How I Use My Dell

Re:How I Use My Dell by unalone on Friday November 14, 2008 @07:39PM (#365022)

I think that the tree view in Exploring while still showing the contents of the tree is great

But that's something that Finder handles, also. The CMD-2 view. Or am I missing something?

Also, what are in Merge and Tortoise? I don't get what context menu integration means.

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Re:How I Use My Dell by elai on Friday November 14, 2008 @08:11PM (#365050)

the cmd-2 view shows files & folders in one window, while explorer shows a tree of folders only on the left and the contents on the right.

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Re:How I Use My Dell by unalone on Friday November 14, 2008 @10:44PM (#365120)

Sounds a bit excessive. But whatever works, works. Thanks for clarifying!

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Re:How I Use My Dell by wizlb on Friday November 14, 2008 @08:14PM (#365053)

Context menu integration (more commonly known as shell integration) means that when you install certain programs like Tortoise, the program will add extra menu items to the context menus that show up when you right-click files of a specific type or a folder.

I love my Beyond Compare shell integration. Right-click on Folder A, choose "select left side", find Folder B, right click, choose "compare to Folder A" and then Beyond Compare pops up and diffs all the files in the two folders.

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Re:How I Use My Dell by unalone on Friday November 14, 2008 @10:45PM (#365121)

Oh, gotcha.

I don't know. I never really used that as a Windows user. It seemed to add clutter, and that always bugged me. But I guess it helps for some things.

Beyond Compare sounds nifty.

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