Best File Manager

[pcslookout]

Looking for the best File Manager when organizing files.

Don't care if it is free or paid.

 

[tcsenter]

Norton Commander.

 

[GrumpyMan]

Norton Commander.

I've heard good things about this program. Personally I like Q-Directory. I think it's up to version 5.44 or something like that. Allows me to look at 4 of our servers at once and move junk around them easily by just dragging and dropping.

 

[kleinkinstein]

Q-Dir rocks! It's free, x64 and even portable. What else could you possibly want?

 

[corkyg]

Z-Tree for Windows.

 

[BlueWeasel]

My personal favorite is XYplorer. It's not free, though.

 

[jolancer]

Never used one, so someone else can input if they know... but are all those programs just doing the same thing as this... http://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.net/static.php?page=XPlorer

...except the others not being free and wasting space?

 

[tcsenter]

I've heard good things about this program. Personally I like Q-Directory.

That was partly in jest. Norton Commander was the shiznit about 20 years ago.

 

[jhansman]

That was partly in jest. Norton Commander was the shiznit about 20 years ago.

In my DOS days (and even early Windows), NC was the only file manager I'd use. Total Commander tries to emulate what it did, but seems lacking. Time to explore the others named here.

 

[IronWing]

In my DOS days (and even early Windows), NC was the only file manager I'd use. Total Commander tries to emulate what it did, but seems lacking. Time to explore the others named here.

For DOS I preferred Directory Control (dc.com).

For Windows, Windows Explorer is pretty good once you get it configured the way you like and install the cmd anywhere powertoy.

 

[Cerb]

Q-Dir rocks! It's free, x64 and even portable. What else could you possibly want?

Cookies. Specifically, Archway Dutch Cocoa cookies, which are absent from the new retail line-up.

Anyway, I'll be checking that out. I recently had Explorer not show a ton of files in a big directory (no support for collisions, only has up to X characters, or...?), and got kind of annoyed at needing to use 7-zip as an in-between to start organizing the files (it saw them all), and Q-Dir indeed looks pretty neat.

 

[hclarkjr]

directoryopus is the best, cost a pretty penny though. well worth it http://www.gpsoft.com.au/

 

[jobz]

Explorer++, light, free.
http://explorerplusplus.com/

 

[lxskllr]

Explorer++, light, free.
http://explorerplusplus.com/

and full of GPL goodness. Next time I boot to Vista, I'll give that a shot. When I ran Windows, it never occurred to me to change the file manager. Explorer pretty much did everything I needed, but there were some annoyances. I guess this would eliminate the irritating folder view changes Vista had?

 

[Binky]

For Windows, Windows Explorer is pretty good once you get it configured the way you like and install the cmd anywhere powertoy.

The command prompt anywhere function is built into Win7 now. Hold shift then right-click any folder.