Application Overview
The SoftCabinets main window.
Cabinets are
the outermost section of SoftCabinets software. In a real-world
situation, if you wish to see a file, then you first open your
cabinet, then pull one of the shelves in it, and the files kept
in that shelf, are in front of you.
In the same manner, when you wish to store
or see a folder shortcut in SoftCabinets, then you first select
a Cabinet. As soon as you select a Cabinet, it starts showing its
own Shelves. There are total 3
Cabinets is SoftCabinets.
The active Cabinet is always visible in
the Cabinets drop-down box.
To select a Cabinet, open the drop-down
box and click on the desired Cabinet’s name. The
selected Cabinet’s name starts appearing in the drop-down
window.
Select the desired Cabinet, and either click on the Set As Default button
or choose Cabinet > Set As
Default from the menu. The default
Cabinet appears first when you launch SoftCabinets in future.
Select the desired Cabinet, and either click on the Rename... button or
choose Cabinet > Rename... from the menu.
WARNING: THIS ACTION WILL PERMANENTLY
DELETE THE SELECTED CABINET AND ALL OF ITS SHELVES &
FOLDER-LOCATIONS!
Select the desired Cabinet, and either click on the Delete... button or
choose Cabinet > Delete... from the menu. For verification purpose, you
will be prompted to enter the Access-Code. Enter the correct Access-Code to delete the
selected Cabinet.
Shelves are the 16 sections found inside
each Cabinet, and each Shelf has 16 Folder-Locations in it.
When you select a Cabinet, by default its first Shelf is always
selected. The active (selected) Shelf appears in a brighter
shade and also shows a brighter color horizontal bar attached
to it. When you click on any one of these 16 Shelves, that
Shelf becomes active (selected) and starts showing the 16 Folder-Locations stored in it (the group of 16
Folder-Locations appears on the far right-side).
The active Shelf appears in a brighter
shade.
To make a Shelf active
or to view the 16 Folder-Locations of your desired Shelf, click
anywhere on the Shelf. When you click a Shelf, it turns
brighter and starts showing its Folder-Locations on the far-right side.
To rename a Shelf, either right-click the
Shelf and choose Rename... or choose Shelf >
Rename... from the menu.
WARNING: THIS ACTION WILL PERMANENTLY
DELETE THE SELECTED SHELF AND ALL OF ITS
FOLDER-LOCATIONS!
To delete a Shelf, either
right-click the Shelf and choose Delete...
or choose Shelf > Delete... from
the menu
The Folder-Locations are the places where
you store your favorite or important folder-shortcuts, and they
appear on the far right-side of the main window of
SoftCabinets.
1. To store a folder-shortcut in a
Folder-Location, right-click a Folder-Location and choose: New Folder-Location
(shortcut)... from the context menu
2. The folder selection window appears.
Select the desired folder by double-clicking it (the selected folder’s name will appear in
the Folder-Location Title text box. Changing this title will
not change the actual name of the folder).
3. Once you have selected a folder, click
on the Store This Folder Location button. The name of
the folder-shortcut appears in the Folder-Location.
To open a folder, double-click on the
Folder-Location (showing the name of a folder-shortcut).
If you get an error-message, it means that
either the destination folder has been renamed / moved /
deleted, or you have just given a title to this Folder-Location but have not stored any folder-shortcut in it.
To rename a Folder-Location, right-click
on it and choose Rename Title... from the context menu. Enter the desired name in
the Folder-Location Title dialog.
Renaming the title of a Folder-Location
does not change the actual name of the folder. With this
feature you can make the names of your folder-shortcuts more
meaningful. For example, you can store a folder-shortcut called NEW DOWNLOADS and
change its title to PARTY SONGS or SONGS FOR NEXT OUTING.
TIP: You can
rename a Folder-Location even if you have not stored a
folder-shortcut in it.
1. To remove a folder-shortcut from its
Shelf, right-click on the desired Folder-Location and choose Remove... from the
context menu.
A warning message appears, confirming
whether you really want to remove this Folder-Location.
2. Click YES if you wish to removed this Folder-Location, or
click NO if you wish to retain it.
Removing a Folder-Location does not
actually delete any folder from your PC. It only deletes the
folder shortcut currently stored in that Folder-Location.
