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- rclay, on 10/12/2007, -47/+263no digg since it costs money.
- mixmastabob, on 10/12/2007, -5/+110You think Windows Explorer sucks? Try Finder, its even worse! This is coming from a Mac user!
Bury away! - Kahnza, on 10/12/2007, -12/+112@1021
Maybe he didn't BUY windows. ;) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -21/+119Windows Explorer is good enough.
- socalrob, on 10/12/2007, -8/+88@rclay
RTA a little closer...
There is a free Lite version. Thats what they use in the article. http://zabkat.com/x2lite.htm is the URL to download it as mentioned in the article. - Kahnza, on 10/12/2007, -9/+60@1021
But he said BUYING proprietary software was a waste. Not running it. :p - ckSubs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36"Uhmmm, Windows user here, you won't tell me Finder can't do that, will you?"
Yep. No cutting files or folders in Finder windows. It's absolutely retarded. - ThatsUnpossible, on 10/12/2007, -10/+44Why does there "gotta be?" I can think of a million app types where there is nothing close from the open source world.
Just use the best tool for the job and quit the religious BS. - wolkengrau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34>>Personally, my biggest issue is that I would like the ability to cut folders and paste them into different folders.
Uhmmm, Windows user here, you won't tell me Finder can't do that, will you? - sathias, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32Real men manually retype the file in binary
111000100101101010110101010.... - ckSubs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29Yeah, Finder REALLY blows. They need to update that asap. Way more important than Time Machine et al in my opinion.
- corevette, on 10/12/2007, -35/+62Let's face it: Buying proprietary programs is a waste.
Firefly
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3076
A File Browser built inside Firefox - PunX0r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28I find the normal Windows Explorer alright for day to day use.
The only thing that really annoys me with it is when copying large amounts of files and it hits a file in use or a corrupted file and it stops the whole copy....
Does anyone know of a good enhancement to explorer that will keep copying and tell me what failed at the end? - macgyber, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29Not to mention Xplorer2 looks like a mess.More functionality doesn't always have to mean dozens of extra buttons and option panes.
- clos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25The reason why these types of stories are nice is the comments that follow them. Thats where I get all the good information...
- antoniuk, on 10/12/2007, -8/+32Why would I pay money to be lazier in explorer? I rarely use it anyway. sounds like a lame ad here to me
- macgyber, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Real men stfu and get on with the job.
- redxii, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Nothing beats Progman.. except I don't have a 16-bit subsystem anymore..
- 1021, on 10/12/2007, -46/+67@corevette
"Let's face it: Buying proprietary programs is a waste."
Oh boy, this will take us on a logical reasoning path starting at:
Assume all the stuff in quotes above is a truthful and you believe it to be so too.
Assume also that you are a user of MSFT Windows saying this, why else would you be talking about a Windows Explorer replacement.
Ok, here is the logic:
You have Windows => You have (Proprietary Software) AND believe proprietary software to be a "waste" => You have waste => You are trying to convince other people that what you have, other people shouldn't => You are a HYPOCRITE. - Cablito, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22"Wow. Is there anything firefox can't do?"
Yeah, pass the ACID2 Test, which well, it was supposed to. - 1021, on 10/12/2007, -17/+34@kahnza
he's still running proprietary software, whichever way he obtained it is ignorable.
btw, I didn't at all mean to sound so pro-proprietary geek. I just think that as we stand here today, there are a lot of advancements made first in the proprietary field that allowed us to be where we are today. Losing sight of this fact by blindly supporting the OSS "religious" fervor doesn't help us as we stride forward nor as we try to look back upon the past. - Platypus3333, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Personally, my biggest issue is that I would like the ability to cut folders and paste them into different folders.
- MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Ew. Pretty much every "explorer replacement" out there sucks.
Vista's explorer has been improved, and personally, I like it. Breadcrumb navigation, redesigned around your data being accessible from the index, etc. - 1021, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19@digital
are you kidding me? in windows? bleh... next you will be telling me "Real men use the edit command to edit files" - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Can you tell us about any specific features you like best? I'm interested in this program but don't really feel compelled to try it for some reason. I'm sure most people here feel that way (or they wouldn't be leaving comments here).
- Masterrer, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19Burried as inaccurate…
Nothing beats Total Commander - heavyness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11vista's explorer is one reason to upgrade. the "bread crumb trail" address bar speeds things up and the fact you can click and drag folders into the favorite links section is a huge time saver.
- dylanrush, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16I'm just hoping its on Bittorrent.
- itsme92, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11@macgyber
I'm digging you up because I hope what you're saying is true, not because I think it's true - mysticpain, on 10/12/2007, -21/+30Gotta be an Open Source application out there which is better. I am IT in a Windows business world. Therefore.... I suffer.
- Skarz3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Seconded on DOpus. Not free, but it has paid for itself for me 100x over. I love that thing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I guess those game digg sites really do work.
- scarystuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This is NOT a replacement for explorer. When I run it, i still have explorer.exe running. Get Total Commander instead or even better, get Directory Opus which has a real replace mode.
- MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Error601. under Vista, you can pull up the Resource monitor, which shows a live view of what processes are accessing the disk, and their Read and Write speed for each individual file each process is dealing with.
It shows IO Priority and Response time too. - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8It had a feature rundown, talked about the different versions, and expressed the differences from the competing product. It's not blog spam when the blog has all the content. I thought it was an insightful article.
Do you have specific criticism about this blog entry or are you just a baseless blog hater? - robotz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This is lame compared to Directory Opus - a real Explorer replacement for real power-users.
- EerFoolWVU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6ExplorerXP is the best I've ever used and 100% free.
http://www.explorerxp.com/
Tabbed browsing, fast, and includes a lot more sortable columns. - awhiteflame, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@manageMyRights:
Actually, no. Darwin is the underlying OS. "Mac OS X" is generally everything else. It's not just a terminal.. - randomracoon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Corvette:
Paying for proprietary software is not a waste.. it is capitalism. People should stop complaining about having to pay for software and start complaining about over paying for crappy ones. - goat2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7agreed one trillion percent.
- MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Powershell is great for that kind of stuff. There's also a new way under Vista to perform file operations within a transaction, which is pretty cool.
- MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, that's probably the big problem that Powershell will have to face. I mean, It's really really nice, piping around objects instead of text, access to the .NET Framework, etc., Everyone already _knows_ bash, usually, usually pretty well if Powershell is the kind of thing that would appeal to them.
- Complexium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Agree. Total Commander is the most powerful explorer I've ever used. It has everything, and some more, that you'd ever need.
- atmofunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4ESPECIALLY when you are moving multiple folders and you have no idea what files from what folders were successfully copied over before it decided to stop. I usually just do the whole copy over again. ARGH!
- PunX0r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4So are there any proggies that do this?
- clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -15/+18Burried.... just blog spam! This is not a useful article.
- sbgunn, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12I agree. Also, while I may admittedly be one of the less tech-savvy diggers, changing something like this seems like a fairly fundamental change to the system. Digg me down for being a pussy (or preferably correct me so I'll know better in the future), but I try not to ***** with any settings on the computer that I'm not sure I can change back without too much trouble.
- zdiggler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3LOL..
There was two kind of computer people, like PC and Mac people and there was Norton Commander and XtreeGold People.
NC FTW! - jerrro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Directory Opus kicks all other filemanagers butt, it's just the best!
- Spr0k3t, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I believe Dopus will do just that. Set for dual listers and select the files you want to copy. Everything copies over except those which err'd out. The ones with problems will still remain selected.
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