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User Guide

The User Guide covers everything beyond first steps—keyboard-first navigation, advanced selection, batch tools, and working across local/remote storage.

Topics​

  • Panels & Layouts — Dual-pane basics, sidebars, tabs, status bar, and focus rules.
  • Navigation — Keyboard flow, containers & bundles, archive-as-folder, history.
  • File Operations — Select, copy/move with the queue, delete, conflicts, progress.
  • Find Files — Name (with optional regex), scope & sub-folders, text inside files.
  • Viewer & Quick Look — Built-in viewer (text/hex/media) and macOS Quick Look.
  • Archives — ZIP support, browse/extract, tips for large trees.
  • Compare & Sync — Simple, color-coded preview; one-way or two-way with recursion.
  • Bookmarks & Hotlist — Favorites, drive jumps, and fast project switching.
  • Remote Connections — Saved FTP/SFTP/SCP sessions, SMB/AFP mounts, connect/disconnect.
  • Batch Rename — Masks, counters, dates, plain-text replace, preview & apply.
  • Customize — Preferences: layout, colors, fonts, navigation, copy/delete, external apps.
  • Accessibility — Fonts, contrast, cursor/selection visibility, keyboard access.
Power users

Learn the essentials in Keyboard Shortcuts and keep one pane “destination-pinned” while you work from the other pane.