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Midnight Commander
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Intuitive interface
Midnight commander uses the full screen of the terminal in a very efficient way. It displays two panels for files horizontally. On the bottom it has the most useful commands with their corresponding key attached. All of this makes for a very intuitive interface both for beginners and experienced users.
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File viewer: searching can be quite cumbersome
Especially searching next or previous.
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Can be run in the terminal
Being a terminal application means that it's suited for people who spend most of their time on the terminal because they don't have to switch windows in order to open their file manager. It also means that they can use it both locally and remotely.
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No directory bookmarks
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Easy to use
Midnight commander is easy and intuitive to use. The most common commands are displayed in the bottom (move, copy, paste, delete, edit, view, make directory). Files can be selected with the arrow keys which move the cursor through them. The Enter key goes down in a directory. To move the focus between two panels the tab key is used.
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No easy way to change colors matching certain files
There probably is a possibility, but it is not easy.
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Lightweight
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Quirky and hard to remember shortcuts
E.g. when trying to take the current directory's path to the command line.
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Stable
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Lacks drag and drop feature
With midnight commander you cannot drag and drop files to move them around. Instead, you have to do the necessary actions in order to move files around (cut and paste or copy and delete).
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Often available in default repository
and hence easy to install by usually package manager.
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Can only be run in the terminal
MC lacks a standalone GUI option.
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Lynx-like motion
Cursor+left to go to parent directory, cursor+right to go into child directory.
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Well-presented
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Windows, Mac, Linux
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nnn
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Superfast
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CLI, default interface very simplified (supports mouse)
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Rich set of plugins
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Extremely lightweight (120 kb)
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Unique navigate-as-you-type mode
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Awesome new features being added in every release
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Minimal configuration with sane defaults
Default options and navigation is simple to grasp.
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Has a great wiki
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Sessions
Save and resume sessions.
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Supports cd-on-quit
Allows for quick switching between nnn and the terminal.
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Previews
The file manager has recently added support for preview hovered files using various methods.
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Integrates with the desktop environment and opens files in the default applications
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Reasonably well-documented
However, it requires some prior knowledge of inner workings of Linux and there are no tutorials (yet). NNN author is making up for this by actively responding to GitHub issues.
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Customizable icons and colors
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Linux, macOS, Termux, Raspberry Pi
License:
BSD-2-Clause
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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
License:
GPL-2.0-only
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Free Pascal
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fman
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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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Windows, Mac, Linux
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Vifm
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Allows you to stay in the terminal
Since it runs in a terminal, it may live within ssh sessions, tmux/screen sessions, etc.
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Useless for non-vi users
Even to quit one has to use ":q".
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Nice Themes for a terminal app
Vifm has a lot of good themes that you can easily grab from the main site and use with the :colorscheme command.
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Very high learning curve for newbies
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Great integration with vim
The vifm.vim plugin allows you to use vifm as a powerful filepicker for vim.
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Can only be used in terminal
Vifm lacks a standalone GUI option.
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Configurable
You can easily configure almost all aspects of vifm by just editing the dotfile which is pretty easy is you are comfortable with configuring apps.
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Default key mappings will be comfortable to vim users
Vifm uses vim-esque key mappings. Makes for extremely efficient and---perhaps more importantly---intuitive interactions. The key mappings can be changed.
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Dual pane
The dual pane nature of vifm makes copy paste and moving files from one folder to another super easy.
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krusader
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Versatile
Has everything you might wish for and more.
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Root mode
Dangerous but sometimes useful.
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Multiple tabs
Tabs with other listings, and options to move the tab to the other side.
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Advanced renamer
Via package krename.
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Directory compare
Compare 2 directories on content or file/date and sync them.
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Archive support
Browse archives as folders.
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Krusader
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KDE dependencies
If you don't use KDE, you'll be forced to install quite a large amount of KDE libraries.
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Great two-pane interface
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New releases are infrequent
It can be seen in https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=krusader.git that maintenance work is done in a continous fashion, but no new releases are provided. Even though it is perhaps the more feature-rich file manager.
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Folder synchronization
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Interface can be overwhelming
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Handles most archives. There is little difference in behaviour between an archive file and a regular folder.
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Virtual file systems
Search results as example saved into virtual folder and can be accessed later. All file operations may be performed on items in search results as if they were files in single folder.
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All common operations can be done with keyboard efficiently
In addition, shortcuts can be easily renamed. Unlike Dolphin and many others.
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SFTP support
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Many operations like copying and moving files can be queued
Long running operations can be queued. There is no point in doing them in a parallel way, as speed decreases dramatically.
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Can view and edit many files
Even editing a file inside a .zip file. Has hexadecimal viewer embedded for binary files.
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Filename association and instant console availability
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Multi-rename tool
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Searching capabilities and copying/deleting/moving in background
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Custom commands can be added to the menu easily
And they can use the current folder, the selected files....
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XYplorer
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Extremely configurable
There are literally hundreds of ways you can customize this software. All the settings can be contained in a single configuration file, so you can easily create "profiles" as well.
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Not user frendly
You will spend more time managing the manager than getting work done, and even for basic customization you will suffer a great deal.
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Lifetime license available
XYplorer probably has the best "bang for the buck". It surely has its cons but considering what one gets for a "small" one-time investment, probably no other comparable feature rich product offers a better license. The lifetime license ($63.95) includes all future updates for free, lets you install on any number of computers, and includes the portable version.
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Single-threaded
Doesn't do internal multitasking so often you sit there waiting and waiting and waiting for the window to come back.
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Frequent and regular updates
Bugfixes and new features are released frequently. Additionally, XYplorer can automatically check for updates and has convenient download and update functionality built-in.
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May be unresponsive at times
When browsing large number of files and using advanced features like preview, the program may become unresponsive. However, it is fair to say that given enough search and preview options and considering file security, network file share performance, malware or anti-malware activity, it is reasonable to expect situations where long delays could occur with any file manager.
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Very reliable
It's small and fast, has lots of features, and helps you get your work done faster.
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No FTP support
XY doesn't support FTP, SSH, FTPS, etc.
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Numerous filtering, sorting, and highlighting methods for files
Create rules and configurations to quickly identify and locate specific types of file and display them in various ways.
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No working high-dpi support
XYplorer will not properly scale when working in a mixed configuration consisting of both Full-HD and high-dpi screens.
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Dual pane
Manage files with two panes which can be arranged horizontally or vertically - and each can have multiple tabs to boot. You can also easily save and reload open tabs as tab sets.
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No themes
You can customize toolbars, but there are no themes available.
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Scriptable
Uses a very flexible scripting language that you can do many things with it. After learning it, one can get many other tools replaced in favor of a single centralized, extremely customize-able command center, plus writing one own's personal routines to fully perform finely-tuned file management. However, doing basic things like stringing together common renaming and moving tasks takes very little knowledge. Scripting is easy for beginners, is supported by the developer and the community, yet can be incredibly deep and powerful.
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Status bar not customizable
Users cannot customize the status bar.
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Custom toolbar buttons
With its powerful scripting ability and the easily accessible menu identifiers, creating customized commands and toolbar buttons provides yet even further levels of usability specific to your needs.
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No plugin support
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Logs plenty of actions for undo/redo
Up to 256 actions are logged and can be looked up and undone later in case of a mistake. Undo/Redo works even across sessions (i.e. after closing and restarting the app).
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32-Bit
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Custom columns
Create custom columns to display all kinds of info snippets or even interactive links and buttons.
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No support for Windows libraries
You can't access your libraries through this software.
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The catalog: an all-purpose area that can be customized for all of your needs
An all-purpose area that you can customize for all your needs. It can be a list of favorite directories, run scripts, replace the directory tree, be a program launch pad, and so much more.
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Separate tree for each panel is missing
The possibility of having a separate tree for each of the 2 panels is lacking.
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Easy to use
XYPlorer, in spite of its complexity and completeness, is very easy to use. Features are obvious. And where they're not obvious they can be discovered easily. An example is the ease of "Jump to Setting" which helps you effortlessly find which of many settings you're looking for.
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Poor touchscreen support
While an option exists to scale up icon sizes to improve touchscreen support, the program does not pan and scroll intuitively.
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Extensive metadata
Mark files with colored labels, tags, comments, as well as multiple columns with user-defined metadata for everything from ratings, urls, and whatnot.
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Cannot display files as grouped
Especially in thumbs view it would at times be nice to be able to group the files in the display. Sometimes it might also be nice in others views as well. XY is only able to sort the files in the display but not able to group, though it does support arbitrary sort order and advanced link types.
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Customizable keyboard shortcuts
XYplorer is great for heavy keyboard users. Its many keyboard shortcuts are also fully configurable. Additionally, XYplorer offers multiple ways to navigate to file system using only a handful of keys. That said, one can do things with a mouse like press an icon in a custom column to run a script on the corresponding file or folder. Mousers are happy too.
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The free version has been discontinued
Although it has just been discontinued as of 10th January 2017, it is still available for download at here.
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Portable file extensions
Associate file types with other portable applications on your USB stick.
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Developer is active in the forum as well
While other competitors only offer a "community" forum where the developers are absent, in XY's forum the developer answers questions personally, quickly, and consistenly.
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Quick audio preview
Can listen to audio files very easily with a single mouse click on the file icon. This includes FLAC support.
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Thumbnail viewing for images is both fast and customizable
If you're a photographer, wannabe photographer, or you just take a lot of photos, XYplorer is a great file manager for working with images. Combined with the Mouse Down Blow Up (MDBU) feature, previewing photos is very easy.
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Portable
It doesn't require you to install it on your computer, allowing you to run it directly from a disk or from an USB flashdrive.
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Easy to organize lots of files at once
Known as Branch View in XYPlorer. Select a folder or multiple folders and select Branch View to get a flat file view of the selected folder/s with files only, folders only or both. Alternatively, select Branch View to get a flat view of the current folder. Results can then be filtered, sorted, organised, moved, copied, renamed etc accordingly. Extremely useful if you have a lot of files to organise.
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Folder sizes shown
Folder sizes and amount of files within the folders can be shown. This is very useful when trying to work out where the HDD space has gone.
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Search and virtual folders
Its search ability and functions combined with a multitude of file actions and the ease of creating virtual folders is a major time saver.
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Custom file and folder icons
Add a custom icon to a set of files or folders based on file type, location, name (or part of name) for example: all files named XYplorer to have 'icon x' or all folders that contain the word XYplorer in the name to have 'icon y', size, date, name length, path etc. You can customize an infinite number of icons for an infinite number of files and/folders or even just a single one based on what ever combination you want. No extra files are created like with other programs that place an icon in each directory. The customized icons are stored within the "Icons" folder of the XYPlorer directory while the list of customized file/folder patterns as well as which particular icon to point to are stored within XYplorer .ini file. It's set and forget as all file/folder icon associations are applied globally. Meaning that all new files or folders that match your predefined pattern or instruction if you like will automatically be displayed with your chosen icon. Customized icons are also very very flexible. It's so easy to add, remove, change and fine tune your settings to your liking. To turn the customized icons on or off is simply a matter of pressing the handy toggle button. Further flexibility comes with the ability to turn on or off individual custom icons with a simple tick box. It is a bit of a learning curve to get the pattern (instruction to select certain files/folders to be associated with a particular icon) just right. But as results are immediately visible, it makes it easy to adjust accordingly to exactly what you want. There are some examples of these patterns included within the "Customize File Icons" UI or settings box to get you started by selecting the "I" button. A more extensive list is available in the XYPlorer help file. Once you get the hang of it though, the same patterns can be applied to other customizations in XYPlorer for example color filters or Ghost filters.
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User interface is extremely customizable
XYplorer's user interface can be customized in almost every conceivable manner, from size and placement of various frame elements, to fonts, colors, toolbar buttons, if you can think it, you can probably do it.
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Separate 32 and 64-bit context menus
This is very useful for accessing some context handlers or when using the portable version across several systems.
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Long path names supported brilliantly
Windows File Explorer, over time, will eventually allow you to create path lengths, usually accidentally, that are "very long" (ie too many characters based on Windows standards). And then, out of nowhere, you no longer have full functionality available to the directories and files in that long path. eg: you won't be able to open a file, or rename it, or copy it, or delete it, etc. In order to regain full functionality available to the files/ directories in that "long path", you have to go and manually shorten the "long path" length by deleting characters in filenames, directory names, etc, In other words, Microsoft will "allow" you to break the rules (.. ie in most cases without warning ), but then won't support the broken rules. This is where XYPlorer is super useful -- especially when you move big chunks of data from A to B -- you no longer have to care about long path name issues.
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Per-user license
Just one license covers all of your computers.
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Extremely versatile renaming
Renaming can also be combined extremely easily in basic scripts for chaining and combining the strengths of the different types of renaming available. Can also rename based on metadata.You don't really need to "learn scripting" to chain a bunch of renaming commands. Multiscripts can even give you a menu of your chained renames - with nested menus if desired. It takes very little knowledge to be able to do this. One can even run such a script by drag and drop.
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Faster than Windows Explorer ever thought of being
This is faster than Windows Explorer when combined this with TeraCopy. Currently, it is present in the right-click menu, but you can drag and drop it to copy with Windows File Explorer.
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Community support
Extensive and active support forum with unusually quick, thorough, and friendly assistance.
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Branch view
Can show all files in a folder and all of its subfolders at once.
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Can replace Windows Explorer
So that folders are automatically opened in a new tab of XYplorer rather than on Windows Explorer when called from other softwares.
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Asynchronous copy and move operations
It's possible to queue copy and move operations so that multiple large copy/move operations don't interfere with each other (disk thrashing) and you can continue working with the program.
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Can use system, XY's custom copy routines, Fast Copy, and Teracopy interchangably without scripting
Can save any set of command-line options with a friendly label. Switching is as easy as right-clicking on a button.
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Preview files
From documents to audio and video. All files can be previewed from within the program and without the need to open other software packages. This is a very useful feature when working with multiple files.
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Supports correction of illegal file and folder names
Easily rename a folder to make it legal. Search for dangerous unicode characters. Rename all files to ASCII if you wish.
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Clean, uncluttered interface
Clean and uncluttered interface, easy to concentrate on the files and folders that you need.
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Let's you select files by typing any word in the current directory
In windows file explorer when you want to select a file of the current directory, you have to type exactly the same name from the start of the file. In xyplorer you can type just part of it. Ex: filename "resume_work" With xyplorer you could just type work and it would show the file being marked (this is configurable).
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Dark mode
Latest beta-release introduces the "dark mode" that we already know from other software. It's auto-computed based on the current colour-settings and has 51 shades of darkness. Can be activated with a simple checkbox, no further tweaking required!
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Has more features than any other file manager
None of the managers, including Opus, Speed commander, Total commander, F man, Xplorer2, Tabbles, etc., but none of them can compare with it in easy usage, features or customization. The author updates it very frequently and has added many users requests.
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FLAC as well as MP3 Support for Metadata and Previews
Most are MP3 only.
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HoverBox
A no-click preview to quickly see folder contents, pictures, videos, pdf, office files, archives (zip, rar...)...
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Option to disable lazy drag-and-dropping
A good practice to improve your workflow and eliminate accidental unwanted file movings to places! Brilliant!
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Exhaustive list of previewable archive formats
Works with help of 7zip, even a portable install works.
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Huge feature list, something for everyone.
The extensive feature list will give you plenty to work with.
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Safety belts
Configurable options to prevent accidental file movements or deletions.
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Nuke button
Files and folders can be "nuked" without needing to go through the recycle bin.
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Ability to identify text files containing any range of extended characters
For example in the find files dialog, you can specify *.srt and contchar:>127 to find all subrip files that contain extended characters.
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Communication with the programmer
You can reach the programmer very quickly and request new features.
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Easy to copy file names and directories
Right from the context menu, you can copy file names, paths or full file path names. Really handy.
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Easy/extensive file renaming
Easily renames one (or many) files right from the context menu. It supports search and replace, batch, regex, changing extension, copy/paste a while list of filenames, spaces to unscore (and vice versa), changing capitalization, and so much more. Also, the "Preview" feature makes it easy to verify changes before applying them. Fantastic!
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File tabs
Extensive support for file tabs. You can rename and lock them too. Even further, you can quickly switch from one tab view to another. You can have sets of tabs for every project you work on. It really speeds up your workflow!
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Responsive support
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Fast and powerful search
Searching is extremely fast and thorough - no matter if you're looking for items by name, attribute, content, or trying to find duplicates (either with a selected hash or byte-to-byte). It allows you to search within your files, looking for specific terms, including wildcards and regular expressions. It also supports regular expressions and filter/sort your search results by file size, file modification date, etc. Can save complicated, often-used searches easily as "Search Templates" to reuse, tweak, or use in a script. Can set to instantly narrow a list as you type, or highlight if you prefer, with multiple options such as "Prefer Beginning of Column" or use currently sorted column. Supports Standard wildcards, Boolean, and Regex.
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"Mouse Down Blow Up" feature
Mouse Down Blow Up is a quick file preview that pops up when you mouse-down on the icon or thumbnail of a file, and disappears on mouse-up.
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Platforms:
Windows
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Per User
Portable:
Yes
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WCM Commander
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Built-in terminal
Has a built-in terminal from which users can run any kind of command.
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File editing on virtual file systems not supported
You cannot edit files in the virtual file system.
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Virtual file system
WCM Commander has a virtual file system for smb, ftp and sftp.
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Built-in editor
WCM Commander has a built-in text editor with syntax highlighting included.
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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:
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32 or 64 bit:
Both
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Worker
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Innumerable button-click file ops are integrated
Rename files, move to other directories and extracting archives are of course a given...BUT THERE'S MORE! Convert media formats, make symlinks, CHMOD, change graphic formats, integrated GPG, filename UPPER/lowercase adjustments and more with just one button click!
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Remote access
Worker supports access to remote machines through various ways (ssh, ftp, rsh, http and webdav).
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Low system requirements
The system requirements for Worker are pretty low, making it a great option for lower-end machines. The reason why they are pretty low is because Worker is basically made of just X11 libraries.
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Configuration GUI
Worker has a built-in configuration GUI.
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Sunflower Twin-Panel File Manager
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Open-source
Sunflower is free and open source, the source code is freely available on GitHub.
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Doesnt start on Fedora 26
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Python code
Easy to enhance and fix because of Python's relative simplicity.
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Lightweight
Very fast and light without losing functionality.
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Nemo
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Elegant
The most stylish among all FMs.
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Changing the background color or font type for customization is not practical
You have to do it with finding and editing the relevant CSS files. No buttons, menus or sliders for such customization.
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Extendable
Nemo can be extended to have additional features through third party plugins.
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Incomplete mimetypes
Like all nautilus forks it allows you to run svg-files due some incomplete mimetype coverage.
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Easily open as root
Option to open folder as root from within the right click menu.
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Depends on GNOME
Depends on gnome toolkits an libraries.
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Easily open file location in terminal
Option to open a folder in terminal, which can help executing commands such as bash.
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Has dual pane functionality
This functionality was removed in Nautilus and Dolphin at least in Ubuntu-Gnome, but Nemo kept this option, making the obvious functionality of cut, copy and paste much easier.
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Double pane and search by name capabilities
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Supports bookmarking
You can bookmark folders that you open often, this way you can easily access them from anywhere while using Nemo.
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Good networking options
Supports ftp, ssh and samba connections.
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Queues file operations
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Dolphin
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Immenseley configurable
As with any KDE app, Dolphin, allows adding or modifying toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts.
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May be a little slow on startup
Dolphin can be a little slow on startup (depending on distro, hardware etc...). Startup time can vary from a couple of seconds to up to a minute.
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Can split views
Dolphin supports splitting the view in two navigational areas, this way you can navigate two different directories at the same time.
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Can hang on remote file systems
It doesn't cope well with remote file system nicely like sshfs or any samba, like when network is not responding/very slow. It just hangs.
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Integrated terminal
Pressing F4 with any opened folder on a mounted path opens a console within dolphin.
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"Type" column too verbose
Despite having a large enough monitor, if you keep the size of the browser window small, the "Type" column (in "Details" view mode) insists on including the complete multipart MIME string, making the column so wide that trying to limit its width makes the column useless. Sorting by "Type" renders the list into an incomprehensible mess.
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Also has a refresh option
Dolphin is without a doubt the best fully functional and easy to use and multitask with. Dolphin also has a refresh button which no other File manager has. It's great for tracking a large files transfer; that's what file managers are for - good common sense.
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Poor optimization on later versions
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Easy to extend with plugins
Dolphin follows KDE's philosophy of being extendable and configurable. It can easily be configured and customized through plugins.
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Too simple
Feels weird on KDE because it has less customizing options Konqueror and any other KDE app have.
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Auto mounts flash drives
Dolphin automatically identifies and mounts external flash drives.
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Can't perform ROOT actions
Developers set a constraint in Dolphin that deny Dolphin to run with root permissions. Hence, if you want to perform an action that require root permissions, such as rename a file in /etc/ folder, you are forced to use terminal or switch to another file manager.
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Fast at opening graphics folders
Pictures with or without previews is optional and selectable at the touch of a button.
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Does not use third party libraries
Unlike all those GTK-based file managers it does not have to rely on external written software for its functionality because KF5 is KDE SOftware and developed alongside.
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Keeps its state
It starts with last opened folders.
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Fully supports HiDPI
Supports HiDPI displays.
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Automatically centers items
In icons view mode, the space between files gets stretched so that there is never and annoying empty space at the right side of the window.
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SpaceFM
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Incredibly customizable
Just right click on any menu or menu option (including the context menu itself) and you'll be allowed to customize it. This lets you add support or integration for features you find missing.
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Ugly
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Minimal dependencies
It only needss gtk, udev, desktop-file-util and shared-mime-info which is available in most systems.
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Some operations are slow
Because it tries to be as lightweight as possible and tries to use very little RAM. This can unfortunately lead to it being slow sometimes.
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Highly extensible
Functionalities can be extended by user scripts as plugins. Some scripts can also be downloaded from https://github.com/IgnorantGuru/spacefm-plugins/wiki. Plugins can be exported too.
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Not for everyone
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Tab and panel support
SpaceFM supports up to 4 individually customizable panels as well as multi-tabbed file management.
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Ugly
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No back seat driver
Does not obstruct professional work by engrossing root warnings.
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Desktop management support
Can be used to set wallpaper and desktop icons with high configuration support.
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Easily open folder as root
Can open different folders as root, this way you don't have to use the terminal to move around files for which you need root permission.
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Gtk-2 and 3 support
Available in gtk2 and gtk3.
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Intuitive and extendable through plug-ins
Great UI, easy to use and configure, several plug-ins available to make everyday tasks even easier.
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Disk Order
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No move across Window function
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FTP/SFTP support
Can be used to connect to a server over FTP/SFTP.
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Built-in viewer
Disk Order has a built-in viewer for html, rtf, mov, mp3, jpg, gif, tiff and many other file formats.
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Versatile dual-pane interface
Disk Order is split in two side-by-side panes each of which can have tabs with different views. Great for easily managing files.
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Caja
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4
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Easy to configure
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Frequently very slow to transfer multiple small files
Folders move fine, but it chokes on files, where other browsers take seconds.
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It has a reasonable set of features, out of the box
Not too much cluttered, but enough customizable.
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Mostly unconfigurable
There are not many ways to configure Caja to fit your needs. Besides what can be seen in the settings button you can't configure it further.
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Caja script extension makes it more useful
Caja script extension adds your script in script menu, then passes the file name as a parameter. This allows you to run operation which is not included in Caja.
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Sort Order / Limited Configuration Options
It ignores special characters when sorting files and folders. Underscore, tilde, bracket, ASCII characters, .... everthing not recognized in numeric/alpha sorting. Also, I found no way to remove the triangle to reveal contents of sub-folders rather than opening... but I did quit looking after several seemly unalterable functionality issues.
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Allows you to access remote or local locations
You can click the Files entry in the panel to access a specific location (remote or local), connect to a certain server (FTP, SFTP, SAMBA, etc.), access your bookmarks, open a new window, as well as to change its default functionality.
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Very slow to list thousands of files
Unusably so.
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Open or run as administrator in the right-click-menu of the mouse
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It just works
Customizable and clean, this is crushing that garbage nautilus, the overrated p.o.s. gnome destroyed.
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ForkLift 3
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Best UX/UI'd file manager on the market
It's just a perfectly crafted app, try and enjoy
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Like Apple, it does not standardize file size. Mixes up KBs, MBs GBs in the same column which makes it very difficult to review file sizes
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Rewritten in Swift
Forklift 3 is a significant update from FL2, having been rewritten entirely in Swift.
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Like Apple, shows the date of Today's file as "Today" instead of the actual date
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Optional dark UI
In addition to the default Mac gray UI, Forklift 3 offers an alternate "Dark Mode" featuring light text elements against dark backgrounds.
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Does not sync the "selected" folders (i.e. highlighted ones), but the "current" folders (i.e. the top of the visible tree.)
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Connect to and mount lots of storage options
FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Google Drive, Rackspace CloudFiles, SMB, AFP, NFS, VNC, etc.
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Does not show the fixed tree section in the left pane of a dual horizontal panes
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Easily toggle hidden files
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Built-in application remover
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jFileProcessor
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Easy to run commands on selected files
Find/select files in sub-folders. run touch %f or cp %f /somefolder (this is a way to copy selected files in different levels, into 1 folder, flattening out the copy).
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Does not see attached phone files
No mtp:/ connected phone files.
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Easy rename files script
Select files. regex to match pieces of filenames, rename adding, leaving out, and reusing saved pieces.
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Groovy scripts to watch and act on files that get created/put into a folder.
So you can watch a folder and process files that come into it.
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You can make your own file associations. You can make 3 types, per suffix, per filename, per exact file.
With exact file you can create a folder of job or desktop icon names. Double-click that file to run the job since it is tied to just that specific file.
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Can make sftp connections
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You can write a script to modify your list
Your script can modify contents in the list window it is working on.
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Plugin scripts
Just put groovy scripts in menu-scripts folder and they will automatically run using currently selected files.
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Run any groovy scriptable command on a list
Run commands on your lists: grep files to find stuff, delete/copy/move files, etc.. Even copy a file to a remote host and execute it.
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Create and work with lists of filenames or any string
Search files and save to another file or a list window. Add or subtract one list from another.
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Can do count only
Just count matching search criterion.
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Good search
Search on modified time, file size, glob/regex name, folder depth; and/or on these and can do range.
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Cross-platform
Available for Linux, Windows, macOS - just needs java 7+ (written with 8).
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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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