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If you want to locate the most recent files in a folder, you can view the folders contents in the List View mode and click the Date Modified header.

The Tracker - View Options

The Tracker comes with three different view modes: Icon View, Mini Icon View and List View. You can easily switch between the three different modes in the View Menu. In all three view modes you can navigate through the folders on your computer by double-clicking them.

Icon Views: Icon View and Mini Icon View
By default the Tracker shows you the icons with the Icon View.

In Icon View and Mini Icon View, you can move an icon within the window by dragging it to the location you want. If more than one icon is selected, they all move when you drag.

You can add the folders background pictures, so that you easily can find back to the different folders.

Some of the commands in the Window menu arrange the icons in a grid. Choose Clean Up to align each icon in the window to the nearest location in the grid. If you hold down the Shift key, Clean Up changes to Clean Up All, which sorts the icons in the window in alphabetical order.

List View
With List View Tracker is displaying all available information about a file or folder in tabular form.

The columns in the List view represent the attributes for each file. Clicking on a column, sorts the file listing based on that column's values.

By default, the column values are listed alphabetically in descending order. Clicking a column header again reverses the sorting order. To set a secondary sort field, this is a "tie-breaker" for the case where two items have the same primary value, hold down the Shift key and click on another attribute. A dotted underline indicates the secondary field. Click a second time on either attribute to sort in reverse order.

You can might not see all info available on a column for some files, by placing the mouse cursor at the edge of the column and click-dragging to the right or left, the widt of the column will be changed. A special cursor shows that you're in resize mode.

Pop open the Attributes menu to select the attributes you want to display.

The list of attributes depends on the type of files the window contains, but some common attributes (name, size, and modification date) are available to all files.

To change the order of the attributes, just drag the attribute title to a new location (within the attribute title bar) and drop it. To remove an attribute, grab the title and drag it out of the attribute bar.

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