The launcher

The launcher is the way to open anything in X-Filer without hunting for it: a drive, a pinned folder, a project, a recent place or a path you paste.

Open it with the search field at the top of the sidebar, the + next to Open tabs, or ⌘T / Ctrl+T.

What it shows

Before you type:

• Drives — the disks of this computer and the connected cloud drives and servers, with free space. Connect adds a new one.
• Pinned folders — your pins and the standard folders: Desktop, Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Music, Movies. Pin folder adds one.
• Recent — places you opened lately, newest first.

Type to filter them all at once: the results show pinned items, open tabs, drives, projects and recent places whose names match.

Open a path

Paste or type a path — ~/Documents/Invoices, /Volumes/Backup or D:\Photos — and the first result is Open path as typed.

Keys

Key	Action
↑ ↓	move through the results
↵ / Enter	open in the current tab
⌥↵ / Alt+Enter	open in the other pane of split view
⌘↵ / Ctrl+Enter	open in a new tab
esc	close the launcher

The launcher looks for places, not for files inside folders. To find a file, open the folder and use search.