This section is where you can configure the settings on what the File Browser will display: displaying thumbnails instead of icons for image files; showing or hiding file attribute columns; and other options that controls the display of the file browser.

How to access the Display Settings

To open the Display Settings, go to your Files tab then find the text link Display settings and click on it.

Once clicked, the Display Settings will appear above the File browser section. This is where you can configure the File Browser’s display settings

Display Settings Features

Images Panel

Thumbnails

These are reduced-size versions of pictures that provides a preview of the image file. Click on the checkbox to toggle its value to "checked" or "unchecked". If the checkbox value is checked, it will display the thumbnails of the image files instead of the icons.

Dimensions

Indicates the horizontal and vertical measurements of an image expressed in pixels. Click on the checkbox to toggle its value to "checked" or "unchecked". If the checkbox value is checked, it will display the pixel dimensions of the image files.

Columns Panel

File Type

This will display the "Type" column which list the file format which is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. Click on the checkbox to toggle its value to "checked" or "unchecked". If the checkbox value is checked, it will display the "Type" column. It will show the file type of each items on the list. Such as for example for images, it will display the file extension (JPEG, PNG, GIF).

Last Change

This will display the "Last change" column. This provides the latest time stamp information on when the files have been modified. There are three options you can select from.

Options:

• No: if selected, the "Last change" column will not be displayed.
• Smart date format: if selected, it will display the "Last change" date depending on how recent it is.
  

  

• Long format: if selected, it will display the "Last change" column with long date format (mm/dd/yy hr:min:sec).
  

  

File Permissions

This will display the "Perms" column, label "Perms" is short for Permission. There are two checkboxes with different formats. To know more about permissions, read directory and file permissions.

• Unix file permissions: Click on the checkbox to toggle its value to "checked" or "unchecked". If the checkbox value is checked, it will display the Unix file permissions in the short format like "775".
  

  

• Check to display file permissions like "rwxr-xr-x" rather than short form: Click on the checkbox to toggle its value to "checked" or "unchecked". If the checkbox value is checked, it will display the long format, like "rwxr-xr-x".
  

  

File Owner

This will display the "Owner" column. Every file is assigned a user and that user is the owner of the file. The user has permission to change the group and mode of the file. No one else (but the administrators) is able to make these changes.

The file owner can often be useful for showing you who edited the file, but its main purpose is for access control. Moreover, this will indicate to whom the file belongs to. When a file is created, its owner is set to the effective user ID of the process that creates it. Such as if you have uploaded a file, then your user ID will be listed on the Owner column of this file. Signifying that it belongs to you.

Click on the checkbox to toggle its value to "checked" or "unchecked". If the checkbox value is checked, it will display the "Owner" column.

File Group

This will display the "Group" column. Every file is assigned a group. This is the "group owner" of the file. Groups allow you to grant access to a limited number of users. The group affects every member of the group. The file’s group ID may be set to either the effective group ID of the process, or the group ID of the directory that contains the file, depending on the system where the file is stored.

Click on the checkbox to toggle its value to "checked" or "unchecked". If the checkbox value is checked, it will display the "Group" column.

Added by

When enabled, this will display the "Added by" column that contains the login of the User who uploaded the file.

Download Count

When enabled, this will display the "Downloads" column that indicates the number of times the file has been downloaded through disp = download.

Options Panel

Hidden Files

Hidden directory or hidden file is a directory (folder) or file which file system utilities do not display by default. They are commonly used for storing user preferences or preserving the state of a utility and are frequently created implicitly by using various utilities. Any file or directory that starts with a period or full stop character (for example, /home/user/.config) is to be treated as hidden.

Click on the checkbox to toggle its value to "checked" or "unchecked". This will display system hidden files/folders, such as:

• To show files that start with a dot (.), for example .htaccess. Check the first checkbox.
• To show _evocache folders. Check the second checkbox.

Folders First

This option will list the directories/folders first before the files. Click on the checkbox to toggle its value to "checked" or "unchecked". If the checkbox value is checked, it will set to display folders before files always.

Folders Sizes

This option will provide calculation on the used memory size of the folders. Click on the checkbox to toggle its value to "checked" or "unchecked". If the checkbox value is checked, it will compute the size of folders recursively and display it under the "Size" column.

Filter box

This enable you to define search criteria and provide more efficient and effective searches. There are three radio button options, you can enable only one of the three options

• Don’t show: if selected, the filter box will not be displayed.
• Simple: if selected, it will display a simple filter box.
  

  

• With regular expressions: displays filter box with the capability to use Regular Expressions (RegEx) are a powerful way of matching a sequence of simple characters.
  

  

  For example:
  Using a caret (^) at the beginning of line (if it is at the start of the expression) such as [color=red]^[/color]The.* will result to filter any line that starts with the string "The".