TheFileFinder

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The File Finder helps you find files of any type of [FilesScidCanRead].

The Finder shows useful information about each file, such as its size (see below) and date of last modification. You can open any displayed file by selecting it with a single left mouse button click.

Looking in subdirectories

When you want to find all files in all subdirectories of the current directory, turn on the Look in subdirectories checkbox. This will make Scid recursively examine every subdirectory for files that can be opened in Scid. This can take a long time if there are many subdirectories, so you may not want to do it for a directory near the root of the file system. You can interrupt the file search by pressing the Stop button.

File sizes

The meaning of a file size displayed by the Finder depends on the file type. For Scid databases and PGN files, it is the number of games. For EPD files, it is the number of positions. For repertoire files, it is the number of (include or exclude) lines.

For all file types except Scid databases, the file size is an estimate taken by examining only the first 64 kilobytes of the file, so the size may not be correct for files larger than 64 kb. Estimate sizes are shown with a tilde (~) to show they are not exact.

For easy manipulation of Scid databases, the Finder offers a context menu. From this menu, accessible by a right mouse click as usual, the following functions can be performed

Open will open the file in question, this is the same as just clicking on the file with the left mouse button.

Backup copies the file to its original name appended by the current date and time.

Copy copies the selected database to a new location.

Move moves the selected database to a new location.

Delete deletes the selected database.

These functions are especially helpful for Scid databases as these consist of several files.