To address the elephant in the room first (the bright red arrow), you can right-click over an image and tell RightFolder to show this during music playback (described later). You cannot pick a WebP or PCX image for this, but you can pick a BMP, JPG, JFIF, ICO, PNG, SVG, WMF, TIF, or EMF image, or even a regular or animated GIF file! (You can preview WebP and PCX images in the main previewer window, though, the window you see here...)

Notice the checkboxes. Most of the actions you want to perform require you to check the checkboxes. This is to remove ambiguity, and make things easier. (With normal file selection, it's too easy to accidentally click the wrong file, undoing all other file selections!). Having said that, in order to simplify things, if you have a single file selected, RightFolder will act upon that, even if you haven't checked it (basically, RightFolder will "auto-check" it for you when you go to transport, rename or delete it).

Note that selecting files is different than checking them (that is, checking the checkboxes next to them). To clarify what we mean by "selected", note the "CareerBuilder_Monkey.divx" file in the screen in the next section below - that's the only selected file in the list, and it isn't checked (no checkbox).

You can check one set of files, and select a completely different set of files. Moving, copying, deleting and renaming only works with checked files, but doing drag and drop only works with selected files. (You DO NOT have to check a file in order to preview it; simply select it.)

RightFolder gives you a number of menu actions you can use to simplify selecting and checking (or unselecting and unchecking) files, as seen at left. Working together, using the checkboxes and then clicking "Select All Checked (For Drag and Drop)", it's ridiculously easy to share files with other apps. (Note that RightFolder only allows files to be dropped elsewhere; it does not allow files to be dropped within...)

Here's the run-down:

C) Here's where you enter a name for your profile You can change this later if you want.

A) This is the keyboard shortcut you assign to the profile. When you want to transport files and RightFolder displays a list of profiles that match the files you've chosen, you can choose a profile by using this key as the keyboard shortcut (or by clicking on the button). You can also change this key later if you want.

F) This is the type of the extension. The extension type tells RightFolder what to do with the file when you preview it, so be careful! If you change the extension type here, it affects the entire application. Once you've changed the extension type, there's no way to back out of that, even if you discard all other changes you've made to a profile, but you can always change the extension type back to what it was. There are only 7 extension types, plus a "not set" value:

H) - The extension itself. You cannot change this after the fact (even if you created the extension), but you are free to delete it from the current profile.

I) - A description of the extension type.

E) - The keyboard shortcut you have assigned to the destination folder. You can also see this in the "Add Folder" dialog you see here (front and center).

G) - The destination folder's full path. If the panel is not wide enough to show the entire path, RightFolder will abbreviate the path here (usually indicated with "..."). You can hold your mouse over the button to see the full path. If the path is so long that even the pop-up hint can't show the full path, you can click the button to the far right of it (J, described below) to see it. (Note that you can expand the panel by clicking on the vertical divider between the two panels and dragging it.)

J) - You can click this button to open the displayed folder in Windows Explorer.

B) - Click the "Done" button to save the new profile (or edits to the existing profile).

D) - Click "Delete" to delete the shown profile.

RightFolder can be used to listen to music or play videos (when VLC is installed). Media can be played in "Track Mode" or "Album Mode", and how this is done is also affected by the Playback | Repeat Media menu setting, as such:

You can change the play mode in the Preferences dialog, which is further described later.

In the screen here, you can see RightFolder playing music. The current play mode and repeat setting (A) can be seen above the image (B) shown in the preview panel. Track information can also be seen. The image you selected previously for music playback will appear here (or a default image if you haven't selected one).

The first tab page in the Preferences dialog shown below allows you to change app-wide settings:

The second tab page in the Preferences dialog is all about how RightFolder works when previewing files. Here's the breakdown:

Here's how to move or copy files:

Start out in the main previewer window. (If you're not sure you're in the previewer window, press the Cancel button until you see the main file list in the left panel.) Put checks in the checkboxes for the files you want to move or copy, as shown at left.

Press F7 (or click the Move button), or F8 (Copy button) to get the transport process started. Assuming you have at least one profile defined for all the file types you're transporting, you'll see the Profile Selector appear:

Now that you've selected a profile, the Folder Selector will appear:

Clicking either (C) or (D) (or using the shown keyboard shortcut) will initiate the actual transport.

IMPORTANT: This is the last place you can back out of the transport process (by clicking the Cancel button or hitting Escape)! If you proceed from here, there's no going back.

Well, at this point, we're obligated to mention that there is an optional "undo" premium feature that's made available to you if you purchase a registration code. This would allow you to roll back most operations...

If, during the file moving / copying transport process, you encounter a conflict (because of a duplicate filename), you will be presented with the Conflict Resolution dialog (seen at left).

This is pretty straightforward. If the existing source or destination files are images, they will be previewed here. No other file types are previewed here; instead, you will see generic information.

At this point, you have to decide how you want to handle the conflict. If you want to keep both files, you will either have to:

If you don't need to keep the existing destination file, you can use the "Overwrite" option to forceably overwrite the destination file with the source file. Or, you could decide to skip this file altogether by clicking "Skip File" or cancel the remaining transport process by clicking "Cancel".

One of the premium features that RightFolder has is that it can be used to create M3U playlists. If you have purchased a registration code to unlock all the premium features, just use the checkboxes to select audio or video files, then click the menu item seen at left.

The following dialog will appear, letting you select an existing playlist to overwrite or append to, or enter the name of a playlist you would like to create. Note that multi-folder playlists can be created by first creating a playlist from a single folder, switching folders in the main view, then going back into the dialog below and selecting the just-created playlist and selecting the "append" option. You can do this repeatedly to add as many songs/videos to a playlist (regardless of folder location) as you would like. (Note that RightFolder does not provide you a way to edit a playlist after the fact. However, the file format is simple, so you can easily rearrange/delete entries using Notepad or another text editor.)

RightFolder has two other premium features (dark mode, and "undo"), but they're not documented here.