looking for a very good file management app

[takeru]

i have 7 drives full of data that i am trying to sort out. i am looking for an application that possibly can see all the drives, listing everything root for root, directory for directory, as if they were as one drive, AND be able to sort/move/etc the files and directories around. does anything like this exist?

 

[MountainKing]

No clue about what you are specifically looking for but Directory Opus is the best in its category although its payware.

 

[QcGuy]

You could try Powerdesk 6, its freeware. It is very similar to the old Norton Commander and Xtree filemanager.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/powerdeskfree.html

 

[gizbug]

Total Commander!

 

[Maetryx]

You might try windirstat http://windirstat.info/

 

[theAnimal]

xplorer2

 

[abaez]

I use Powerdesk 7, although I miss the days of xtree gold.

 

[nordloewelabs]

i'm looking for one too.... i cant get used to the new Windows Explorer.

 

[takeru]

not sure if there is anything like it. basically i want something that will show all directories in one window. like say:

c drive has:
DATA1
DOCS1

d drive has:
DATA2
DOCS2

i want it to show like:
DATA1
DATA2
DOCS1
DOCS2

in one listing. pretty much as if all my drives were one drive instead. so the only way i see the file path is if i highlight the file/folder. and allow me to edit/move/delete them as well.

 

[theAnimal]

How about a duplicate file finder?

Example.

 

[nickeaston]

For duplicate music files, DoubleKiller is the only dupe finder I am aware of that has enough options to actually analyze only the musical content of a music file and can totally ignore tags (if you choose).

 

[nickeaston]

Here is my comment on PowerDesk elsewhere in the forum, if you have huge folders to manage:

I was pleased to stumble on this thread on PDPro. I have used it since the days of Xtree on occasion, but the most important (priceless) feature I use almost daily is one of its sub-apps called PDFind.exe.

This is the only Explorer replacement applet that I know about which allows me to manage folders in XP and Windows Home Server with 300,000 .mp3 tunes--Windows Explorer is not up to such a task, at least with the existing ram and cpu combinations in my desktops and server.

 

[imported_dlb]

For me, Total Commander. Extremely flexible, but highly DIY, you'll have to spend a lot of time on extending and configuration, but afterwards you'll have extremely efficient tool for managing your files.

Directory Opus is great too, has some really nice features, works well from the start, but I couldn't configure it to work they way I wanted and extendability is almost non-existing compared to TC.

And there's FAR. I never got into it because I was scared off by the command line interface, but I heard really a lot of good about it.

 

[starams5]

Originally posted by: SuLyMaN
No clue about what you are specifically looking for but Directory Opus is the best in its category although its payware.

+1 for Directory Opus, the double-click on desktop feature rules!