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Tips and Tricks

There are many internal PRO USER tricks and keyboard shortcuts that are inside basehead that you might not know about yet listed below.

1a. Holding (Ctrl/CMD) while clicking an ‘Import’ ‘Group’ or ‘CloudPack’  or Exploded ‘Import’ folder will create a Search Filter Block.

2. If you DnD a folder to the lower left Transfer Path combo box it will set it this folder’s path as your Transfer Path.

3. Holding (Ctrl /CMD) before you DnD from the Results Page will disable “Bring to Foreground” if enabled.
This feature is normally to bring your Target app to the foreground, but sometime your want to drag to another destination so it’s handy to know this one!

4. After Tagging a bunch of files you can hold Ctrl or Option (on macOS) and drag the Taglist from the DnD Bar instead of having to look at the Taglist Page first.

5. If you drag an image file to the lower part of the Details Panel it will apply it to the selected records. Right Click of it will remove it.

6 Clicking the count ball number above the Taglist Tab and Results Tab will reset them.

7. Holding Shift and using the mouse wheel over the waveform will Zoom In/Out on it.

8.  The Database, Taglist, Process Panel and many areas allow to show the folder from the page.  I know that doesn’t sound like a big deal untl you realize that it starts a folder watcher to track changes.  So now you can rename, add and delete presets them from the comfort of Explorer/Finder and the changes will update in basehead list views immediately.  Seems small but it’s a huge workflow improvrement.

9. CloudBased files are not allowed to be dragged from the Results List as you can’t reference a file in the the Cloud, but sometime you might want to add them to ‘Collections’ or ‘Groups’.  To do this you can hold ALT on PC or Option on Mac to allow dragging to these nodes.

10. Holding (Ctrl/CMD) while clicking the ‘Transfer Path’ or the ClouckPack ‘Refresh Images’ or ‘Refresh CPM Databases’ buttons will reveal them in (Explorer/Finder)

11. You can (Ctrl/CMD) + Click on the left side search glass icon in the Main Search box will toggle between “Deep Character Search” and the normal Full Text Search mode that searches via full words only.