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Directory Report
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Offers good options for quickly dealing with duplicates
Once duplicates are found you can choose to select certain files based on criteria like when was it created, when was it last modified, size, folders they're in or if the folders they're in contain a particular string.
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Reasonable rules for finding both duplicate files and folders
The program can find duplicate files based on any combination of size, name, CRC. It can also compare files byte by byte. Also, it can compare folders (with or without subfolders) based on any combination of size, name, CRC as well as file count.
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Gives a clear overview of found duplicates
It shows duplicate items grouped with every second group highlighted.
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Platforms:
Windows
License:
Proprietary
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GUI/CLI
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xplorer²
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Comprehensive functionality
Full search, sync files & folders, show folder sizes, robust copy, native file viewer, tabs within panes, very configurable display, command shell, bookmarks, etc.
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Doesn't display UTF-8 characters correctly
Emojis and Japanese characters appear as question marks, for example.
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Ability to save state
xplorer² gives users the ability to save the state, so the program will open with the same state the next time it's used.
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Stagnating rate of development
Any improvements to the software are happening at a glacial pace which is making this software more and more outdated for a long time now. Only a few minor improvements a year. User suggestions for improvements are routinely rejected or explained away. As for suggesting new features -- you'll quickly abandon all hope. Only realistic reason to visit their support forums is to read Kilmatead's posts -- for anything else prepare to be disappointed. UPDATE (and slightly offtopic): Kilmatead seems to be no longer active on the forums, so the next best thing is xplorer2 blog which seems to often feature interesting technical topics.
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Free version available
There is a free version available, xplorer² Lite, for non-commercial use.
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Un-evolved
The interface is essentially unchanged since its Windows XP days, with very little customization possible. Organization of features is convoluted, with some simple ones, like individual icons to quickly switch views missing. The stagnant cluttered design can make even long-time users drop the program.
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Good all-purpose file manager
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Distracting prompts in the Lite version
A free version of the program is available, xplorer² lite. However it is very light on features, and will display a prompt if a feature is selected that isn't available in the Lite version. The full program is $29.95 for advanced and $49.95 for max power.
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Faster than most similar applications
It's hard to find a free or low cost alternative that is as quick, and stable, especially managing NTFS volumes on a remote NAS. It still freezes and chokes, just not as often as newer applications, like XYplorer, Free Commander, etc.
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250+ file attributes that can be added as columns to view more file attributes
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Execute DOS commands
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Flexible search function
Search based on numerous file attributes. Search in ranges. Search inside files. Save search parameters for future use.
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Browse Flat to view the contents of several subdirs as if they were stored in a single dir
Let's say you are located in a given subdir that has 5 subdirs. You can see the contents of all the files located in those subdirs as if they were stored in a single dir. Very useful when you want to locate files that you don't know exactly where they are located and searching is not an option.
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Scrap Area where you can drop files located in different sub directories to allow you to access them instantly
Let's say that today you are going to update a letter located in subdir X, continue developing a spreadsheet located in subdir Y, review a presentation located in subdir Z, review a project located in subdir W, etc.. You can drag and drop all these files to the Scrap Area and open and work with them, save them, open again, continue tomorrow and the files will be updated in their respective original locations. No need to navigate and navigate and navigate.
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Supports TotalCommander plugins
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Copy/Move many simultaneous tasks
Can display the size in bytes of every folder listed in the current branch of the tree.
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Can create "tabs" of the most used sub directories that you can access with a simple click
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Mass rename capability
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Connects to network drives and cloud storage easily
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Lifetime license available
Pay once, get all future updates. Standard version licenses are also available.
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Platforms:
Windows
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Per User or Per Machine
Price:
Free (Lite) / $29.95 (Pro) / $49.95 Ultimate
Portable:
Ultimate only
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Listary
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It's also a launcher
Once you find the file you need, you can launch it or use custom actions.
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Search as you type everywhere
You can start typing on the desktop or any folders and it'll just search for you.
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Supports other explorers
It supports not only Windows Explorer but also XYplorer, Directory Opus, Total Commander and all the other explorer alternatives.
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Platforms:
Windows
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Q-Dir (the Quad Explorer)
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Highly manageable multiple windows
Every window can be separately customized. You can choose between different views from 1 to 4 windows, and every window can have multiple tabs!
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Sometimes may have bugs
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You can view 4 windows simultaneously
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Needs modern UI design
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You can use tabs in every window
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No search
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Portable
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Does not work with Quicklook
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Free
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Does not use a lot of RAM
Q-dir with 4 windows and with 4 tabs in every window uses only 39mb of RAM on Win10x64.
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Fast and stable
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Very customizable
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Q-Dir allows you to save folder combinations as a favourite to open any time
Up to 64 folder combinations can be saved in a favorite, since each of the four windows is equipped with tabs (ie 4 x 16 tabs 4 x Tree View plus 4 x Address Bar).
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Directory Opus
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Customizable UI
Allows customizing toolbars and keyboard hotkeys. Has a full scripting interface that allows in-depth customization options.
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Expensive
Compared to the other options, Directory Opus is quite expensive. Prices are $35 for the Lite version and $64 for Pro (price changes based on the AUD to US exchange rate). Upgrading from light to pro costs about $30.
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Can be set to replace Windows Explorer
Unique Explorer Replacement mode provides a full replacement for Windows Explorer.
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Portability costs more
On top of an already expensive license, users must purchase a separate Export License to create a portable version.
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Batch-options
Allows batch renaming, viewing and editing file metadata.
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Can be intimidating to novice/inexperienced users
While the program is ULTRA-customizable, this can be a double-edged sword to anyone that is overwhelmed easily or not willing/able to learn the inner workings of DOpus.
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Allows color-coding and assigning star ratings to files and folders
This is done with Directory Opus' inbuilt label and its Status system.
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Only available for Windows
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FTP support
Supports SFTP (Secure FTP via SSH, port 22) Also supports FTP via SSL (port 990) and FTP via with TLS. Caution: FTP is a paid additive to the product although in relative terms it's not too expensive (around $12).
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Restrictive license
Product is licensed on a "per-machine basis" requiring purchasing multiple expensive licenses to cover a single user with multiple machines. However, if you have time and luck, you can write to the DO sales department and they can produce another license for you to use personally on another machine you own.
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Supports different archive formats
Supports archive formats like Zip, 7Zip and RAR.
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Limited to only two views
You are only able to have two concurrent views at a time. It does help, that you are able to have both the metadata-pane and the viewer-pane open whilst using Dopus in dual-view mode.
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Tools for synchronizing files and finding duplicates
Can easily synchronize files and helps the user in finding and deleting duplicates.
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Limited support for Touch / Tablet mode
Your file manager + Start Menu are the main way to launch programs/documents... When using Touch Mode, the Surface running Opus would be far more usable if some attention was paid to this use case.
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Customizable status bar
Directory Opus allows users to customize the status bar to display helpful information based on several different factors, including file counts, types, disk space, and others. The status bar can also be customized separately for dual displays.
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Complicated if one pursues mastery on the most advanced features
Takes a long time to become efficient with it. Mastering all the features can be rather exhausting.
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Available for different architectures
Available in both 32 and 64 bit versions.
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No good support for right-sided tree
The only way to get a right sided tree is to display both panes in horizontal layout and then switch the first (upper) tree off. Which leaves you with 2 horizontal panes and one tree on the right. There is no other way (neither with 2 vertical nor with 1 pane) to have a tree on the right side. And since this layout setting is rather the step-child of the developers, it also is a bit buggy and not of top priority as far as fixing any issues with it.
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Tabs
Directory Opus has tabs for each view, which are customizable in size, appearance, functionality, etc.
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Large file sizes
The installer weighs in at 50MB and the app directory is over 95MB.
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Customized filters
Directory Opus allows users to create custom filters that can be saved and recalled as needed.
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No native/good support for restoring multiple search paths for the find files tool
Although all other options of the find files tool are very good, there simply is no easy way of regularly using the same multiple search paths. For using only one search path, one can simply navigate to that path and activate the automatic path-use-button in the tool or choose one path from the previous paths drop-down, but that only works for one path. It can get cumbersome if one wants to restore multiple search paths at once. One must basically write his own script to do that. This is surprisingly annoying that such a basic and needed functionality is not natively supported (built-in) by such a generally powerful program.
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Extended scripting API
The scripting capabilities of DirectoryOpus extend from version to version. You can do a whole lot of unheard stuff with that. Custom columns, custom commands, handling events etc. just to name a few things. It even has a GUI editor to allow for custom interfaces for your file management and scripting tasks. Even though mastering it is not easy in the beginning, it's worth it in the long run.
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Erroneous Con
Con has been deleted, as it stated untruthful information.
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Very powerful and easy to use batch rename dialog/feature
From powerful RegEx renaming to batch macro renaming, Directory Opus can compete with any third party renaming tool.
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Integrates seamlessly as a launcher for other programs
You can launch via a toolbar button or user definable custom context menu items.
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Easy to sort photos
Image marking adds the images you select to a different file, making it easy to sort through a large number of them.
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Customizable and downloadable themes
The Directory Opus community has created everything from dark themes to themes emulating other applications.
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Standard and customized layouts/styles
Directory Opus includes 8 standard layouts, including Commander, Dual Horizontal, Dual Vertical, Explorer, Filmstrip, Images, Metadata and Single. In addition, users can create and save their own layouts to suit specific needs and file processes.
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Backup and restore configuration
Directory Opus includes a comprehensive configuration backup and restore feature. Users can backup their customized configuration at any time and restore a previous configuration as needed.
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Powerful image viewer
Directory Opus includes a powerful independent image viewer with configurable toolbar, menus and hotkeys.
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Manual sorting
Directory Opus allows users to sort files as they want in manual sorting mode.
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Single or dual independent trees
Directory Opus allows the user to use a single tree or dual independent trees with the dual file display.
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Relative size and date graphs
Directory Opus has an option to include relative size and date graphs. These can be displayed independently, in their own columns, or nested behind the size and date columns respectively. They can also be toggled on and off with a simple button as needed.
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Double-click on desktop to open a new file browser window
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File Status Symbols
Directory Opus offers an extension of standard color labeling in the form of status graphics that can be shown as an additional column in the file display. Standard graphics include "Checked" and "Flagged." Users can also create and use customized status labels.
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Supports high-DPI monitors
Directory Opus supports both 4K and 5K monitors.
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Integrated image conversion
Directory Opus includes integrated image conversion functionality, allowing users to convert images to different formats, rotate and flip images, and resize images. Functionality can be used on a single image or large batch of images.
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Extensive column availability
Directory Opus includes over 150 standard columns in various groups, ranging from "Name and Path" to "Metadata." In addition, users can create custom columns using a script.
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Stable & reliable when dealing with huge (100k+) file sets
This applies to both local and network drives.
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Vertical folder tabs
Directory Opus users can use vertical tabs instead of horizontal tabs, if desired.
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Works with Everything
Directory Opus works with the Everything search program. A custom-built script allows users to conduct searches and view results within the Directory Opus file display.
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Powerful, expandable viewer
The viewer in Directory Opus supports a huge array of file extensions (more can be added as plugins). It is even able to show webpages in the viewer, when you select .url or .html files.
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Good customer support
The customer support is very good.
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Works with Listary
Directory Opus has native support for Listary, allowing users to move even more quickly between directories and perform searches.
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Integrated dialog editor
Lets you write scripts that have their own user interface with buttons, lists, checkboxes, text fields, etc.
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Searchable preferences
Directory Opus offers thousands of user preferences. To help users find the preference they want, Directory Opus offers a search function within the Preferences dialog that identifies and highlights specific preferences associated with the user's search term.
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Supports TeraCopy
Directory Opus supports TeraCopy.
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Flickr support
Directory Opus is able to sync your photos with Flickr. You can customize which file collections to sync, and the save location for each file collection
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WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux Support)
Script functions can be written in WSL Script, DOS Batch Mode, VBScript, JScript or directly calling Opus or External applications. /mnt/c paths understood by path fields. WSL mode in Find As You Type (FAYT). Copy path names in WSL format or Windows format.
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It prevents you from making gross deletion mistakes
Since it makes your folder structure rather transparent and allows to easy checks through dual tabbed layout, it helps you to not delete files wrongly.
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World's best customer support
More often than not, developers reply within minutes (even seconds) on their great forum. Never seen anything like it before.
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Audio preview
Ways for sound designers to play and stop audio files for fast previewing.
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Gets updated often
Directory Opus gets updates all the time -- fixes, significant improvements and often new features are released multiple times a month. Improvement and feature requests by users are taken in consideration and you can often find your bug report resolved or improvement request fulfilled in one of the beta versions that follow soon.
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Platforms:
Windows
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Per-Machine (plus personal laptop)
Portable:
No
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Both
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Double Commander
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Multi-platform (Linux, Windows, MacOS X)
You can use same tool in all desktop OS environments.
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Apparently only one developer
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Source code is available (true free software)
If the developer loses interest there is at least the possibility that someone else will pick up the torch.
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Freeze after mouse double-click on directory list item
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Configurable
Lots of options allow you to configure DC the way it suits you best: Tools, Fonts, Colors, Hotkeys, Mouse, Fileviews, Plugins, Layout, Toolbars, Tabs, Icons etc.
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Much slower on Linux and Mac than on Windows
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Directory Hotlist
Save shortcuts to folders. Organize them in a treeview with submenus. Define a name and sorting for each entry.
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Source code written in Pascal language
But this does not affect users negatively. It's just programmers problem.
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Powerful tcmd-like search tool (alt+F7)
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Not developed anymore for Mac
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tcmd-like multi-rename tool (CTRL+M)
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Can't edit files on remote FTP servers
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DC uses TCmd plugin API
so you can use documentation from Total Commander for writing plugins. WCX (packer), WDX (content), WFX (file system), WLX (lister).
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Closely follows TotalCommander UX
For instance, the 'Settings | Layout' pane is quasi-identical to TCs.
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Very sophisticated
Although it is lightweight and simple to use, it can do very sophisticated tasks, like copying files from directories which have a certain extension or file size or have a certain text pattern in them. Also, it's very customizable and stable.
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It's that good, you can replace tcmd on windows too
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Source code written in (Object) PASCAL
It's all a matter of perspective. I'm not for an argument about IDE's, frameworks etc, but to me that's a big plus. I think it should be a tie, it's either a pro or a con or should that be neither a pro nor a con. It just depends on context.
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD
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GPL-2.0-only
Technology:
Free Pascal
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GUI
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One Commander
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Free
Free for non commercial use.
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Folders cannot be sorted by size
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Simple and fast
Fast search and filter.
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Cannot access Android device connected by USB
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Miller columns
Like Finder from macOS.
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Cannot access Android device by FTP
And can never will as this is clarified by developer that this feature will never be added.
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Multi tab support
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It doesn't have UNDO function
Very important. When you work with valuable data files, this function can't be ommited.
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Themes
Light, dark and customizable themes/colours.
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Navigating folders by Ctrl+Tab has considerable delay
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Default file manager setup
Can make it the default file manager such that windows explorer stays out of the way for most of the work.
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Browsing Recycle Bin is very slow
Navigating away from Recycle Bin tab and coming back to it reload the Recycle Bin which is very slow as mentioned. Program has an option to open recycle bin in Windows File Explorer, which suggests that developer is aware that opening Recycle Bin is problematic.
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File previews
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Confusing
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File / folder filters
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Context menu only based on icons
No longer with Onecommander 3.6.43
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Folder views can be saved and applied
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Windows 10 version 17763.0 or higher
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Copernic Desktop Search
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No result ranking
Despite allegedly being on the cusp of offering a ranking of the search result (since v.4.0), as of 7.0 this fundamental feature is still lacking.
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Even includes Outlook .PST files
Reliably indexes and searches huge Outlook message stores (10GB or more). You can then filter by to/from, folder, content string, etc.
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Annual subscription
Since the launch of its 7.0 version, you now have to buy an annual subscription to use the software.
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Searches content, not just names
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WinDirStat
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Slow
There are faster programs.
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Free / Open Source
GNU Public License (GPLv2).
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Classic UI
interface are old and cluttered
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Color codes by file type
You can sort the list in the extension column (file type) globally or from parent folder selected. This is very helpful in case there are files of a specific type that you may not be aware of that's taking up too much space. Also, the colors correspond to the visual section.
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Treemaps can be confusing to some
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Lightweight
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PacMan Progress Bars
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Direttore File Manager
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Column View Superior to Macintosh Finder
Direttore got it right. The other alternatives with a column view option ("miller columns") are unwieldy and ascetically offensive.
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Totally Themable
I can change colors, button,scrollbars. I also changed the icons for folders and some file-types. Info on Direttore webpage.
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Color labels
Ntfs drives only, but still very convenient.
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Works on all operating systems
Windows, Mac, and Linux are supported.
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No (text) file viewer
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Simple to use
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No explicit bookmark support for directories
It though remembers the visited directories and allows to search in this list in most-recently used order and by name.
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Makes finding commands *by name* easy
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Mainly for key-board-orientated users
The interface is most naturally navigated by arrows and keystrokes. The target market is software developers.
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Slick
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Has no menu bar
Hence it is not well suited for visually orientated users which find or remember commands by using a mouse and a menu. Even the fman's hero Sublime Text uses a menu bar.
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Requires email address to download
Doesn't say what it will do with this data. It is in contrast to the new laws in Europe where only necessary information is allowed to be collected. A download should not require an email address.
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Still quite buggy
So, for example, sorting only is remembered if triggered by command and not be clicking the table column header using the mouse.
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Settings can't be found by the GUI
You need to know which files to edit.
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Default dark theme
No choice between dull-dark or fresh-light.
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No portable bundle available
On Windows only a net-installer is available.
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Voidtools Everything
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Small and portable
Full installation is not necessary, you can run as portable.
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Quick searching and minimal resource usage
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Can filter results by type
You can specify whether you are searching for a file, folder, video, photo, etc.
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Quick shortcuts possible
Easily open a new tab of everything OR AND bring your already open window to the foreground. F.E. ALT+L can be used to easily bring the search indexer in keyreach.
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Ability to search using REGEX
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Mythicsoft Agent Ransack
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Saves disk space by not indexing files
No silly indexing of your file system required.
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No FTP
It's non integrated an ftp client to connect to remote server
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Fast search for text or regex in files
The app is multi threaded to search through your files.
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Potentially lower search speed due to not indexing files
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Best free app for non indexed searches of text and MS Office files
Top free tool for non-indexed searches for files and contents. Boolean and regex options. Searches MS Office files using Ifilters. The paid for version, Filelocator Pro, offers many enhancements eg combined boolean and regex searches, multiple search tabs, ability to toggle back to previous search results, and has inbuilt index searching as an option.
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Will search across attached drives
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Search inside SAS file
The app search inside every type of file created by SAS, even the catalog and the tables.
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Far Manager
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Keyboard-oriented
Far Manager's interface encourages keyboard operation - all actions are easily accessible with keyboard shortcuts, you can quickly record macros for any repeatable action, there are no screen redraws if it is not necessary and that makes everything faster.
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Blocking operations
Operations such as copy, move, delete, etc are blocking, and you have to wait for them to complete before you can continue. Though you can cancel the operation with the escape key.
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Open source
Released under BSD license.
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Only for Windows
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Two-panel interface
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Always uses monospace font
Which makes long file names look extremely wide
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Many plugins
There are may of them, and you can write them in any languages, including Python.
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Does not support scrolling with mouse
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Editor with syntax highlighting
Every Far feature is also true for its editor. You can setup an external editor if you like, but the included editor works really well and features syntax highlighting.
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Text-based interface
Far Manager does not use a GUI like most windows applications nowadays. This may prove difficult to use for people who are not familiar with text-based user interfaces.
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Easily recorded macros
Hit "Ctrl-." and start recording your boring sequence. Hit "Ctrl-." again to assign it a key. You can use Lua if you need more advanced macros.
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Folder shortcuts not available in Alt+F1/F2 menus
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Numeric sorting option
E.g. readme-9.txt before readme-10.txt
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Extremely fast
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Offline context help
Just press F1 when you need it. No internet connection or browser is required.
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Themeable
Fully themeable, allowing you to change the colors of every part of the interface.
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Scrippting support via LUA
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Platforms:
Windows
32 or 64 bit:
Both
Integrated Shell:
Yes
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TeraCopy
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4
Cons
1
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Sometimes clashes with 7 zip
From my experience, TeraCopy does not do well in conjunction with 7zips. It seems to error on some systems when you do a drag-and-drop extract.
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Faster file deletion
It deletes files much much faster than built in Windows file manager.
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Can check files for copy errors
TeraCopy can automatically check/verify the copied files for errors, by calculating their CRC or other checksum/hash value.
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Seamless shell integration
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Skips badly copied files
TeraCopy skips badly copied files during the copying process, and then displays them at the end of the transfer "Verify" with checksum/hash, so you can see which files to re-copy. See also, OpenHashTab for Windows and DeadHash for Windows, Linux, Android.
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac
License:
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Total Commander
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25
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Pros
19
Cons
5
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Plugins
Supports plugins for compression, file system, and file types.
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Cannot display background colors for file names
While it can display different colors (even based on filters) for the text color of those file names, but not for the background color.
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Can replace a lot of utility tools
There are a lot of built-in utility tools and plug-ins. There's multi-file renamer, verify file checksum to ensure download content integrity, sync directory tool, etc.
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Very slow on loading network shares
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Life-time license
Once purchased you can use it as long as you like and never have to pay again.
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Proprietary
Total Commander offers a free 30-day trial, after which the cost of the program is $44.
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Layout increases productivity
The dual-pane layout makes normal file operations (like move & copy) easy.
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Classic Interface
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Useful multiple advanced options
Show hidden files, show differences between directories, FTP connections, coding and decoding (MIME, l).
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Need to spend a lot of time for custom configuration
Need to spend a lot of time for custom configuration, many features of the steps are very cumbersome to reduce operating speed.
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Very customizable
Total Commander is extremely flexible, with plenty of customizable options such as changing the color scheme, customizing menus, and editing shortcuts.
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Works even when Windows is very unstable
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Productive
Even if you have not learned the keys from DOS NortonCommander, learning them now will make you more productive when dealing with files.
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Powerful file search
The file search has many features, like using regular expressions to find the file names or even inside the content of the files. It can filter by file size, date and others, or even find duplicate files.
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Compare files and show differences
Can compare and show text file differences (diff) line-by-line, even character-by-character. Very useful for programmers. Can compare binary files, telling if files have the same content or not.
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Batch-rename files and folders
Sometimes you want to rename a bunch of files for some reason. Eg: file1-useless info blah blah.mp8 file2-useless info blah blah.mp8 file3-useless info blah blah.mp8 file4-useless info blah blah.mp8 file5-useless info blah blah.mp8 At once you can remove the "-useless info blah blah" in all file names. Or you could change the "file" to "my_super_file" to all at once. The possibilities are endless.
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Saves time
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Cloud plugin
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Customizable tabs
Allows renaming tabs and setting maximum tab text length, which is very convenient. You can also lock tabs in two modes: a) change dir not allowed and b) change dir allowed (but it would return to the original path once you browse another tab). It doesn't allow assigning different colors to each tab, though.
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On copy/move it can both avoid overwrite the destination file AND losing the copied file at the same time
Sometimes you need to copy/move a bunch of files to a folder that already has files. During the copy when Total Commander encounter files in the destination folder that has the same name of the copied files, it allows you to choose auto-rename the copied files or the destination files. It's beautiful.
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Convenient
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Free
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Easy for language translation
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Forget about the mouse
The total commander is convenient to use both with the mouse and exclusively using the keyboard. But using only the keyboard gives it a big increase in the speed of work because you do not aim at your mouse. You need some time to get used to it, but it's really worth it.
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Android
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WizTree
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6
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Pros
4
Cons
1
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Exceptionally fast for NTFS drives
Because it reads the master file table (MFT) directly from NTFS file system.
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Intended for NTFS only
It'll work with any other file system but with the same speed as any generic space analyzer.
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Free
There is no limitation to using it.
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Multiple view such as tree view, tree map, extension view, file view
Unlike other similar apps, which usually only offer single view, this app offers multiple views.
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Handles "hard linked" files correctly - doesn't count them more than once
WizTree is faster and much more accurate than all the others as it properly handles hard linked files (doesn't count them more than once) so the total allocated size reported by WizTree will actually match the space used on the drive as reported by Windows.
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Platforms:
Windows
Interface:
GUI
Treemap:
Yes
Path exclusion:
Yes
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Process Hacker
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11
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Pros
10
Cons
1
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See programs with active network connections
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It might be a little intimidating for some users
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Real-time information on disk access
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10x more detail and information about usage of PC resources and processes
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Can be set as your default task manager
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Detailed overview of system activity with highlighting
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Can create, edit and control services
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Can track which processes are using a file
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Open source
You can find the code here.
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View detailed stack traces with kernel-mode
Supports WOW64 and .NET.
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Graphs and statistics to quickly track down resource hogs and runaway processes
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ExplorerMax
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9
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Pros
6
Cons
2
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Fast search and organized results
When you search for anything, you can get what you want soon. And your target files are grouped into different categories.
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Need more functions
So far, they have released many updates and more surprises are needed.
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Tabs and bookmarks
Like browsing via Chrome, I can browse my files with tabbing window and collect my favorites. Easy and simple.
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Resources Usage
The nice UI comes under the expenses of resources. It can severely slow your PC
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Dark and light mode
I've never seen a file manager can match with windows so great like ExplorerMax., especilaly the dark mode.
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Stylish design
Everything here is organized and fancy.
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Timeline
This fuction can help you track the file history and bulk buttons enables you to clear them selectively.
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Adaptive UI
It alters the default Explore a little. But yet very Functional. It also comes with other themes. Dark theme included
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5.95
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FreeCommander
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17
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Pros
11
Cons
5
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2 Pane Layout
Makes normal file operations (like move & copy) easy.
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It's easy to delete important stuff by accident
When you want to delete something, it will often highlight both a file and its folder. The whole folder is then removed if you don't de-select the folder manually.
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Quick Navigation
Commonly used folders can be added and accessed using the favorites list -- in addition, physical and network drives can be switched to with a single click.
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Only the 32-bit version is free
You have to make a donation to be able to download the 64-bit version.
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Very powerful Multirename tool
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Cluttered and dated UI
The user interface has an outdated look, with a lot of button and menu options that can be overwhelming.
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Has a portable version
Because it's portable, you can easily move the folder with all your files to other devices.
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Unable to replace default file explorer
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Powerful search feature
FreeCommander provides a search functionality that allows you to filter out results.
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Buggy
Good facilities overall, but there's a bug that makes menus freeze and get stuck on the page.
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Very powerful set of file copying options
FreeCommander has a very powerful set of file copying options.
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Very usable and reliable Sync tool
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Shows folder file size
In Details mode you can turn on Folder Data file size.
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Keyboard shortcuts
Has a good set of keyboard shortcuts enabled by default
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Interface highly customizable, native Dark Mode, stable, very accessible primary functionality, very frequent updates
Simple 1-click buttons to toggle views, enable or disable visual filter, etc. Very simple instant filtering. The folder syncing is as good as "GoodSync".
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Excellent file manager with lots of hotkeys
Also file search, filter and multi file rename functionalities.
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Platforms:
Windows
License:
Freeware
Portable:
Yes
32 or 64 bit:
Both
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