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Workbench-Window-Icons-Tools

OPEN (Amiga-O)
This opens the window of the icon that is highlighted, allowing you to view its contents.

COPY (Amiga-C)
Highlight an icon then clicking on COPY copies that file (natch)renaming it "Copy_of_WHATEVER". When highlighting a disk a message will pop up asking to insert a source disk and destination disk. Highlighting this will bring up a menu asking you to:Copying Disks
The source and destination disk must be the same length (eg 100mb) for it to copy properly. The internal disk drive is an exception to this as it can copy OFS, FFS etc disks and change the size of the destination to the same type, such as OFS to AFS etc.A diskcopy can also be carried out by dragging the source disk icon over the destination disk icon, which will automatically load diskcopy.

RENAME (Amiga-R)
Rename

This is a bit obvious. It simply renames the icon/s that are highlighted. A menu will pop up asking you to enter a new name for the files. Avoid using filenames with spaces in as these can cause problems.
Keyboard shortcuts for text gadgets

INFORMATION (Amiga-I)
Highlighting an icon and clicking on INFOMATION brings up information about the file, such as the tooltype (Tool, project etc). As well as showing any comments, the date it was created and any preferences that are saved there. If it is classed as a PROJECT then it will also include the default tool that it loads when viewing the file.
More information

SNAPSHOT (Amiga-S)
This is the same as the snapshot in the windows menu, except that it makes a record of exactly where the icon is.

UNSNAPSHOT (Amiga-U)
If you realise that you didn't want to snapshot an icon this reverses the damage.

LEAVE OUT (Amiga-L)
Highlighting an icon, then selecting LEAVE OUT will leave the icon out on the main Workbench screen. This allows you to access it easily without going through millions of subdirectories. To snapshot this highlight WINDOW/SNAPSHOT/ALL to remember its position for when you reboot and it will be in the same place as before.

PUT AWAY (Amiga-P)
Any icon that you have left out can be put back from where it originated from by highlighting this. The icon can then be snapshotted to remember its position.

DELETE
Delete

A bit self explanatory, this one. Highlighting an icon then selecting this will delete that file.

FORMAT DISK
Highlight a disk icon to bring up a menu on format preferences. These are:

Format DF0

To format a disk from the CLI, type:

FORMAT DRIVE DF0: NAME CHEESE NOICONS.
This tells it format drive DF0:, calling the disk CHEESE and without a trashcan.
Format command options

EMPTY TRASH
Highlight the Trashcan icon and selecting this will bring upon a menu asking if you want to empty the trashcan.
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