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Preview and open files

What a click and a double-click do, the built-in viewers for PDF, photos, video and audio, the preview with its information panel, and Open with.

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Filarr can show most of your files without sending them to another program: PDFs, photos, videos, music, emails, archives and more. What opens, and where, depends on the kind of file.

One click, two clicks

  • A click on a file shows it in the inspector on the right: its preview (the photo, the first page of a PDF), Open, Download, and the Info, Versions and Access tabs.
  • A double-click opens the file. Reaching it with the arrow keys and pressing Enter does the same.

To open files with a single click instead, go to Settings → Appearance and turn off File click behavior.

What a double-click opens

Kind of fileWhere it opens
Text and code (.txt, .md, .css, .py…), calendars (.ics), Filarr documents (.fdoc)A built-in editor, see Edit files inside Filarr. The editor takes a few seconds to appear the first time.
ImagesThe gallery
PDF, video, audio, e-books (EPUB)Filarr's viewer
Other files (Word, Excel, emails, web pages, ZIP archives…)The matching application of your computer

The viewers

PDF

The PDF viewer shows the pages with their number, zoom buttons, a button to fit the page, and page thumbnails. If it shows Unable to load the PDF, close it and open the file again with a double-click.

At the top, the name of the file and its place among the files of the folder ("3 of 6"); the arrows on the sides of the preview, or Left and Right, go to the previous or next file. The buttons at the top right are the same in every viewer:

  • Share… (synced profile);
  • Information (I): a panel on the right with the type, size, folder, dates and versions. It folds and unfolds with the I key, and Filarr remembers your choice;
  • Open with the default app, to hand the file to another program (desktop app);
  • Download;
  • More actions (⋯): the item menu, the same as the right-click;
  • full screen;
  • Close (Esc).

Photos

A double-click on an image opens the gallery, with all the images of the folder in a strip at the bottom. When a folder holds images, the Gallery button next to the grid/list toggle opens it too.

At the top right, next to the zoom and the slideshow, the gallery has the same buttons as the other viewers: Share… (synced profile), Information, Download and More actions (⋯), the item's menu. The information panel shows the type, the size, the folder, the image's dimensions, its dates and its versions.

In the gallery:

  • ← and → go to the previous or next image;
  • + and - zoom, 0 goes back to normal size;
  • Space starts or stops the slideshow;
  • I collapses or expands the information panel, and Filarr remembers your choice;
  • Esc closes.

Video and audio

The video player has play, skip back and forward, volume, speed, and full screen buttons.

The audio player shows the sound wave, play, skip, repeat and volume.

Preview without leaving Filarr

Word documents, emails, archives and other files open in another application when you double-click them. To look at them without leaving Filarr, right-click the file, then Preview. Esc (or Space) closes the preview.

In a folder, the Space key checks or unchecks the current item: the preview goes through the menu.

The preview shows, among others:

  • emails (.eml), with sender, recipients, subject, date and attachments;
  • Word documents (.docx), converted for display;
  • archives (.zip, .7z, .rar, .tar…), as a list of their content, see ZIP files and other archives;
  • fonts, with sample text you can edit;
  • calendars (.ics), as a list of events.

Spreadsheets (.xlsx) and web pages (.html) do not display correctly in the preview for now: open them in an application of your computer instead.

Programs (.exe, .msi and the like) appear as an information card. Filarr never runs them.

A password-protected file shows Protected file and an Unlock button, see Password-protect a file or folder.

Open with

Right-click a file, then Open with…, right under Open and Preview, at the top of the menu.

The window lists the ways this file can open:

  • System application (desktop app): a decrypted copy opens in the program of your computer. What you save there comes back into Filarr while the file stays open.
  • The built-in editors that can handle the file. For a Word document, Edit document creates a new Filarr document from its text; the original file stays untouched. See Edit files inside Filarr.
  • Preview opens the Filarr viewer, without writing anything to disk.

Tick Always open .zip files this way (the extension changes with the file) to make your choice the default for every double-click on that kind of file. Then click Open.

To look at a file without leaving Filarr, use the preview described above.