The document list in the main window
It is important to understand that the list of documents you see in the main window of WhizFolders is just a list. It’s not a database that keeps your documents. Your documents are separate, distinct .wzfolder type files on your disk. They were created in a location of your choice. If you didn’t pay attention, they are probably in “My Documents.” If so, you should know the pitfalls of keeping them in My Documents (see another post in this category) and should move them out to your own folders if necessary. If you don’t understand this, read another article, How to set the default location of the documents?
By default, WhizFolders lists the documents that you opened in last used order. But you can right-click and keep them sorted on names. In the new version, we even show you the locations in the list. In the 5.6 version, you can see the location by moving your mouse pointer over an item or by opening it and then seeing the location.
You can edit this list
The main document list is editable by right-click menu. Suppose you decide to move all your documents out of the My Documents folder to another folder “D:\my whiz docs.” How do you do that? You open My Documents in Windows Explorer, then select and move all the *.wzfolder documents to that other folder by normal Explorer operations. No mystery there. If you want specific details, see Moving your existing documents.
Now the list keeps referring to the old location. There are many ways to modify this list. If you can see or remember which items are referring to the old location, you can select them all, right-click and remove from the list. The locations are easily seen in the new version. Mind you, this “remove” does not mean that the document itself will be deleted.
There is another article that describes this in more detail, Moving your existing documents.
Or, you can even try to open a document and if it doesn’t exist, WhizFolders will offer to remove it from the list.
How do you add the documents from the new location to the list? You can either right-click and add. Or, you can simply open them from the new location and they will be added to the list.
In all of the above discussion, we used the “remove from list.” There is another operation “purge” on the right-click menu that actually deletes the document. Use that with CAUTION, only when you want to delete the document as well.
