

If it is not helpful to you, you can click the View tab and click the Folder Tree button to turn it off.

This is to make it quicker and easier for you to navigate through your folders. In file management mode with WinZip 21.5 or later, you will also see a two pane display with a Folder Tree display in the left pane. In the picture below you can see that there are 3 tabs open and the first one is pinned.


Then, if you have a folder you always want available in this pane, you can pin that tab and it will display each time you open WinZip. Just click the plus sign to open a new tab. Starting with WinZip 21.5, you can open additional tabs in the Files pane to work easily with more than one location or folder. You will want to become familiar with them as they will be useful in a variety of situations. Additional, more extensive file management features are available in the ribbon tabs. These features may be all you need to use at that moment, such as the Rename action, which can be used with one file or folder or multiple selections. The WinZip view changes to a 2 pane view, rather than the 3 pane one, additional information displays for any files that are in the current location, and manage items display in the Actions pane. These features become obvious after you have entered the file management mode. WinZip first included simple file management features with WinZip 19. Just click the arrow at the top of the Files pane. If you decide that you would like to edit, copy, or delete a file or set of files (and much more) while you are browsing to find certain files to zip, you do not need to exit WinZip. You can enter file management mode in WinZip at any time. A brief introduction can also be found in the File Management section of The Intuitive WinZip Interface. Please use this article to introduce yourself to WinZip file management and learn more about how it can be used. Most of these features are ones that do not involve zipping files.
