Archive Window

The archive document window presents the contents of an archive. The window has six principle parts:

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Item Browser: Items captured in the archive
Navigation Bar: Location & history of the item browser
Layer Browser: Layers in the archive
Left Sidebar: Calendar or Owner & Volumes
Right Sidebar: Inspector, Actions, Stacks, Schedule, or Log
Toolbar: View modes, shortcuts, and the search field

Item Browser

The item browser shows the items captured in the archive. This is where you view, select, and inspect captured items.

Items can be viewed in one of three browser styles: icon, list, or column. These views mimic the same styles in the Finder. Choose the style from the toolbar or the View menu.

The View ➤ Sort ➤ submenu determines how items are ordered.

Some browser styles have additional view controls, such as label and icon size controls.

Quick Look Steps

You can preview most items in the archive using Quick Look:

Select one, or a few, items in the item browser
Press the space bar or ⌘+Y

Quick Look works by recalling the selected items to a temporary location. Because of this, there are limits on the size and number of items you can preview. See advance preferences to adjust these limits.

Navigation Bar

The navigation bar indicates the item browser's location within the archive hierarchy. Click on a segment to jump back up to an enclosing folder, volume, or owner.

The very top of the hierarchy is where you'll find the owners (identity keys) and volumes contained in the archive.

The arrow buttons step through your navigation history: the left button steps backwards through your navigation history, the right button goes forward again.

Layer Browser

The layer browser list the layers in the archive.

The line extending from an item through the layers is a timeline; each mark along the line indicates a different version of that item in the archive.

Also see rewind and layer shades.

Left Sidebar

The left sidebar shows one of:

Hide: collapse the sidebar and hide it
Calendar: display the layers in a calendar / timeline
Owners & Volumes: browse the root owners and volumes in the archive

Resize the calendar sidebar to change its scale. The calendar sidebar has its own set of layer shades, identical to the shades in the layer browser.

Right Sidebar

The right sidebar shows one of:

Inspector: details about the currently selected layer(s), item(s), or the archive (when nothing is selected)
Stacks: view, edit, and maintain the stacks for this archive
Actions: view, run, suspend, or edit the actions for this archive
Schedule: preview the schedule of actions
Log: shows log records specifically related to this archive
Hide: collapse the sidebar and hide it

Toolbar

The toolbar contains a number of convenient shortcuts. To customize your toolbar, choose View ➤ Customize Toolbar….