Settings

Settings open from ⋯ → “Settings”. Pages come in three groups: what's on screen, what happens to files, and housekeeping; subpages are indented under their parent page. F1 or “?” next to the window buttons opens the guide at the section about the open page.

A setting that works only together with another one is indented under it. In a number field, the mouse wheel changes the value by 1, Shift+wheel by 10, and dragging sideways changes it smoothly. “Cancel” in the Settings window reverts everything you changed while it was open.

Folders and bookmarks

On startup: “Last folder” opens the session where it ended, “Working folder” starts in the chosen folder every time (“Documents” out of the box).
Folders pane: “Open folders as you move to them with the keyboard” and “Scroll sideways to long names”.
Standard bookmarks: Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Desktop, Music, Videos, Recycle Bin.

Learn more: “Navigation”, “Folder panes”.

File list

Show in the list: “Hidden files and folders”, and under it “Protected operating system files” and “System folders and files at drive roots”.
Coming back to a folder: “The same file and scroll position” (on out of the box) and “The same rating and label filter” (off).
Companion files: “Show a file and its companions as one item”.
Changes made by other programs: “Show right away”; if you clear it, changes appear only after you press F5.

Learn more: “File area”, “Navigation”, “Companion files”.

View

“Default view”: Details, Tiles, Icons or Gallery.
Photo folders: “Use Gallery when photos in a folder exceed” a set percentage.

Learn more: “Views and sorting”, “Gallery”.

View / Sizes

Sizes for each view, in pixels:

Details: row height and icon size.
Tiles: tile width, icon size and label font size.
Icons: cell width, icon size, cell margin and label font size.
Gallery: cell width, image size, cell margin and label font size.

A preview next to the fields is drawn with these numbers, and Ctrl+wheel in the file area changes the same fields.

Learn more: “Sizes”.

View / Gallery

“Z loupe while the pointer is hidden” sets where the Z loupe lands in full screen if the mouse hasn't moved: “On the sharpest spot of the photo” or “On the camera's focus point”.
“Arrow keys when zoomed in full screen”: “Go through the photos, the place kept; Ctrl+arrows move it” (out of the box) or “Move the photo; Ctrl+arrows go through the photos”.

Learn more: “Full screen”.

Interface

Color scheme: “Same as Windows” (out of the box; follows the app mode in Windows), “Light” or “Dark”. It changes right away, without a restart. Windows and dialogs, menus, tooltips, code highlighting, Markdown and books in the Preview pane turn dark; .rtf, PDF and HTML pages without their own dark scheme stay on white paper.
Gallery background: “Light”, “Gray” or “Dark”; gray and dark have a brightness box from 0 to 255 next to them. Each scheme keeps its own choice: in the dark one, it's “Dark” out of the box.
Language: “Same as Windows” (Russian in a Russian Windows, English in any other), “Русский” or “English”. The language changes after a restart: when you close Settings, Wander offers to restart and reopens where it was. “Help” and F1 open the guide in the interface language.

Learn more: “Gallery”.

File operations

Confirmations: “Ask before moving to the Recycle Bin” and “Ask before moving”.
Name conflicts when copying and moving: “Skip identical files without asking”.
Checking copies: “From flash drives, memory cards, phones and cameras” (out of the box), “Always” or “Never”. The copy is read back from the disk and compared with the original, so copying takes longer by the time that read takes.
Drag and drop: “Open a folder when a dragged file hovers over it”.

Learn more: “Working with files”, “Copying and moving”, “Resolving conflicts”, “Reliable copying”.

Items from other apps (all at once or one by one, with search); Wander's main items; resetting the menu settings.

Learn more: “Context menu”.

File operations / Actions

Custom actions and built-in conversions: a table and a card for the selected action.

Learn more: “Custom actions”.

File operations / Programs

FFmpeg, LibreOffice and Pandoc: whether each program was found, “Browse…” and “Reset”.

Learn more: “Programs”.

File operations / Ratings

“Rating file for a photo without a companion”: .xmp or .pp3.
“Ask before creating a rating file”.

Learn more: “Ratings and labels”.

Cache and memory

Thumbnail cache on disk: “Keep thumbnails between launches”, the “Max size, MB” limit (256 out of the box) and “Clear cache”.
Memory: “For images, MB”, a shared ceiling for thumbnails and Preview pane frames; 0 means a sixteenth of the computer's memory.
Temporary copies: “Keep in the system Temp folder”.
Icon loading: “What's on screen first”.

Learn more: “Data and cache”.

Keyboard

The main keyboard shortcuts, with search by shortcut or by action; the list is read-only.

Learn more: “Keyboard shortcuts”.

Debug and reset

Session log: “Record keystrokes, clicks and selection” and “Write real file paths”.
Copying: “Copy with Windows’ own engine”, for looking into copying problems: Windows copies the files instead of Wander.
Phones and cameras: “Read through the Windows shell”, if a phone's or camera's folders are read with errors; it's slower and without the device's own thumbnails.
“Debug” menu: “Show in the main menu”.
Reset settings: “Reset all settings…”.

Learn more: “Troubleshooting”, “Phone and camera”.