Filesystem View

The filesystem view shows the current directory. Get to the filesytem view anytime by entering . (meaning current directory) or a directory path.

The filesystem view lets you navigate to files/directories by clicking links rather than typing. If you enter a query from this view it will be a caps query against all capture files in the current directory and all subdirectories.

The .. link goes to the parent directory. Clicking it from the root directory of a drive will show the system drives:

Filesystem in command box

Entering the path and filename of a capture file in the command box will open it. If the file is in the current directory, prefix it with .\ rather than the full path.

Typing .\ brings up dropdown support for files and directories in the current directory. The dropdown will filter names containing the typed characters:

Typing a backslash after the directory name will then list the files in that subdirectory:

See also

• Parts of the Window
• Commands