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RBrowser Inspector Panel

This panel shows information about the selected file or directory in the selected (or current) browser.

The top portion shows the name of the file, followed by the full path.

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1: Link to:

If the selected file is a symbolic link, this field will show the target of the link

2: Size:

Size of the selected file or directory (if known).

3: Compute size:

This button is enabled if a directory is selected. If pressed, it starts a background process to find the size of the selected directory (recursively). When the operation is finished, the the size fileld is updated.

4: Owner:

Shows the owner of the selected file. This field is not meaningful if connected to a non UNIX host.

5: Group:

Shows the group of the selected file. This field is not meaningful if connected to a non UNIX host.

6: Permissions:

If the remote host is some flavor of UNIX, this field will contain the standard UNIX permission matrix, showing permissions of the selected file ot directory. If the selection is a directory, the "Apply to files inside the selection" button will also appear.

There are two modes for setting permissions:

a: the selection is a file, the cells in the matrix have two states ON (check mark) or OFF (x)

b: there are multiple files selected, or the selection is a directory and the "Apply to files inside the selection" button is checked the cells have a third state: NO CHANGE (-)

If there are changes made, the "Set" button will be enabled.

7: Set: set the new settings.

8: Revert: keep the old settings.

9: Changed: Shows the date the selection was last modified.

If the Tools tab is selected, you will see the following:
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On this screen you can pick an application to open the selected file with. For instance, right now the selected file is an html document. RBrowser shows you all the applications which claim to be able to open html documents. The default app will always be first. This is the app that will open the document if you just double click on it in the File Viewer window.
A single click on an app tile will select the tile, and show you the full path of the application.
A double click will open the document in the app clicked on.
The "Set Default" button will make the selected app the default to open this kind of file (html in this case)
The "Refresh App List" button will make RBrowser re-search all known application locations (defined in the Global Preferences under the Documents tab) for apps that open this kind of document. The results are cached, because this is an expensive search.

Access Tab:
this tab shows the same permissions as the Attributes tab, but also shows the execute bits.


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