Commands

Cursor movement/folder select

"HOME", "END", "UP", "DOWN", "PGUP", "PGDN" move cursor

"ENTER" Run highlighted file/change to highlighted folder

"ESCAPE" Top of list (HOME) or change to parent folder if already at top of list

"BACKSPACE" Change to parent folder regardless of cursor position

"CTRL-HOME" Change to root folder in current drive

"+", "-", "=" Change to next/previous drive letter

"SPACE" Next tagged file/folder

"ALT-ENTER" Open current folder in Windows Explorer

"CTRL-ENTER" Edit viewer/association/script

"F5" Refresh current folder

"TAB", "SHIFT-TAB", "LEFT", "RIGHT" Change folder window

Fast Find

Hold down SHIFT key and press first few characters of a filename to quickly locate it in the current view

Set favourite folder / Select favourite folder

Set "CTRL-ALT-0" To "CTRL-ALT-9"

Select "ALT-0" To "ALT-9"

If you have a few folders that you use often, save them in one of the 10 favourite folder slots. Slots are numbered 0 thru 9 using the numbers on the keyboard. You can quickly open these folders at any time either by pressing ALT-x or from the Favourites drop down menu.

Scripts

Set script "CTRL-F1" To "CTRL-F9", "CTRL-F10" To "CTRL-F12"

Run script "ALT-F1" To "ALT-F9", "ALT-F10" To "ALT-F12"

Edit script "CTRL-ALT-F1" To "CTRL-ALT-F9", "CTRL-ALT-F10" To "CTRL-ALT-F12"

You can create scripts that can be run for specific file types (associations) or as general purpose user defined macros. Scripts can be assigned to the function keys F1 thru F12. Hold down the CTRL key and press a function key to assign a script to it. Hold down the ALT key and press a function key to run the script. Hold down CTRL-ALT and press a function key to edit the script.

Quit QD6

"ALT-Q"

Create new folder

"INSERT"

Copy tagged files/folders to Windows clipboard

"CTRL-C", "CTRL-INSERT" 

Paste files/folders from Windows clipboard

"CTRL-V", "SHIFT-INSERT"

Count bytes in folder

"ALT-A"

This counts up the bytes for all files in the highlighted folder (and sub-folders) and places the final count in the size column. Note: This can take some time on large folders!

Create/Open a pspbrwse.jbf file (forces Paint Shop Pro to update thumbnails)

"B"

If you use Paint Shop Pro this is a handy feature. If a pspbrwse.jbf file already exists you can simply hit ENTER on it to open the Paint Shop Pro browser window. However, if the file doesn't exist there's no easy way to open the browser. You have to open Pain Shop Pro then manually select Browse and find the folder. With QD6, just press B. If the pspbrwse.jbf file doesn't exist, QD6 creates an empty file and opens it, this forces Pain Shop Pro to open the browser window and refresh the thumbnails.

Copy/Move files/folders

"C", "M"

Delete files/folders

"D", "CTRL-D", "DELETE"

Edit highlighted file (in notepad)

"E"

Create a new text file (in notepad)

"ALT-E"

Change filespec/pattern (filter files by wildcard)

"F" ' Filespec/Filter

Opens Windows folder browser to select a folder

"G" ' Goto

Global files / Find Files

"CTRL-G", "CTRL-F"

Compare folders

"K"

Select two folders with similar file contents,  then press "K" and select from the following:

U - UNIQUE    Tags files that exist in one folder but not the other
C - COMMON    Tags files that exist in both folders
I - IDENTICAL    Tags files that exist in both folders and have the same size and date
N - NEWER    Tags files that exist in both folders and are newer
O - OLDER    Tags files that exist in both folders and are older
L - LARGER    Tags files that exist in both folders and are larger
S - SMALLER    Tags files that exist in both folders and are smaller

Log drive/folder

"H", "L", "N"

Select a local/logical drive, network share, favourite folder or recent folder

Create an m3u play list from all mp3 files or tagged mp3 files

"ALT-M"

Generates an m3u play list from either tagged or all mp3 files in the current view
(Hint: Use global/filter to find all mp3 files, then press ALT-M to generate a play list for them all)

Print directory listing

"P"

Print a formatted directory listing for either all files/folders or tagged files/folders.

Rename files/folders

"R", "F2"

Rename a file/folder.
Rename files/folders by wildcard
Rename an mp3 file according to it's ID3 tag
Rename files/folders to internet friendly names (makes lower case and removes spaces)

Sort directory listing

"S"

Sort by Name, Type, Size, Date

View highlighted file/folder (internal QuickView)

"V"

Built in viewer for many common file formats:

BMP, GIF, JPG, TIF, PNG image formats
WAV, MID, MP3 audio formats
AVI, MPG, WMV video formats
Plus TXT, HTML and other formats

The build in viewer can be customised to support other file types including most standard audio/video and image formats.

Tag files/folders

"T", "SHIFT-DOWN", "SHIFT-UP" Tag highlighted file/folder and move up/down

"CTRL-T" Tag all files
"CTRL-U" Un-tag all files
"CTRL-R", "ALT-R" Reverse all file tags
"CTRL-ALT-T" Tag all files and folders (tag everything)
"CTRL-ALT-U" Un-tag all files and folders (un-tag everything)
"CTRL-ALT-R" Reverse all file/folder tags
"SHIFT-CTRL-T" Tag all folders
"SHIFT-CTRL-U" Un-tag all folders
"SHIFT-CTRL-R" Reverse all folder tags
"ALT-T" Tag by wildcard (ie *.mp3 tags all mp3 files)
"ALT-U" Un-tag by wildcard
"SHIFT-ALT-T" filter by tags (show only tagged files)