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Controlling Which Files & Folders are Displayed
Available in Explore Views 
Filtering and limiting the files and folders displayed in the contents window can save an immense amount of time when you are only interested in a specific group of files out of many.
There are several ways you can limit what files are listed in folders.
There are four ways to control which files and folders appear in the contents window (the right hand pane) of Explore Views.
Showing folders at the top, at the bottom or not at all
This is a simple what to configure your Contents window. Using the Explore | Display Folders at > main menu command you can specify that all folders will appear at the top of the list, at the bottom or not at all.
This setting is global (pertains to all Explore Views) and persistent (will be remembered by FileBoss between sessions.
You can also set where Explore folders are displayed using the command buttons on the Explore toolbar,    . Either click the down arrow to make a selection or just click the button to cycle through the settings.
Filtering by Extensions and Filename Patterns
The name filters (Explore | Edit Filename Filters... and Explore | Filename Filters On or the command button  ) will tell which files to show and/or which files to not show. A filter can be as simple as *.doc or more complex like:
*.jpeg | *.jpg | *.gif | *.bmp | *.png | -~*
which tells FileBoss to show files with the extension jpeg, jpg, gif, bmp and png unless the name begins with the tilde (~) character.
FileBoss will remember recent filters you have used for easy recall.
The most recent filter can be turned on and off simply by clicking the icon or using the main menu command.
Note that file filters are automatically turned off each time FileBoss first starts. To enable the last file filter again simply click its icon .
Advanced File Attribute Filters
The Advanced file filter is much like the filename filter except it gives much greater control over what is displayed. Filtering can be based on names, file times, attributes, filename lengths and even whether or not files contain specific text.
Like filename filters the Advanced filter is automatically turned off each time FileBoss first starts. To enable the Advanced file filter use the command from the main menu.
To turn the Advanced filter on us Explore | Advanced Filter On and to edit the filter use Explore | Edit Advanced Filter...
Hiding Folders (and even Files)
You can also tell FileBoss to simply hide all folders ( ), or even all files as you view folders. (You can even hide specific files you have selected but, of course, once you change to a different folder all files will be displayed again.
The Hide command are on the View | Hide/Unhide > menu. And from that same menu you can show the Hide toolbar (it is off by default) for quick access to these commands.
The Hide Toolbar:
Ref: HTDE_USING_FILENAME_FILTERS
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