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| <h1 class="topictitle1">Managing archived files</h1> |
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| <p>You can work with archived files and folders in the Remote System Explorer.</p> |
| <p>Use the Remote Systems view perform the following actions with archived files:</p> |
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| <li><a href="#tarchive__browse">Browse files in an archive</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#tarchive__copy">Copy, paste, and move archives</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#tarchive__drag">Drag and drop files between archives</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#tarchive__create">Create files and folders within an archive</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#tarchive__delete">Delete archives</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#tarchive__search">Search for content within an archive</a></li> |
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| <p>Pick from the following:</p> |
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| <th align="left" valign="bottom" id="d0e45">Task</th> |
| <th align="left" valign="bottom" id="d0e47">Description</th> |
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| <td align="left" valign="top" id="d0e50" headers="d0e45"><b>Browsing:</b></td> |
| <td align="left" valign="top" headers="d0e47 d0e50">To browse and open |
| files in an archive, click the plus sign beside the archive to display the |
| contents. Continue to expand folders within the archive or double-click any |
| file to open it in the default editor. Save files as you normally would and |
| they are saved in the archive. In the properties view, note the addition of |
| "#archive#" to the path of the file, to indicate how the file exists inside |
| the archive.</td> |
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| <td align="left" valign="top" id="d0e55" headers="d0e45"><b>Copying and pasting:</b></td> |
| <td align="left" valign="top" headers="d0e47 d0e55">To copy |
| and paste files, or move them from one location to another, right-click a |
| file or folder inside an archive and select <b>Copy</b> or <b>Move</b>. (When |
| you select <b>Move</b> instead of <b>Copy</b>, you delete the file in the |
| original location, to move it to a new one.) Using the window that opens, |
| you can paste the item to any archived, or unarchived location by expanding |
| the tree-view to any specific location, and clicking <b>OK</b>. Note that |
| you can perform this action across different connections as well.</td> |
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| <td align="left" valign="top" id="d0e75" headers="d0e45"><b>Dragging and dropping:</b></td> |
| <td align="left" valign="top" headers="d0e47 d0e75">You can |
| drag and drop files between archives, from an archive to an unarchived location, |
| or from an unarchived location into an archive. Expand both the original and |
| destination locations in the Remote Systems view, click the item you want |
| to move, and drag it with your cursor to the new location. Note that you can |
| perform this action across different connections as well.</td> |
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| <td align="left" valign="top" id="d0e80" headers="d0e45"><b>Creating:</b></td> |
| <td align="left" valign="top" headers="d0e47 d0e80">To create files and |
| folders inside an archive, or to create a new archive, right-click any folder |
| in the archive, or the root level archive itself, and select: |
| <ul> |
| <li><b>New > File</b> to create a normal file within the archive. You can |
| also select the file type to be an archive, whereby you can create an archive |
| inside of an archive.</li> |
| <li><b>New > Folder</b> to create a normal folder within the archive. Then |
| right-click your virtual folder to create more folders or files.</li> |
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| <td align="left" valign="top" id="d0e94" headers="d0e45"><b>Deleting:</b></td> |
| <td align="left" valign="top" headers="d0e47 d0e94">To delete a file |
| or folder from inside an archive, simply right-click the item and select <b>Delete</b>, |
| or hit the Delete key. </td> |
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| <b>Searching for content inside an archive:</b></td> |
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| To search for files within an archive, right-click the archive, select <b>Search</b>, |
| and complete the dialog box to specify what kinds of files and folder you |
| want to find. Note that if you begin your search on a normal, unarchived directory |
| that contains an archive, the default behaviour is <i>not</i> to search the |
| archive. You need to check the <b>Search archive files</b> checkbox to search for |
| contents inside archives in that directory.</td> |
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