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  • A Andreas Saurwein

    Uri Mellshior wrote: What is your favourite file manager? My wife. She has lots of files and manages them very well. :-O


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    Yuriy Zabroda
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    Another possible reason: She likes your fingertip touches and hates mice. ;););)

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    • Y Yuriy Zabroda

      Another simple question: What is your favourite file manager? Why?

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      Marc Clifton
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      I use Total Commander a lot. It does a bunch of things that I haven't even explored yet (ha ha ha), but one of the features that I really use it for is synchronization between my laptop and my desktop. It's awesome. http://www.ghisler.com/[^] Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
      Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
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      Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"

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        I use Total Commander a lot. It does a bunch of things that I haven't even explored yet (ha ha ha), but one of the features that I really use it for is synchronization between my laptop and my desktop. It's awesome. http://www.ghisler.com/[^] Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
        Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
        Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
        Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"

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        Yuriy Zabroda
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        I love it too (since yesterday), after several years of using FAR ([^]) It seems that the only drawback of Total Commander is that I don't have a laptop. :)

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        • M Marc Clifton

          I use Total Commander a lot. It does a bunch of things that I haven't even explored yet (ha ha ha), but one of the features that I really use it for is synchronization between my laptop and my desktop. It's awesome. http://www.ghisler.com/[^] Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
          Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
          Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
          Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"

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          Andreas Saurwein
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          Marc Clifton wrote: Total Commander One of the ugliest user interfaces ever. X|


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          • B Brian Delahunty

            Explorer... Why? It does almost everything I need it to do while never crashing [Ok.. it did on 9x/ME but on 2k/xp it's never crashed for me] Sure there would be some nice feature that could be included [Better support for ompressed archives, easy ftp/scp access to remote servers and so on] but I can't think of a decent one out there that does this at the moment. Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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            Ryan Binns
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            I just wish they made accessing networks better. When you try to access a network share that isn't available, it just sits there, unresponsive, for about 5 minutes. The least they could do is put in an animated dialog so that you at least know something is happening. Ryan Being little and getting pushed around by big guys all my life I guess I compensate by pushing electrons and holes around. What a bully I am, but I do enjoy making subatomic particles hop at my bidding - Roger Wright (2nd April 2003, The Lounge)
            Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late - John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

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            • A Andreas Saurwein

              Marc Clifton wrote: Total Commander One of the ugliest user interfaces ever. X|


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              Yuriy Zabroda
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              What's wrong with TC?

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              • A Andreas Saurwein

                Marc Clifton wrote: Total Commander One of the ugliest user interfaces ever. X|


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                Marc Clifton
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                Andreas Saurwein wrote: One of the ugliest user interfaces ever I partly agree. I vaguely remember looking at the default color scheme and the bolded fonts, etc., and going Yuck! Fortunately, all that stuff is customizable. Now it looks like Explorer but with two side-by-side directory views. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
                Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
                Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
                Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"

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                • P Paul Watson

                  Uri Mellshior wrote: What is your favourite file manager? My PA Uri Mellshior wrote: Why? She looks better than Windows Explorer, also makes a mean cup of tea. ;P It's Friday, so sue me. I find Windows Explorer does the job well enough. If you structure your folders, shortcuts and mapped drives well enough you can get a pretty efficient system going. Certainly though from what I hear of the next FS in Windows things are going to improve a lot (multiple categories per file being #1.)

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                  Paul Watson wrote: It's Friday, so sue me. I'll still call you Paul if thats ok :laugh: Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D

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                  • Y Yuriy Zabroda

                    What's wrong with TC?

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                    Uri Mellshior wrote: What's wrong with TC Nothing wrong, just plain ugly. I also find the whole concept of transferring a NC clone onto a GUI totally wrong. Under DOS I used and loved NC, but under windows this does not make sense anymore. But I'm missing the speed of the original File Manager in pre-W95 days. :((


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                    • A Andreas Saurwein

                      Uri Mellshior wrote: What's wrong with TC Nothing wrong, just plain ugly. I also find the whole concept of transferring a NC clone onto a GUI totally wrong. Under DOS I used and loved NC, but under windows this does not make sense anymore. But I'm missing the speed of the original File Manager in pre-W95 days. :((


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                      Of course TC is not ideal. One of possible reasons is that it is written in Delphi X| X| X| X| as far as I can see. But what's wrong with the whole concept?

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                        Paul Watson wrote: It's Friday, so sue me. I'll still call you Paul if thats ok :laugh: Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D

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                        Paul Watson
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                        Trollslayer wrote: I'll still call you Paul if thats ok Now who is the spoilsport *pout* ;p

                        Paul Watson
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                        Macbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er Shog9: Paul "The human happy pill" Watson

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                          I just wish they made accessing networks better. When you try to access a network share that isn't available, it just sits there, unresponsive, for about 5 minutes. The least they could do is put in an animated dialog so that you at least know something is happening. Ryan Being little and getting pushed around by big guys all my life I guess I compensate by pushing electrons and holes around. What a bully I am, but I do enjoy making subatomic particles hop at my bidding - Roger Wright (2nd April 2003, The Lounge)
                          Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late - John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

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                          Ryan Binns wrote: unresponsive, for about 5 minutes Then it displays an error message/whatever, you click ok, and it proceeds to wait for another 5 minutes (repeat 2 or 3 times)

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                            Of course TC is not ideal. One of possible reasons is that it is written in Delphi X| X| X| X| as far as I can see. But what's wrong with the whole concept?

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                            Uri Mellshior wrote: But what's wrong with the whole concept? On a GUI you have better possibilities than simulating character mode and split screen. Take for example the Taskbar: I seldom open a explorer window on the "My Computer" level, rather I ctrl+click on a drive in the taskbar and navigate trough the popup menu either by keyboard or mouse - thats many faster than anything else. Same works fine for Network, Control panel, printers, etc. By proper organizing your desktop you can be as quick (if not quicker) with the mouse as with the keyboard.


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                              Ryan Binns wrote: unresponsive, for about 5 minutes Then it displays an error message/whatever, you click ok, and it proceeds to wait for another 5 minutes (repeat 2 or 3 times)

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                              Exactly... unless of course you haven't given up and forcefully shut it down by then :) Ryan Being little and getting pushed around by big guys all my life I guess I compensate by pushing electrons and holes around. What a bully I am, but I do enjoy making subatomic particles hop at my bidding - Roger Wright (2nd April 2003, The Lounge)
                              Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late - John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

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                              • Y Yuriy Zabroda

                                Another simple question: What is your favourite file manager? Why?

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                                Nikolay Denisov
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                                FAR manager. It's quite convenient, has classic interface and reminds me of NC. http://rarsoft.com/far_manager.htm[^] Regards, Nikolay

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                                  Explorer... Why? It does almost everything I need it to do while never crashing [Ok.. it did on 9x/ME but on 2k/xp it's never crashed for me] Sure there would be some nice feature that could be included [Better support for ompressed archives, easy ftp/scp access to remote servers and so on] but I can't think of a decent one out there that does this at the moment. Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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                                  Lucky you. A few weeks after I did a fresh install of XP, Explorer started to crash left and right when doing even the simplest things--moving files, renaming files, right-clicks, you name it...and rather inconsistently. Eventually the problem went away--I'm not sure exactly which Windows update fixed it, but I never found anything that specifically purported to fix this particular problem...

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                                  • A Andreas Saurwein

                                    Uri Mellshior wrote: But what's wrong with the whole concept? On a GUI you have better possibilities than simulating character mode and split screen. Take for example the Taskbar: I seldom open a explorer window on the "My Computer" level, rather I ctrl+click on a drive in the taskbar and navigate trough the popup menu either by keyboard or mouse - thats many faster than anything else. Same works fine for Network, Control panel, printers, etc. By proper organizing your desktop you can be as quick (if not quicker) with the mouse as with the keyboard.


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                                    Maybe it's only question of personal taste and preferences rather than worse/better controversy? He who prefers working with keyboard would prefer something like FAR Manager or Total Commander, those who prefer working with mouse would prefer to work with Explorer or something like it.

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