Once you have a Tracker window open in
front of you, you can use it to navigate or "move around"
in the file system. Specifically, you can open the window's "parent"
folder (ascending), or open a "child" folder
(descending).
As mentioned earlier, if you hold down the Option (or
Windows) key when opening a folder, the original Tracker
window is replaced by the new one.
Ascending
There are three ways to open the parent folder of the Tracker window
that you're currently working in:
- By choosing Open Parent from the Window menu.
- By pressing Alt+up arrow.
- By clicking the lower-left edge of the window to pop open a
list that describes the "path" to your current folder,
as shown below. You can open any folder from the list by clicking
on it.
Descending
In addition to simply double-clicking a displayed folder, you can
descend the file system--and descend it by more than one folder
at a time--by using a folder's context menu. Press down the right
mouse button on a folder and its context menu will pop open. What
you get up when choosing the first option in the context menu, is
a hierarchical folder menu. With this menu you can slide through
subdirectories until you reach your destination. All of the files
in the destination folder will appear, and you can select the wanted
file or folder in this menu.

You can also pop open a folder's context menu by dragging and holding
some other file (or folder) icon over it. While navigating the target
folder's contents, you can drop the dragged icon onto a folder in
the menu to move the dragged file/folder into the dropped-upon folder,
or drop a dragged file onto an application icon to open the file
with that app.
As you can see in the illustration above, the menus double back
on themselves--and will even sprout scrollers, if necessary--to
keep from spilling off the screen. For a complete list of keyboard
shortcuts that you can use to navigate Tracker windows, see Shortcuts.
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