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FreeCommander
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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The user interface has an outdated look, with a lot of button and menu options that can be overwhelming.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:
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AntTek Explorer Ex
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Beautifully designed
The Holo like UI looks nice as well as operates fluidly with all of the built in features such as the dual pane view.
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SMB support is limited and speed is an issue
SMB support has trouble with larger files. The app also has speed issues when navigating.
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Themes
AntTek Explorer Ex has light and dark themes built into the app as well as support for outside themes.
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It can zip and unzip
AntTek Explorer Ex has built in .zip file support for compressing and .zip and .rar support for uncompressing files.
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Can browse network and cloud files
There is no need to connect a phone to a computer via USB nor a reason to keep all files on the device itself.
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FX File Explorer
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SMB where?
Unable to find the option to connect to an SMB server without upgrading to "pro" version. Can it even be done in the free version?
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Plus add-on for network browsing
FX File Explorer has a paid Plus add-on that add more functionality to the app such as network file browsing and a built in text editor. It costs $2.99 and has a 24 hour return policy.
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Dreadful interface
A great example of what happens when a developer puts form before function. Pretty to look at but awkward and unintuitive to use.
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Material Design
FX File Explorer utilizes the Material Design guidelines set forth by Google.
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New Material Design look is not that great
FX File Explorer use to have a better design to it before the Material Design overhaul.
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PRO SMB2 support
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Supports many compression and uncompression file formats
FX File Explorer features numerous compression file formats such as .zip or .tar as well as a .rar decompression tool.
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Root add-on
There is a free root user add-on that allows root file editing and viewing.
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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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MiXplorer
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Unlimited tabbed browsing and dual panel in landscape mode and drag and drop between panels also supported
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Not on PlayStore
The developer has chosen to not place the app on the Play Store but to offer it for free on the XDA forums. This may be inconvenient for some as the app will have to be side loaded.
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SAMBA, FTP, SFTP, WEBDAV, BLUETOOTH support
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Image browsing
Image browsing has bugs.
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Can do tasks in background
Things like pasting/moving files can be done in background.
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Search
Search doesn't work in landscape mode.
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Extract and create compacted files
Extract and create 7z and Zip/Zip64 (splitted-encrypted), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, GZIP, BZIP2 and extract RAR (splitted-encrypted, RAR5), XZ, APM, CAB, ISO, ARJ, AR, LZH, LHA, CHM, MSI, WIM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB, NSIS, LZMA, NTFS, FAT, VHD, MBR, SWM, MSLZ, CramFS, Dmg, ELF, MachO, Mub, PE, Split, Xar, Z, Udf, HFS, SquashFS, PPMD.
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Buggy sometimes
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Queue Tasks
Can Queue every task, copy, paste, move, delete , rename etc.
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Some features are not free
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Root access for all advanced operations
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Theming support
Download and apply a theme or easily create you own.
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Active forum support
Lots of guys giving pointers on the xda.
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Available for Android TV
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Multilingual
Supported languages of the main program: English, German, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,Tamil and many more.
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FTP/HTTP server built in
Share files trough the browser.
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Tasker
Automate tasks.
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All your cloud storage needs accessible from one single app
Choose from 19 providers: Mega.co.nz, Dropbox, Box, Yandex, HiDrive, Baidu, Mediafire, Kuaipan, Kanbox, IDrive, Hubic, 4Sync, Google Drive, Copy, Meo, OneDrive, pCloud, SugarSync, VDisk. clouds which support webdav like (Yandex.ru, OwnCloud, MyDrive.ch, DriveHQ, CloudMe, CloudSafe, ...).
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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
License:
Per-Machine (plus personal laptop)
Portable:
No
32 or 64 bit:
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
License:
GPL-2.0-only
Technology:
Free Pascal
User Interface:
GUI
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Multi Commander
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Slow Right Click Response
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Separate tree for each panel
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Settings are a bit complicated
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Both 32 bit and 64 bit versions available
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Tree cannot be displayed on the right side
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Free
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File coloring based on filters
Including optional background coloring. Limitation of this pro: text and background color cannot be taken from 2 different filters and thus combined but on the positive side: it provides coloring profiles, which can be switched (supposedly easily).
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Full of features
A hundred different options: multi-rename, convert line break of files (CR, LF, CRLF), double panel, folder tree, tabbed interface, colourized tabs, etc.
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Portable version available
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Heavily customizable
Besides many customizable on-board options and features, one can also write his/her own scripts and even full plug-ins.
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Written in C++
The program launches fast.
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Support for FTP, Registry, and OneDrive
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Powerful scripting system
You can easily write powerful scripts even without knowledge of programming.
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Platforms:
Windows
32 or 64 bit:
both
Windows Requirements:
Windows 10 / 8.x / 7 / Vista / 2003 / XP / Server 2012 (R2) / Server 2008 (R2)
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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
Interface:
GUI/CLI
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Sliding Explorer
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Material Design
Sliding Explorer is designed following Google's Material Design guidelines.
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Has trouble reading external SD cards
Sliding Explorer has users reporting that there is trouble with it reading external SD cards.
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Root access
Sliding Explorer has root access support for editing root files on a device.
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ZIP support
Sliding Explorer features ZIP file support for compressing and extracting .zip files.
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Explorer++
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Open source
GPLv3.
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Has some issues with context menu integration
Some context menu integrations work, others don't. git-bash and cmder don't seem to work, for example, but kdiff3 does.
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Supports the standard Send To menu
It supports the standard Send To menu which helps to install extentions which rely on the Windows API only.
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Supports bookmarks
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Tab design
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Platforms:
Microsoft Windows
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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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Amaze File Manager
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Open source
Amaze File Manager is an opensource file manager.
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Slow
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Material Design and fast operation
Amaze File Manager follows the Material Design guidelines as well as operates very fast.
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SMB and SFTP fails
Failed to connect to server using either SMB or SFTP.
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Built-in FTP server
That's an easy way to access your phone filesystem from another device. But be careful when using it on untrusted networks, because FTP protocol has encryption.
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Cannot do file actions in ZIP packages
You have to extract all files from "package.zip' package to a new folder 'package' if you want to view a single file.
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Light and dark themes
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No networking tools
Sadly there are no networking tools built into Amaze File Manager.
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Light on resource consumption
This app has a very specific purpose - browsing and interacting with your files. It remains light (no incurred battery usage) and doesn't pollute your phone with new apps to open your files but instead uses your default applications for that.
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Built-in SMB client
Amaze File Manager can connect to SMB shares (AKA samba, AKA window shared folders). Press the "+" button, then "Cloud connection", then "SMB Connection".
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Built-in root explorer
If your Android device is rooted, you can use this app to access system files.
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Great customer support
Support is available 24/7. Your emails will be answered within 24 hours.
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Solid Explorer
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Easy to use
With the amount of functions as well as the two pane browsing, Solid Explorer is very easy to use.
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Costs money
There is a 14 day free trial, but for those that would like to use the app longer, it will cost money to unlock.
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Two panel browsing
Solid Explorer allows for two separate panels to be browsed simultaneously, allowing for easy copy past functions as well as drag and drop.
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Slow SMB connections
Connecting to a Samba server can take 30 seconds or longer.
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Beautiful material design
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No native Office document viewer or video player
There is no native document viewer, except for the plain text editor (SE Text Editor), nor is there a native video player, with the exception of a video casting app (SE Video Cast). The video casting app appears to require a Chromecast device.
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Connects to cloud services
Add Google Drive, One Drive, Dropbox, and more, all natively through extensions.
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Ability to read and extract ZIP, 7ZIP, RAR and TAR archives, even encrypted
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Rich customization options: icons sets, colour schemes, themes
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A perfect implementation of Material Design
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Multi-Platform Versatility
Solid Explorer has efficient, productive, and fluid interfaces customized for each users' specific platforms. Versatile, intuitive, and productive on small mobile screens, and capitalizes on larger mobiles (tablets), increasing functionality with added screen real estate.
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Cloud file manager: Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, Google Drive, Sugarsync, Copy, Mediafire, Owncloud, Yandex
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Ability to create password protected ZIP and 7ZIP archives
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FTP, SFTP, WebDav, SMB/CIFS clients
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Root access makes Solid Explorer a fully functional root explorer
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Detailed file information with storage usage statistics
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Native picture viewer (SE Image) and music player (SE Music Player)
Allows quick opening of images and audio files to preview without opening another app.
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Useful tools: hiding unwanted folders, FTP Server (plugin), bookmarks, Chromecast support, media browser
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Batch rename: change names of multiple files at once using regular expressions and variables
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Indexed search finds your files in a couple of seconds
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Protect individual files &/or folders with a password
If your device has a fingerprint sensor you can use it to open encrypted files without a need to provide the password. The same applies for cloud storages, which can now be accessed with the fingerprint as well.
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Extensibility: more features in separate plugins available in Google Play
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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/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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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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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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Windows
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Speed
The Silver Searcher is lightning fast.
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Idiot proof
"ag searchterm" - it's that simple in its purest form.
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Support VCS ignore files
Ag can speed up by ignoring files matched by pattern in ".agignore" (deprecated), ".ignore" (since ag-v0.33.0), and VCS ignore files (.gitignore, .git/info/exclude, .hgignore, svn:ignore).
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Good overview of results
Grouped by file, highlighted with background color, linenumbers by default
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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:
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Both
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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:
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Per User or Per Machine
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Free (Lite) / $29.95 (Pro) / $49.95 Ultimate
Portable:
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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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Windows, Mac
License:
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ExplorerMax
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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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