File Manager

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+M (Cmd+Shift+M on macOS)

The File Manager perspective is a two-pane file manager for copying and moving files between locations. Each panel points at a VFS (Virtual File System) location — local disk, Insight file storage, S3 or any other registered VFS scheme — so you can transfer files between them without leaving Deem Integrator.

Layout

Toolbar (top) — refresh, copy and file operations that act on the two panels.
Bookmarks (left) — saved locations you can jump to.
Two file panels (centre and right) — each with its own location and file tree.
Messages (bottom) — status and copy/move results.

Panels

Each panel is an independent view of one location:

The location bar at the top holds the panel’s VFS URI, for example file:///tmp or insightfs://files. Type a location and press Enter, or use Browse… to pick one.
The filter box below it narrows the panel to entries whose name matches what you type. All the words must match, accents are ignored, and close-enough spellings still match. It hides non-matching folders too, so clear the filter when you want to navigate again.
The file tree lists the folder’s contents with Name, Modified and Size columns. Folders load lazily — expand a folder to load its children.

Double-click a folder to expand or collapse it. Double-click a file to open it in its Deem Integrator editor (the view switches to the File Explorer perspective to show the opened file). The panel you last clicked in is the active panel that folder-creation and delete act on.

Each panel remembers its last location, so the perspective reopens where you left off.

Button	Action
Refresh	Reload both panels completely (`F5`).
Copy to right panel	Copy the left panel’s selection into the right panel.
Copy to left panel	Copy the right panel’s selection into the left panel.
New folder	Create a folder in the active panel.
Delete	Delete the selected file or folder (with confirmation).
Collapse all	Collapse every folder in the active panel (`Ctrl+Shift+-`).

After a copy, move, rename, delete or new folder, only the folders that actually changed are re-read — in both panels, so a location open on both sides stays in step. Your expanded folders and scroll position are kept. Use Refresh when you want to re-read a panel from scratch, for example after something outside Deem Integrator changed the files.

Copying and moving files

There are two ways to transfer files between panels:

Select a file or folder and use the Copy to right / left toolbar buttons (or the right-click menu).
Drag and drop an item from one panel onto a folder in the other. The default is to move the item; hold Ctrl to copy instead.

Copies run with a progress dialog. If some files cannot be transferred — for example a file type that is not allowed in the target location — the copy continues with the rest and a summary lists each file that was rejected and why.

The drop target is the folder you drop onto, a file’s parent folder, or the panel’s root. You cannot drop an item onto itself, its own parent, or a subfolder of itself.

Right-clicking in a panel’s tree offers:

Open — open the selected file in its editor.
Copy to right / left panel — copy the selection to the other panel.
Rename… — rename the selected file or folder.
Delete — delete the selection.
New folder… — create a folder.
Refresh — reload the panel.

Bookmarks

The bookmarks list on the left gives quick access to locations you use often. Bookmarks are shared with the file-selection dialog used elsewhere in Deem Integrator, so a location saved in one place is available in the other.

Button	Action
User home	Open your operating-system home folder in the active panel.
Project home	Open the active project’s home folder in the active panel.
Add bookmark	Save the active panel’s current location under a name you choose.
Remove bookmark	Remove the selected bookmark.

Double-click a bookmark to open it in the active panel.