Project Folder Manager

Project Folder Manager 7.0.0

The 6.2 dashboard rebuilt as a proper Windows program, with a cleaner look: it installs, keeps itself up to date, and never freezes while it works.

Download ProjectFolderManager-Setup.exe below and open it. No administrator rights are needed. The first time it opens it asks what to open: click a drive, or choose any folder. If a 6.2 copy's settings are on the PC, the start page offers to bring them in.

Help built in

• MANUAL in the top bar (or F1) explains every part of the program, topic by topic: getting started, the folder list, search, the index, the side panel, LIST / EDIT, views, the keyboard and updates. The start page has HOW TO USE IT too.

Simpler

• Open a drive or any folder. The start page shows your drives with their free space; one click opens one. Change the folder any time from the top left, where your recent ones are kept.
• The list follows the disk by itself. Folders made, renamed or deleted in Explorer show up within a few seconds, so there is nothing to scan, rebuild or fix: SCAN, REBUILD, FIX NAMES and MISSING are gone. Disciplines you choose are remembered by folder name.
• One calm top bar in place of the banner and the toolbar: the folder, search with DEEP and the discipline, then INDEX, GO TO, the view and ⋯, and a small clock (click it for the calendar).
• Above the list: how many folders, the index, EXPAND ALL, COLLAPSE and refresh.

Everything else from 6.2

The disciplines and their colours, sub-folder counts, VIEW and OPEN, the tree; INDEX for this folder, the whole drive or all drives, with STOP; DEEP search and the discipline filter; the side panel with copy, cut, paste (replace / keep both / skip, once or for all), rename, delete to the Recycle Bin, LIST / EDIT; the drives strip; the six views (Alt+1 to Alt+6); the clock and calendar; and the keys Ctrl+C / X / V / A, Delete, F2 and Esc.

New

• Installs and updates itself: a normal installer, Start menu and desktop shortcuts, listed in Settings → Apps. New versions are offered when it opens and checked before they install.
• Indexes by itself in the background when a folder is new or its index is old, so search is instant without pressing INDEX. The window stays usable, and STOP keeps what was found.
• UNDO (Ctrl+Z) for renames, moves, copies and new folders.
• LIST / EDIT shows a preview of every rename, and any problem, before a name changes; quick tools number, add text, find and replace, and change case for every line at once; names can swap.
• Right-click menus everywhere, drag and drop from the panel onto any folder, Back / Forward, a clickable path, sorting by name, type, size or date, dates in the panel, the arrow keys, Enter, Backspace, F5 and Ctrl+F.
• Pinned folders, Properties with a folder's size, and FIND that looks on every drive for project folders.
• An empty folder can be given the standard 00_Admin … 99_Archive folders in one click.
• Folders are merged (as in Explorer) when you replace one with another of the same name.
• Settings and the index are kept in your AppData, so the program works from any folder.