Help me set up a view

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I am trying to set up a horizontal dual pane view where both panes are nav locked on the left and the viewer pane takes up half of the window on the right. The top lister is in thumbnail view and the bottom lister is in List view. I also want to filter out all but jpg/bmp/png.

I am halfway there I think but I'm stuck in a few areas. First, I tried styles but I couldn't get it to use half the window for the viewer pane. It keeps giving me 2/3 lister and 1/3 viewer. I also setup a layout but that doesn't seem to let me filter. It does allow me to get rid of the tree, which is another requirement.

How can I get all this at once? TIA.

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Lister Layouts? Like so?


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Exactly! So, how can I have a Lister Layout that includes a filter to only show my graphic files? I don't want to see things like .picasa.ini, etc.

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Okay, I found:
Set HIDEFILTERFILENAME *.ini

But, that only filters on one file display but not the other one.

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I just have a generic filter set on my local drive format.

goto Preferences - folders - Folder Formats

D/click Local drives, make sure it is checked as well.
in the filters tab set a hide filter along the lines of this i[/i]

Works like a charm

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That worked on my normal listers but when I use

Prefs Layout=Photos

the filter does not seem to work.

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Open the layout, set the filter (via Tools->Folder Options) and then re-save the Photos layout (Settings -> Lister Layouts).

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That also only filters the bottom folder view. The filter doesn't seem to apply to the top view, even though it is nav locked to the lower view.

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Each file display has its own format. You have to edit both (via Tools -> Folder Options) if you want both to change.

(Tools -> Folder Options edits the file display which is active, so activate the other one, set the filter in it, then save the layout.)

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Thank you very much. I have it now.

Different question but still related to thread title: How do I put more than one folder in the hide folders filter? I've tried separating them with different delimiters such as | or;. I can't see anything in the manual that addresses it. Pressing F1 from that dialog box certainly doesn't address it.

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Try searching : [Multiple folders in 'Hide Filter')