QGIS comes with a standalone application called QGIS Browser. This is a useful companion tool to QGIS and helpful in managing GIS datasets. ArcGIS users may think of it as an application similar to ArcCatalog.
QGIS Browser is part of the standard install of QGIS.
QGIS Browser
in your start menu.QGIS.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/QGIS Browser.app
. You can create a symlink to this
app. Navigate to the Application folder, right-click the QGIS icon and select
Show Package Contents. Browse to . Right-click the QGIS Browser
icon and select
Make Alias. Drag the QGIS Browser alias
to the
Applications folder. Now you can access the QGIS Browser
like
any other application.qbrowser
. It is
located in the same directory as the qgis application.A convenient way to access the QGIS Browser is from within the main QGIS Desktop application itself. The browser panel is located at the bottom of the left-hand panel in QGIS. Click on the Browser tab to open the QGIS Browser. If you do not see the Browser tab, enable it by doing to (Windows and Mac) or (Linux).
Note
Adding a folder to your favorites list currently works only from the Browser panel in QGIS. This feature is not available in the standalone application.
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