete files while other files remain selected.
Persistency
All open Windows are reopened when FileBoss restarts (optional, of course)
Tabbed windows
for easy access
Favorites (Bookmarks)
for quick access to common locations and user-specified places
Simple to Complex file filtering
with multiple, easily configured filters
Hiding entries
by type or individually
Touchable
on one level or penetrating through subfolders
Easy Drag & Drop
with selectable default action (copy, move, or create short cuts)
Sophisticated copy engine
that not only deftly handles error conditions but also records which files have been copied and which have not
Can display folders connected to Drop Zones
that are treated like any other Explore View
Allows external tools
to be selected based on file types and name patterns
Allows Auto-Viewers
to be defined that are automatically activated when files of specific types have the focus. Auto-Viewers can be quickly turned on and off as needed.
Renaming
can be accomplished one file at a time or in groups with search and replace, sequential and common transformations (case change, space deletion and replacements, etc.)
Intrinsic file duplication
command (makes copies of files with just two clicks).
Up to 50 Explore Views
open at one time. (Configurable from 10 to 50.)
And this list doesn't even include many of the main features of FileBoss accessible via this interface such as Copying -- Moving -- Duplicating Folders -- Changing Attributes and much, much more
Virtual Folders - Selectively Manipulate Files by the Thousands
 Sample Virtual Folder Window The main advantage of Virtual Folders over Explore Views is that Virtual Folders allow manipulating (whether it be copying, renaming, duplicating, weeding out, comparing or any other vital operation to keep you computer running smoothly) thousands of files at once rather than just those in one folder.
At its simplest, creating a Virtual Folder is just a matter of specifying a folder and clicking OK. FileBoss will then collect all the files in and below the specified folder and present them in a traditional manner.
A single Virtual Folder can contain files
from one folder, several folders, whole drives and even multiple drives (or parts there of) across networks
Selected files in a Virtual Folder can be copied while retaining their original tree structure
Note this is not the same as copying all the files in all the folders below the top folder (though that is easy to do too) but rather copies only the selected files in those folders.
Files can be compared from multiple sources
Removing obsolete files and general disk cleanup
becomes much easier as all files in a Virtual Folder can be sorted together for easy evaluation
Finding duplicate files
among hundreds of thousands becomes a two-click operation
Using explicit, multiple file and folder specifications
for which files to include and which files to exclude you can tailor a Virtual Folder to fit your exact needs (more about this power in the next section)
A Virtual Folder is an ideal source of files
used in other programs. For instance one Virtual Folder could reference all the graphic files used for a specific project (no matter where they reside on your system) and they could be dragged to the your graphics program as and when needed.
More about creating and using Virtual Folders
Virtual Folderns are easily saved to disk
for later recall. A Virtual Folder can be saved as a definition so that when it is reopened it will automatically scan for files or it can be saved as a Virtual Folder where all the entries in the Virtual Folder can be quickly restored without reference to what is actually on disk.
Virtual Folders are simple to edit
entries in a Virtual Folder can be removed so that the trees can be seen instead of the forest.
Multiple Virtual Folders
can be active at the the same time - limited only by your computer's memory.
Persistency
whether explicitly saved to disk or not Virtual Folders that were open when FileBoss last closed are automatically reopened when FileBoss is next started. (Naturally this can be turned off and on at your discretion.)
Shifting back and forth between Virtual Folders and Explore Views
is simple: just right-click on a folder and select the 'Explore Folder in New Window' option. Or, after right-clicking on a folder, select 'Create Virtual Folder from Folder' to start another, more specific Virtual Folder. (Note that both of these commands are available in any FileBoss window as long as the folder belongs to the file System (not a virtual folder such as My Computer or My Network.)
Note that Virtual Folders have a different color for their left pane than Explore Views. This is just to make it easier to know which is which. The colors can, of course, be changed in the Options | Program Options... dialog.
Ref: DOC_GENERAL_TWO_VIEWS
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