Magellan Explorer offers browser like navigation functionality with back and forward buttons as well as folder histories and other convenient tools for navigation. These are all explained in this section.
Parent The parent tool takes you to the parent folder, one step up in the folder hierarchy, of the current folder.
Default shortcut key: BACKSPACE
Root Navigates the active folder window to the first level (root) of the current drive or FTP site.
Back
Navigates the folder window back to the previous folder you had open.
Forward Navigates the folder window forward in the history if you have previously gone back.
History Displays a list of recently accessed folders, archives and FTP sites. When invoked from the quick bar it presents a history local to the active folder window, e.g. only contains folders you have visited in that window. When invoked from other places, e.g. the navigation bar this tool presents a global history encompassing both folder windows.
Stop Stops ongoing foreground operations that occur in the active folder window.
Default shortcut key: ESCAPE
Refresh The Refresh tool updates (refreshes) the active folder window with new and/or changed files.
Folders on your local hard drive should be automatically refreshed when a change is done. However there may be times when folder contents is out of synch and a manual refresh is required.
Magellan Explorer will not automatically detect changes made by other programs/users on FTP sites and network drives. If you suspect that the content of such folders have been modified use the Refresh tool to bring the folder up to date. Furthermore, to reduce FTP latency the remote folder is not automatically refreshed after performing file operations. Instead, new files are added with limited information (no size, date, attributes etc) and deleted files are removed. Performing a refresh will update the folder window.
Note: Leaving and re-entering a folder will not necessarily refresh the contents.
Default shortcut key: F5
My Computer Displays a list of all the drives (hard drives, removable devices, mapped network drives etc) on the system in the active folder window.
Tip: You can also access your drives easily directly from the drive bar.
Default shortcut key: F4
Mirror Folder Loads (mirrors) the folder in the active folder window into the destination folder window.