# Places

Komodo has a file manager called Places, which can be opened in the left sidebar. It provides a customized view of your file system (local or remote) and file management operations such as:

- opening a file for editing
- adding, removing, and copying files or folders
- drag/drop movement
- recursive search

In Komodo IDE, this sidebar also shows the SCC status of the files, if they are under source code control.

## Projects & Places

Below the Places pane is the collapsible Projects pane. Switching projects in this pane will change the base directory of the Places view.

## Views

Places can be configured to show or hide certain files. The drop-down menu in the Places toolbar provides options to switch between:

- Default View: filters commonly hidden file types.
- Current Project View: the view configured under Directory Import in the current project's settings.
- View All: all files.
- Custom Views: your own configurations, by name.

The Manage Views option in the Places menu opens a dialog that lets you choose which files should be shown or hidden, and to save these preferences in a named View.

To specify which file types to include or exclude, use glob syntax patterns separated by semi-colons (e.g. "*.html;*.xml").