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Solve : Alternatives to Windows Explorar.? |
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Answer» Sometimes you think you need a batch file to arrange stuff in your folders and give them better names. Maybe what you really need is just a different way to manage files and folders. These file managers incorporate several functionalities which are not part of the Windows Explorer and hence provided added convenience to the users. If you are looking for alternative file managers then there are few good options which you may consider.Here is a CLEAVER one: Not always free, but free to try. Explorer to me is lacking SEARCH for files, so I use Agent Ransack with Windows 7. Windows XP use to have a search feature built into it and Microsoft removed it in Windows 7. So I used this a lot when trying to find a file that I either know the NAME and dont know where I saved it, or know part of its name in which i can use * wild cards, or can search by file extension with wildcard to track down where a CPP file was saved and list all of them and then sort alphabetically and then look through the list and select it from the search when found. Prior to this I was using the a batch search to try to locate files on a system which is much slower than Agent Ransack. It appears that the XCOPY instruction doesnt tap into the Windows INDEX service, so it searches from 0 to 9 and A to Z before completing alphanumerically. Agent Ransack taps into the Index Service and can track down files lightning fast. The XCOPY method of searching I used was something like XCOPY *.cpp F:\search\*.* /S /L >searchresult.txt for writing to a file the result of the XCOPY /S /L result, so i would have to run it and then open the text file when done and then use the find feature in notepad to find what i am looking for of the output if lengthy over 100 matching files etc. Agent Ransack is so much better than an awkward batch file search method that discloses the tree information like this. Dave, I've found Everything incredible for searches, myself, as long as the search doesn't need to consider text content. Within a fraction of the second I can effectively search All my hard drives for files with names containing certain text. I believe it reads the NTFS MFT directly through a background service. I've saved a lot of time where I've saved a file without looking exactly where I saved it and start rummaging through folders searching for it- STICK part of the new filename in everything and it comes back instantly. Amazing program. It is bittersweet, however, as it's replaced my occasional usage of my own Search tool from 7 years ago. Now then, on-topic- Explorer replacements. I've found that I tend to stick with the default File Explorer. There are a lot of various nifty programs, but oftentimes people eventually decide they aren't worth the effort to use when they have to use the default on other systems anyway. I think this came up in a discussion quite some time ago regarding Console2 which effectively provided command prompt, Bash, and Powershell within a single tabbed interface. (Found the discussion). Clover is more a modification of the standard File Explorer/Windows Explorer. It basically just adds a Tabbed Interface. Total Commander I have no idea if this is related to Norton Total Commander. Seems like there are versions going back to Windows 3.1, so if you're looking for a new File Navigation shell on an older system this could be the ticket. Directory Opus is commercial software but has a free version. I've heard good things and the feature listing certainly is interesting. The price seems a bit steep for what could almost be argued as a commodity. On the other hand, it would still be a better deal than "No Man's Sky". Explorer++. This one is less like Explorer and seems to draw a lot of it's design from the old Windows File Manager, but modernized.I also use EVERYTHING and think it's fabulous.Cool I will give it a try... thanks for the info on how it would replace my agent ransack process. Quote How long will it take to index my files? WOW thats FAST! Only 1 second, hardware specific stat though, slower 5400RPM HDD and a weak CPU might make this take longer. Additionally 70,000 takes a second and 1,000,000 takes 1 minute. Its non linear ( not exact ) and just a general opinion I would think as for 1 second for 70,000 should take 10 seconds for 700,000 and so it would take FAR lesser than a minute if it only really just took 1 second for 70,000. 1,000,000 in 1 minute is 16,667 files per second, not 70,000. And at 70,000 per second it should be 4,200,000 files in a minute. So Windows 8 of 70,000 files should take 4.2 seconds at 16,667 at 1,000,000 per minute so if its really 70,000 files in a second it should have 1,000,000 completed in 14.29 seconds not a minute. Quote from: BC_Programmer link=topic=157894.msg951787#msg951787 date=1472137954 [url=http://www.gpsoft.com.au/ Directory Opus[/url] is commercial software but has a free version. I've heard good things and the feature listing certainly is interesting. The price seems a bit steep for what could almost be argued as a commodity. On the other hand, it would still be a better deal than "No Man's Sky". I've been using Directory Opus (paid version) for a long time and while it's unquestionably more than I (or most users) need, it's also EVERYTHING I (or most users) need.For Everything's Indexing, I just set mine to rebuild my entire index. Across three drives with a total of 3.3 Million files, it took around 40 seconds. At any rate I don't think PERFORMANCE scales linearly. more files means a higher likelihood of MFT fragmentation and of course means reading more of the MFT as well. Really, though, when it comes to building an index- you really only do that once. After you build it initially it uses the NTFS Journal to see changes and update the index. Total Commander for me... However if you have a weekend you can get XTree Gold to work on new Win versions...Best file management app i've ever used... |
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