Favourite file manager

Yuriy Zabroda

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. :)

Andreas Saurwein

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

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Ryan Binns

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)
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Yuriy Zabroda

What's wrong with TC?

Marc Clifton

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.
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Lost User

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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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Yuriy Zabroda

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?

Paul Watson

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Bruce Duncan

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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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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Ryan Binns

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)
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Nikolay Denisov

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

dandy72

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...

Yuriy Zabroda

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.