- Comparison of file managers
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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of notable file managers.
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General information
Basic general information about the managers: creator/company etc.
File Manager Creator First public release date Date and number of latest stable version Cost Software license Altap Salamander Altap 1997-08-15 2010-06-25 (2.53) US$ 30 Proprietary CubicExplorer Marko Savolainen 2008? 2009-04-03 (0.90.0.1131) Free MPL Directory Opus Jonathan Potter,
GPSoftwareAmiga: v1 (1990-01-03)
Windows: v6 (2001-06-18)2011-09-09 (10.0.2.0) A$ 85 Proprietary Dired integral part of Emacs,
part of the GNU project1978? 2002-04-12 (7.10) Free GPL Disk Order LikeMac Group 2004-02 2008-02-xx (3.0) US$ 29.95 Proprietary Dolphin KDE 2006-06-07 (0.5) 2010-02-09 (1.4) KDE 4.4
Free GPL Dos Navigator RITLabs 1991 (0.90) 1999 (1.51) Free Original BSD License Double Commander Alexander Koblov 2007-12-26 2010-08-21 (0.4.5.2 only beta available) Free GPL emelFM2 tooar 2003-09-06 2009-07-13 (0.6.1) Free GPL FAR Manager Eugene Roshal (originally),
FAR Group1996 2010-02-25 (2.0) Free Revised BSD license File Commander Brian Havard 1993 2011-03-03 (2.40) A$ 35.00 Proprietary File Manager Microsoft (Ian Ellison-Taylor) 1990? 2000-08-06 (4.90.3000) Part of Windows Proprietary Finder Apple Inc. 1984-01 2009-11-10 (10.6.2) Part of Mac OS X Proprietary FreeCommander Marek Jasinski 2004 (?) 2010-09-12 (2009.02b) Free Proprietary Gentoo file manager Emil Brink ? 2010-10-17 (0.19.3) Free GPL GNOME Commander GNOME Commander 2001-09 2010-07-27 (1.2.8.7) Free GPL Konqueror KDE October, 2000 2009-09-01 (4.3.1) Free GPL Krusader Krusader Krew 2000-07-11 2009-04-11 (2.0.0) Free GPL Midnight Commander mc GNU Midnight Commander 2011-09-12 (4.7.5.4[1]) Free GPL muCommander Maxence Bernard 2002-02-17 2010-02-23 (0.8.5) Free GPL Nautilus Eazel 2001-04-11 2010-04-26 (2.30.1) Free GPL Norton Commander Peter Norton Computing,
later Symantec corporation1986 1999-02-01 (2.01Windows
DOS: 1998-07-01 (5.51))? Proprietary Path Finder
(originally called SNAX)Cocoatech 2001-04 2009-03-26 (5.1) US$ 39.95 Proprietary PathMinder Albert Nurick and
Brittain Fraley1984 1988 (4.11) US$ 39.95 Proprietary PCManFM Hong Jen Yee 2006-01-09 2011-08-09 (0.9.9) Free GPL ROX-Filer Thomas Leonard et al. Before 2000-03-10 2008-05-17 (2.8) Free GPL SpeedCommander SpeedProject 1993-05 2010-05-17 (13.20) € 39.95 Proprietary STDU Explorer STDUtility 2009-03-23 2009-11-16 (1.0.96) Free Proprietary Thunar Xfce 2006-01-22 2011-01-16 (1.2.0[2]) Free GPL Total Commander Christian Ghisler 1993-09-29 2010-12-17 (7.56a) CHF 40 / € 32 Proprietary Volkov Commander Vsevolod Volkov circa 1992 2000 (4.05/4.99.08) shareware/freeware Proprietary Windows Explorer Microsoft 1995-08-24 2010 Part of Windows Proprietary WinSCP WinSCP ? 2010-09-23 (4.2.9) Free GPL Xandros File Manager Xandros Corporation ? 2007-07-26 (4.2) Part of Xandros Desktop Proprietary Xfe Roland Baudin 2002 2011-06-05 (1.32.4) Free GPL Xfile Rixstep 2003-03-02 2007-02-19 (1.8.0) US$ 79.00
(with 80+ other apps)Proprietary Xfm Simon Marlow, Albert Gräf, Robert Vogelgesang, Juan D. Martin, Till Straumann 1992 2001-09 (1.4.3) Free GPL xplorer² Nikos Bozinis 2004-06-10 2009-06-07 (1.7.2.6) US$ 29.95
(lite is free)Proprietary XYplorer Donald Lessau 1997 2011-08-29 (10.20.0000) $69.95 / €49.95 Full
$42.95 / €29.95 HomeProprietary ZTreeWin Kim Henkel 1996 2010-01-30 (2.1.061) US$ 29.95 (1-4) Proprietary File Manager Creator First public release date Latest stable version Cost Software license Operating system support
Cross-platform file managers
This table shows the operating systems that the file managers can run on, without emulation.
File manager DOS Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix AmigaOS OS/2 & eCS OpenVMS Directory Opus No Yes No No No No Yes[3] No No Dired Yes[4] Yes[5] Yes[6] Yes Yes Yes Yes[7] Yes[8] Yes[9] Dolphin No Needs KDE[10] Yes[11] Yes Yes Yes No No No Dos Navigator Yes Yes No No No No No Yes No Double Commander No Yes No Yes ? ? No No ? emelFM2 No No No Yes Yes Yes No No No File Commander No Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No GNOME Commander No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Konqueror No Needs KDE[10] Yes[11] Yes Yes Yes No No No Krusader No No Needs X Yes Yes Yes No No No Midnight Commander Yes Yes[12] Yes[13] Yes Yes Yes Yes No No muCommander No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No Yes Nautilus No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No PathMinder Yes Yes No No No No No No No PCManFM No Needs POSIX-compliant platform Needs POSIX-compliant platform Yes Yes Yes No Needs POSIX-compliant platform Yes ROX-Filer No Yes Yes Yes No No No Thunar No No No Yes Yes Yes No No No Volkov Commander Yes Yes No No No No No No No Xandros File Manager No No No Yes ? ? No No No Xfe No Needs X Needs X Yes Yes Yes No Needs X Yes Xfile No No Yes No No No No No No Xfm No Needs X Needs X Yes Yes Yes No Needs X Yes ZTreeWin/ZTreeBold No Yes No No No No No Yes No File manager DOS Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix AmigaOS OS/2 & eCS OpenVMS Mac-only file managers
- Disk Order
- Finder
- Path Finder
- Xfile
*nix-only file managers
- emelFM2
- Gentoo file manager
- GNOME Commander
- Krusader
- PCMan File Manager
- ROX-Filer
- Thunar
Windows-only file managers
- Altap Salamander
- CubicExplorer
- Directory Opus[3]
- FAR Manager
- File Manager
- FreeCommander
- SE-Explorer
- SpeedCommander[14][15]
- STDU Explorer
- Total Commander[14][16]
- Windows Explorer
- xplorer²
- XYplorer
Manager views
Information about what common file manager views are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).
Note that the "Column View" does not refer to the Miller Columns browsing / visualization technique that can be applied to tree structures / folders.
File manager Family UI Icon view List view Column view Thumbnails Details + Thumbs Grouping Content dependent[17] Twin panel Favorites / Bookmark Panel tabs Altap Salamander Orthodox GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes ? No CubicExplorer Navigational GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes ? No Yes Yes Demos Commander Orthodox Text ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? Directory Opus Orthodox GUI Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Dired Orthodox Text ? Yes ? Yes, on GUI[18] Yes, on GUI[18] ? ? Yes, one or more Partial (bookmarks) Yes (show tab-bar optional)[19] Disk Order Orthodox GUI ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? Yes Dolphin Navigational GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Dos Navigator Orthodox Text ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? Double Commander Orthodox GUI ? Yes Yes ? ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes emelFM2 Orthodox GUI No Yes No Yes[20] ? No No Yes ? No FAR Manager Orthodox Text No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial[m 1] File Commander Orthodox Text No Yes Yes No Partial Yes No Yes No No File Manager Orthodox GUI Yes Yes No ? ? ? ? Yes No No Finder Spatial / Miller Columns GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, with Cover Flow Yes No No Yes No FreeCommander Orthodox GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ? Yes Yes Yes gentoo Orthodox GUI ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? GNOME Commander Orthodox GUI No Yes No No ? No No Yes ? Yes Konqueror Navigational/Orthodox GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial Yes Yes Yes Yes Krusader Orthodox GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No Yes Yes Yes Yes Midnight Commander Orthodox Text ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? Nautilus Spatial/Navigational GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Partial Path Finder Navigational GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes PCManFM Navigational GUI Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ? ? No Yes Yes ROX-Filer Spatial GUI Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No Yes No SpeedCommander Orthodox GUI Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes STDU Explorer Navigational GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No Total Commander Orthodox GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes In viewing Yes Yes Yes Thunar Navigational GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No ? No Yes ? Volkov Commander Orthodox Text ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? Windows Explorer Spatial/Navigational GUI Yes Yes Yes [m 2] Yes Partial [m 3] Yes Yes No Yes No Xandros File Manager Navigational GUI Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Xfe Navigational GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes ? Xfm Spatial GUI Yes No No No No ? ? No ? No xplorer² Hybrid Navigational/Orthodox GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[21] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes XYplorer Hybrid Navigational/Orthodox GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes ZTreeWin Orthodox Text No Yes Yes No Partial Yes No Yes Yes No File manager Family UI Icon view List view Column view Thumbnails Details + Thumbs Grouping Content dependent Twin panel Favs-panel Panel tabs Twin-panel file managers have obligatory connected panels where action in one panel results in reaction in the second. Konqueror supports multiple panels divided horizontally, vertically or both, but these panels do not act as twin panels by default (the user has to mark the panels he wants to act as twin-panels).
Network protocols
Information on what networking protocols the file managers support. Note that many of these protocols might be supported, in part or in whole, by software layers below the file manager, rather than by the file manager itself; for example, the Mac OS X Finder doesn't implement those protocols, and the Windows Explorer doesn't implement most of them, they just make ordinary file system calls to access remote files, and Konqueror either uses ordinary file system calls or KIO slave calls to access remote files. Some functions, such as browsing for servers or shares, might be implemented in the file manager even if most functions are implemented below the file manager.
File manager SMB/CIFS WebDAV NFS AFP FTP FISH/SSH Altap Salamander Yes No ? No Yes Yes CubicExplorer ? ? ? ? No ? Directory Opus Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes (SFTP & SSL[25]) Disk Order ? ? ? ? Yes Yes (FTPS & SFTP) Dolphin Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes emelFM2 ? ? ? ? ? ? Far Manager Yes Partial[n 1] Partial[n 2] No Yes Yes[n 3] File Commander Yes Partial[n 1] Partial[n 2] No Partial[n 4] Partial[n 5] File Manager ? ? ? ? ? ? Finder Yes[n 6] Yes[n 6] Yes[n 6] Yes[n 6] Partial[n 6] No FreeCommander Yes ? ? ? Yes ? GNOME Commander Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Konqueror Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Krusader Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes muCommander Yes ? Yes ? Yes Yes Midnight Commander Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Nautilus Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Path Finder Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (Read Access) No PCManFM ? ? ? ? ? ? ROX-Filer Yes[n 6] Yes[n 6] Yes[n 6] Yes[n 6] Yes[n 6] Yes[n 6] SpeedCommander Yes ? Partial[n 2] ? Yes Yes Total Commander Yes Yes[n 3] Partial[n 2] No Yes Yes Windows Explorer Yes Yes Yes[n 7] No Yes No Xandros File Manager ? ? ? ? ? ? Xfe ? ? ? ? ? ? Xfm ? ? ? ? ? ? xplorer² Yes Yes[n 8] Partial[n 2] No Yes No XYplorer ? ? ? ? ? ? ZTreeWin Yes Partial[n 4] Partial[n 2] No Partial[n 4] Partial[n 5] File manager SMB/CIFS WebDAV NFS AFP FTP FISH/SSH - ^ a b WebDAV support in these file managers requires the installation of NetDrive or Webdrive.
- ^ a b c d e f NFS support in these file managers requires the installation of Services for UNIX.
- ^ a b Support is provided via a free 3rd-party plugin.
- ^ a b c FTP support in these file managers requires the installation of NetDrive or Webdrive.
- ^ a b SSH support in these file managers requires the installation of SftpDrive or Webdrive.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Support is provided by the underlying operating system.
- ^ NFS support requires either the freely downloadable Windows Services for UNIX or is built-in starting with Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate editions as Subsystem for Unix-based applications (SUA).
- ^ WebDAV is supported via Microsoft Windows' built-in Network Places/Mapped Drive functionality.
File features
Information on what basic file features the file managers support.
File Manager File compression File encryption Rename busy files File preview File coloring filter[34] File selection filter Paste clipboard as file File and folder reports ACL (Access control list) Mass Rename[35] Altap Salamander Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes, multiple[36] ? Yes Yes[37] Yes CubicExplorer ? Partial[38] ? Yes No Yes ? ? ? No Directory Opus Yes Partial Partial Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes Disk Order Yes ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? Dolphin Yes ? Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? ? Partial Double Commander Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes emelFM2 Yes Yes Yes No ? Yes No ? Yes ? FAR Manager Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Plugin Yes File Commander Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes File Manager ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Finder Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No ? Yes No FreeCommander Yes ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? Yes GNOME Commander Yes ? ? Yes Yes ? ? ? No Yes Konqueror Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes[39] Krusader Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes ? Yes Yes[39] Nautilus Yes No Yes Yes No No Partial[40] No Yes No Path Finder Yes No[41] No Yes No Yes No Yes No No PCManFM ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ROX-Filer With helper apps Yes Yes No Yes No No No Yes SpeedCommander Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes STDU Explorer No No No Yes No No No No No No Total Commander Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Log file Yes Windows Explorer Yes Partial[38] No Yes No No Partial[42] No Yes[43] Partial Xandros File Manager ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Xfe ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Xfm ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? xplorer² Yes Partial[38] Partial Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[44] Yes XYplorer Yes Partial[38] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ZTreeWin Yes Partial[45] Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes File Manager File compression File encryption Rename busy files File preview File coloring filter File selection filter Paste clipboard as file File and folder reports ACL (Access control list) Mass Rename Browsing features
File manager Browse compressed folders Slideshows Directory Sizes Branch Sizes Directory Compare Synchronizer Find as you type (Type-ahead find) Altap Salamander Yes No Yes ? Yes Partial (for remote folders) Yes CubicExplorer ? No No ? ? ? Partial Directory Opus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Disk Order Yes ? Partial ? Yes ? ? Dos Navigator / NDN Yes ? Yes ? Yes ? ? Dolphin Yes No Yes No No No Yes emelFM2 ? No Yes ? Yes ? Yes FAR Manager Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes File Commander Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Finder No Yes Yes ? No No Yes FreeCommander Yes ? Yes ? Yes Yes Yes GNOME Commander No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Konqueror Yes Yes Yes(with konq-plugin) ? ? ? Yes Krusader Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Midnight Commander Yes[46] ? Yes ? Yes Yes[47] Yes Nautilus No No Yes No No No Yes Path Finder No Yes Partial ? No No Yes PCManFM ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ROX-Filer No No Yes ? No ? Yes, and browsing with tab completion SpeedCommander Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Thunar No ? Yes ? No No Yes Total Commander Yes Yes In plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Windows Explorer Yes Yes Yes (in folder tooltips) Partial No Yes Yes Xandros File Manager ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Xfe ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Xfile ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Xfm ? ? ? ? ? ? ? xplorer² Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes XYplorer No No Yes Yes No Partial Yes ZTreeWin Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes File manager Browse compressed folders Slideshows Directory Sizes Branch Sizes Directory Compare Synchronizer Find as you type (Type-ahead find) Search features
Information on what file searching features the file managers support. RegExp include the possibilities of nested Boolean searches, thus implicitly all file managers supporting RegExp search support also Boolean searches.
File manager File name/content search Basic metadata search All metadata search RegExp Boolean (nesting levels) Fuzzy logic Save searches[48] Refined searches[49] Altap Salamander Yes Yes ? Yes[50] Yes ? Yes Yes CubicExplorer Yes No No No No ? No Yes Directory Opus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Disk Order Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dolphin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes emelFM2 Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Partial ? FAR Manager Yes Yes Yes Yes[s 1] Yes[s 1] Yes[s 1] Yes Yes File Commander Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes No Finder Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes ? FreeCommander Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Konqueror Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes Krusader Yes Yes Yes Yes[51] No No Yes Yes Nautilus Yes Partial[s 2] Partial[s 2] ? ? ? Yes ? Path Finder Yes Yes Yes No No ? No No PCManFM Yes ? ? Yes Yes ? ? ? ROX-Filer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No ? SpeedCommander Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Total Commander Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Partial[s 3] Windows Explorer Yes Yes No ? ? ? Yes Yes Xandros File Manager ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Xfe No No No No No No No No Xfile Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Xfm ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? xplorer² Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes XYplorer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[52] ZTreeWin Yes Yes Partial Partial[53] Yes Yes Yes Yes File manager File name/content search Basic metadata search All metadata search RegExp Boolean (nesting levels) Fuzzy logic Save searches Refined searches Extensibility
What parts of the application can be extended by plugins?
File manager Filesystem support Attribute columns File previews Metadata indexing Unicode support Visual Themes Altap Salamander Yes Yes Yes ? Partial No Directory Opus Yes Yes Yes Partial Yes ? Disk Order Yes ? ? ? ? Dolphin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? emelFM2 ? ? ? ? ? Far Manager Yes Yes Yes Partial Yes[e 1] No Finder Yes No Yes Yes Yes[e 2] Partial[e 3] FreeCommander ? ? ? ? No ? Konqueror ? ? Yes ? ? Krusader Yes Yes Yes Partial ? Midnight Commander Yes No No No Yes No Nautilus Yes ? Yes ? Yes ? Path Finder ? ? ? ? ? PCManFM No No No No No No ROX-Filer No Yes No ? SpeedCommander Yes Yes Yes ? Yes No Total Commander Yes Yes Yes Yes In search tool Yes[e 4] Partial[e 5] Windows Explorer Yes Yes Yes Yes[57] Yes Partial[e 3] Xandros File Manager ? ? ? ? ? ? Xfe No No No No No No Xfile ? ? ? ? ? ? Xfm ? ? ? ? ? ? xplorer² Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes XYplorer Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ZTreeWin Yes No Yes ? Yes No File manager Filesystem support Attribute columns File previews Metadata indexing Unicode support Visual Themes - ^ In Far 2.0
- ^ Unicode support depends on Mac OS version. Mac OS X's Finder includes full Unicode support, while Mac OS 8 and earlier does not. May be supported in >=8.1 and <=9.2 if using unicode filesystems.
- ^ a b File and folder icons customizable on OS level and via folder properties
- ^ Main change in Total Commander 7.50
- ^ User can change toolbar icons
Notes
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander
- ^ Thunar git repository tag
- ^ a b Directory Opus 5.82 Magellan II is the last commercial version available for Amiga, and an unregistered (but fully functional) version has been released with the AmiKit distribution. Directory Opus 4 is maintained separately under an open source license.
- ^ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/info2www?(emacs)MS-DOS
- ^ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
- ^ http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html
- ^ http://de5.aminet.net/util/gnu/em1934src.readme
- ^ http://home.snafu.de/ohei/emacs/emacs206-os2.html
- ^ http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsOnVMS
- ^ a b http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Installation
- ^ a b http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=category&substr=kde4
- ^ Cygwin or unsupported native port
- ^ Runs in text mode inside Terminal window
- ^ a b Windows 95 and later
- ^ Capability to operate within a web browser either as Internet Explorer ActiveX component or Mozilla ActiveX Control
- ^ Windows Mobile
- ^ Content Dependent (System) refers to a system which attempts to detect the dominant type of files in that folder and then select the most appropriate view mode for you automatically.
- ^ a b Activating Image-Dired command in the graphical interface.
- ^ Tab-bar mode can be activated to show the tab-bar (else it will be hidden).
- ^ Optional image thumbnailer plugin since v0.3.4 (24/5/2007)
- ^ Via "Mirrored Browsing" feature
- ^ Requires an additional licence (purchased separately)
- ^ Files matching certain user defined criteria (e.g. name pattern, attributes) are displayed in another color. Example: Since Windows 2000, the UI guide requires NTFS compressed files and folders displayed in blue, whereas uncompressed ones are black.
- ^ Mass Rename is a feature to rename large number of files in a convenient way and including a preview, see the screenshot for an example. Common options are subdirectory inclusion, wildcards, manual mode (offering to edit names as text files in editors), counters, time related fields (eg. "date created"), path related fields (eg. "parent directory name"), regular expressions etc.
- ^ Altap Salamander offers to show only selected files and hide unselected ones, also in picture viewer etc. For selection, the usual wildcards and add/subtract/intersect with 1...N stored selections are offered.
- ^ ACL is dependent on the type and version of file- and operating system. Altap Salamander offers quick access to owner, auditing and permission settings in WinXP with NTFS 5.
- ^ a b c d The encryption feature in Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional, and Windows Server 2003 is in fact a user-transparent filesystem-level encryption feature for NTFS. The file manager merely enables or disables it.
- ^ a b Needs KRename, an application that integrates into Konqueror and Krusader.
- ^ Only text which is dragged from another program and dropped into a folder in Nautilus can be pasted as a new file.
- ^ Path Finder apparently integrates with Knox, an encryption utility.
- ^ Supported up to Windows XP only. Document scraps are not supported in Windows Vista and later.
- ^ Via system File Properties dialog, NTFS-only. Must be enabled manually in Windows versions prior to Server 2003.
- ^ Via system File Properties dialog, NTFS-only.
- ^ Encryption is supported for Zip and Rar, other formats depend on the editable ARCHIVER.BB2 file
- ^ Extensible via compression plugins, supported formats list depends on distribution package maintainer
- ^ Can be done in two steps
- ^ Save searches: Ability to save templates containing all search settings (file filter, metadata requirements etc.). Results of saves searches are always live, so not the results but the search conditions are saved.
- ^ Also known as iterative searches. For example the ability to finish one search and then perform a new search a) only within these results (intersect the two result sets / the requirements of both searches have to be met), 2) adding to these results (combine both result sets to a bigger set) or 3) subtract from those results (original result set reduced by intersection of result sets).
- ^ Altap Salamander Search offers RegExp for defining the file content.
- ^ Krusader - Twin Panel File Management For Your Desktop
- ^ After searching results, user can apply advanced visual filters to narrow down search.
- ^ ZTreeWin provides several context specific search syntaxes that are not pure regex
- ^ IFilters
External links
- Softpanorama Orthodox File Managers page (Home of the OFM standard)
- Comparison of some "light" File Managers in GNU/Linux (in spanish)
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