The quick bar provides fast navigation, File Search, and commands from one shared control.
The quick bar has multiple modes:
- Smart navigation with Ctrl + K
- File Search with /
- Command mode with Ctrl + P
Jump to Any Directory with Smart Navigation
- Press Ctrl + K to open smart navigation.
- Type part of a directory name.
- Sambee lists matches across the current connection.
- Choose a match to open that directory.
Recent Directory History
Recent directories appear before cache-based directory matches, including when the search box is empty. Choose a recent directory to switch to its connection and open the saved location. A directory that is both recent and present in the active connection’s cache is shown once in Recent directories.
To remove only the selected item from Recent directories, press Shift + Delete. This removes history metadata; it never deletes the underlying directory or its contents.
Sambee records a directory after it opens successfully. History is private to your account. You can clear your directory history from Settings > File Browser > Directory Navigation.
Find Files with File Search
- Press / when the file browser has keyboard focus.
- Type part of a filename.
- Review the separate Recent files and Current directory groups.
- Select a file and press Enter to open it.
File Search doesn’t build a global file index. It searches the files currently loaded in the active directory and your per-user recent-file history. A file that appears in both places is shown once in Recent files.
Use modifiers with Enter or a result click to choose how to open the selected file:
- Ctrl opens it in the associated native application.
- Shift opens the browser viewer picker.
- Ctrl + Alt opens the native application picker.
To remove only a selected item from Recent files, press Shift + Delete. This removes history metadata; it never deletes the underlying file.
Recent files are recorded when you attempt to open a regular file. History is private to your account and follows the configured retention and exclusion policy. The system verifies remote SMB targets and local Companion targets as regular files before keeping a history record.
The File Search settings show whether Sambee is using the built-in defaults or an administrator’s saved system override. Administrators can reset an override to the built-in defaults. Lowering retention removes the oldest records immediately, and setting retention to zero clears history and prevents new records. Image, temporary, backup, and configured extension exclusions apply before a record is stored.
If a recent remote file no longer exists, Sambee removes its stale history entry after confirming that state. For local drives, Companion distinguishes a missing or no-longer-regular file from an unavailable drive; confirmed stale targets are removed, while unavailable, unpaired, or temporarily failing local drives keep their history for a later retry.
You can clear your own history from Settings > File Browser > File Search. Administrators can set retention, per-group result limits, and exclusion rules in Settings > File Search. Add each extension exclusion as one literal extension; Sambee normalizes it, such as TMP to .tmp, and lets you remove it from the exclusion list.
Quick Bar Shortcut Hints
Choose when shortcut hints appear in Settings > File Browser > Shortcut hints:
- Auto shows hints on larger layouts and after you use a keyboard in the current compact-layout session.
- Always shows hints in every layout.
- Never hides the shortcut labels while keeping Quick Bar status information visible.
Locate and Run Any Command
- Press Ctrl + P to open command mode.
- Type part of a command name.
- Choose the command to run.