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索引
挂载磁卷
文件导航
外观设置
首选项
文件处理
传输状态

Tracker

Tracker是所有文件的图形界面显示工具。它允许您新建文件和文件夹,复制和删除文件,并且还可以对文件进行查询,启动和重命名等操作。

同其他的应用程序一样 (the Desktop with its icons is really just a fullscreen window in the background),Tracker与它的窗口出现在桌面栏,并且可以关闭和重启。 The easiest way to quit and restart a crashed or frozen Tracker (or a wayward Deskbar) is to call the Team Monitor.

index 挂载磁卷

为了能够访问硬盘,CD,USB磁盘等,您首先需要挂载这些磁卷,也就是告诉系统,它们存在。 右键点击桌面,或者已经挂载的刺卷(如启动盘),然后从 Mount 子菜单中选择磁卷。您也可以在桌面栏中找到相同的 Mount 菜单。

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还有一个 Mount Settings ,因此你不需要每次启动时都手动挂载所有磁卷。
上述的设置将会自动挂载您所连接/插入的所有存储设备,然后在启动时挂载所有曾经挂载过的磁盘。

在您断开硬件设备或者USB磁盘的连接时,一定要保证您已经成功的卸载了该磁卷。这样可以保证所有的数据传输已经结束,否则可能会导致数据的丢失或者损坏磁盘。

index 文件导航

默认情况下,双击文件夹,Tracker打开新窗口,并且保持先前的打开窗口。这将会很快导致桌面的拥挤。
您可以使用 OPT 键来阻止这种情况发生,它将会自动关闭先前的窗口。
这也同样适用于键盘导航,更多的信息可以参阅主题 快捷键和组合键

Moving through your folders is one of Trackers main purposes, just like the file managers on other platforms. Haiku's Tracker has some unique features that will help you doing that efficiently.

index进入子菜单

Instead of double-clicking your way down folder after folder, there's a better way to drill down:

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Right-click onto a folder, and at the top of the usual context menu you'll find a submenu of the current folder that let's you navigate down a level. Just move down the hierarchy until you find the file or folder you're looking for and click on it to open it. The above shows the contents of the folder /boot/home/config/.
If you do the above while dragging a file with you, it will be moved to where you eventually drop it.

A similar method can be used from any Tracker window:

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Click on the area in the lower left, where the number of items is listed, and you'll get submenus for every level above your current location. From there you can drill down through the folders as usual.

Note, that the Desktop is always the topmost level as that is where Tracker shows mounted volumes. So, if you want to go to another disk, you first have to navigate to the top (Desktop) and cross over to your other disk from there.


You'll get the same submenu-navigating when you drag a file over a folder. After a short while of hovering, a submenu pops up and you can drill down to your destination. If you initiated the drag with the right mousebutton, you can choose between copying, moving or linking the file when you release the mouse.

index Jumping to files with type-ahead

You may be familiar with the concept from file managers of other operating systems: typing the first few letters of a filename will jump to the first file matching these starting characters. Haiku took the idea a step further. If there isn't a file starting with those letters it will jump to the first file including the string anywhere in its name. And if there's nothing with the string in its filename, the attributes are searched next.

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In the above example, there are many files starting with "Haiku logo", rendering simpler approaches to typing ahead quite useless. In Haiku however, typing "web" jumps right to its first occurence in "Haiku logo - website". The characters you enter appear in the bottom left corner where you normally find the item count of all files in the folder. A second after entering a character, the display jumps back to normal and you're ready for a new type ahead search.

index Type-ahead filtering

Instead of jumping to a file while typing, there's also the option to filter out all files not matching your type-ahead string. This can improve clarity dramatically, especially when dealing with crowded folders. By using SHIFT SPACE as delimiter, you can even filter on multiple strings.
Contrary to type-ahead jumping, the filtering will stick until you press ESC or close the window (or leave the folder if you're using Single Window Navigation).
This type-ahead filtering is set in the Tracker preferences.

index 外观设置

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Tracker windows offer three different viewing modes from the Window menu:

The Window menu offers a number of other functions:

Sometimes you just want to rearrange a few icons without doing a complete Clean Up (ALT K). In that case, you select these icons and start to drag them to their new location. Before you drop them there, keep ALT pressed. This will align the icons to the invisible grid.

The rest of the functions are pretty self-explanatory, leaving the Tracker preferences.

index 首选项

Window | Preferences... opens a panel that offers a number of settings that, where not obvious, should become clear once tried out. Since all settings are applied live, you'll immediately see the changes.
So, in short, the not so obvious settings:

This panel, by the way, is also available as Tracker from Deskbar's Preferences.

index 文件处理

When invoked on a selected file, most of the File menu commands are also offered in the context menu by right-clicking that file.

As usual the commands are pretty clear.

index 传输状态

When you copy, move or delete files, Tracker shows its progress with a status window. If you initiate more than one transaction, each job gets its own status display.

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To the right are two buttons to pause or stop a transaction entirely. Sometimes it can be useful to temporarily pause a large transaction. For example, you may need to quickly launch a large application. Copying large amounts of data chokes your harddisk's IO bandwidth and thus delays your workflow.