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The dedicated file manager focusing on usability

Feature Overview

Dolphin is a lightweight file manager. It has been designed with ease of use and simplicity in mind, while still allowing flexibility and customization. This means that you can do your file management exactly the way you want to do it. You will find more information on how to handle Dolphin in this tutorial or in the official Handbook.

Simple to use and dedicated file manager
Focus on usability
Breadcrumb navigation bar
Optional panels for convenient navigation and information display
Remote and pseudo-filesystem file management through KIO
Tag files and folders, and find files by content, using Baloo

At first look, this is a simple file manager, but it has many talents. Some features include:

Split windows - view and use two directories at the same time
Viewing attributes can be set (and remembered) independently for each window
Tabbed browsing
Use the optional informational panel on the right
Or elect to have essential attribute information displayed in the window
Use 'breadcrumb' navigation for speed
One-click change to editable navigation bar
Add Folders panel for traditional navigation
Add a terminal in the directory you are currently browsing
Many functions controlled by keyboard shortcuts

Tutorials

Hints, Tips and Troubleshooting

Problem: When I choose the application to open a specific filetype with, it seems to affect other filetypes too. It’s like Dolphin cannot tell the difference between the two different filetypes.

Solution: Probably the KDE platform does not know about one of the two filetypes, so it associates the filetype to a different, known filetype. This is common with XML-based filetypes; even if they use a file extension of their own (e.g. .xliff or .graphml), if they are not a filetype known by the KDE platform, they will be treated as any other XML file, and opened with the default application to open XML files.

To solve this issue, you can use File Associations to create an entry for the unrecognized filetype.

Problem: Dolphin's Find File service doesn't find files you know are on your computer.

Solution: Reindex Baloo. Baloo is a file indexing and search service that Dolphin uses to search for files. It needs to be indexed to work. To solve this problem, in a terminal type, balooctl check

Problem: There is no file transfer dialog.

Solution: As of KDE 5 jobs like file transfers are handled by default in centralized notification system; file transfer is also shown in task manager. To enable separate file transfer dialog disable file transfer tracking on both the System Tray notification area and the task manager plasmoid and re-login.

If your problem is not in this list, you may also look into the forums or ask your question there.

Keywords

File management, file manager, file browser, tags, metadata

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+'''Dolphin''' is a lightweight file manager. It has been designed with ease of use and simplicity in mind, while still allowing flexibility and customization. This means that you can do your file management exactly the way you want to do it. You will find more information on how to handle '''Dolphin''' in this [[Special:myLanguage/Dolphin/File Management | tutorial]] or in the official [http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/applications/dolphin/index.html Handbook].
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 :* ''Breadcrumb'' navigation bar
 :* Optional panels for convenient navigation and information display
-:* Remote and pseudo-filesystem file management through [[Glossary#KIO|KIO]]
+:* Remote and pseudo-filesystem file management through [[Special:myLanguage/Glossary#KIO|KIO]]
-:* Tag files and folders
+:* Tag files and folders, and find files by content, using [[Special:myLanguage/Glossary#Baloo|Baloo]]
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 :* [[Special:myLanguage/Dolphin/File Management#Discover Dolphin|Discover Dolphin]]
-:* [[Special:myLanguage/Dolphin/File_Management#File_System_Navigation|File System Navigation]]
 :* [[Special:myLanguage/Dolphin/File_Management#Archive_Management_in_Dolphin|Archive Management in Dolphin]]
+:* [[Special:myLanguage/Dolphin/Customize Folder Icon|Customize the icon of a folder]]
 :* [[Special:myLanguage/Dolphin/Batch_Rename|Rename multiple files at the same time]]
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-:* Problem: Dolphin's menu entries <menuchoice>View -> Additional</menuchoice> and/or <menuchoice>View -> Panels</menuchoice> don't have any options.  Nepomuk is enabled in System Settings.
+'''Problem:''' When I choose the application to open a specific filetype with, it seems to affect other filetypes too. It’s like '''Dolphin''' cannot tell the difference between the ''two different filetypes''.
-:* Solution: Rename the folder <tt>~/.kde4/share/apps/dolphin</tt> (in some distros it will be <tt>~/.kde/share/apps/dolphin</tt>) and restart dolphin. This will purge your dolphin customizations but the entries should be back. If everything works as expected you can then delete the folder. This happened to me after an upgrade from KDE 4.4 to 4.5
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+:'''Solution:''' Probably the KDE platform does not know about one of the two filetypes, so it associates the filetype to a different, known filetype. This is common with XML-based filetypes; even if they use a file extension of their own (e.g. <tt>.xliff</tt> or <tt>.graphml</tt>), if they are not a filetype known by the KDE platform, they will be treated as any other XML file, and opened with the default application to open XML files.
+<!--T:18-->
+:To solve this issue, you can use [[Special:myLanguage/System Settings/File Associations|File Associations]] to [[Special:myLanguage/System Settings/File Associations#Adding new file types|create an entry for the unrecognized filetype]].
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+'''Problem:''' Dolphin's Find File service doesn't find files you know are on your computer.
+<!--T:35-->
+:'''Solution:''' Reindex [[Special:myLanguage/Baloo|Baloo]]. Baloo is a file indexing and search service that Dolphin uses to search for files.  It needs to be indexed to work.  To solve this problem, in a terminal type, <tt>balooctl check</tt>
+<!--T:36-->
+'''Problem:''' There is no file transfer dialog.
+<!--T:37-->
+:'''Solution:''' As of KDE 5 jobs like file transfers are handled by default in centralized notification system; file transfer is also shown in task manager. To enable separate file transfer dialog disable file transfer tracking on both the System Tray notification area and the task manager plasmoid and re-login.
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-Also see the '''[http://dolphin.kde.org Dolphin Website]'''
+If your problem is not in this list, you may also look into the [https://discuss.kde.org/tag/dolphin forums] or ask your question there.
-and the '''[http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-apps/dolphin/index.html Dolphin Handbook]'''.
 == Keywords == <!--T:9-->
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-File management, file manager, file browser, tags, metadata, Nepomuk
+File management, file manager, file browser, tags, metadata
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