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The General preferences page is accessed by selecting Options, followed by Preferences and finally Folder Windows from the main menu bar.

Drag and drop unto folders

With Spring loaded folders enabled you don't need to open the destination folder or tree view branch before you start dragging files. Just drag the files you wish to copy or move over the folder containing the folder you wish to drop into and hold the cursor still for a short moment. The folder will then automatically open (if in the details view) or expand. Once you have located the destination simply drop the files as you would normally.

Folder window file sizes

You can configure the way Magellan Explorer displays file sizes in the folder windows.

·	Show size in bytes - The exact size of each file is displayed in bytes with space separating every thousand.

·	Show size in kilo bytes - The size is shown in kilo bytes (kB) rounded down. Files less than 1 kB is shown as 1 and not 0. Every thousand is separated by a space.

·	Automatically format sizes - Format sizes automatically. Depending on the size it may be shown as bytes, kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes. This choice implicitly enables the denomination check box as this becomes necessary to tell the size.

When showing file sizes in bytes or kilo bytes you may also opt to have the denominator (B or kB) appended to the display. This is always enabled if auto format is selected.

General options

Show parent entry first in every folder

If you use the Parent function to move up in the folder tree you may wish to remove the ".." entry automatically displayed at the top of every folder. The sole purpose of this entry is to enable double clicking it to go to the parent directory, nothing else.

Enable Quick Click Parent and Root

If you check this option Magellan Explorer will display a parent arrow to the right of the cursor when you move it to the left of the file names. A click with the left mouse button in this state will navigate the folder window one level up (parent).

Tip: To make this feature work you have to hit a very narrow area with the mouse for the cursor to change. It is most easily used if you have Magellan Explorer maximized.

Enable Quick Rename

If you click once on a file after selecting it you can rename the file within the folder window. This feature is found both in Windows Explorer and in Windows in general.