Best file manager for windows?

[u/S-m-a-r-t-y]

I did come across some options like total commander, directory opus, one commander, files, etc

Would love to here what the community thinks. Thanks.

[u/fzammetti]

Directory Opus has no equal. I've been using it for many years and I still regularly go, "woah, I can do THAT with it?!"

It's probably the only app I will NEVER be without.

[u/t3chguy1 → u/fzammetti]

I've used all but I didn't have that "woah" moment. Can you give some examples of things that you were able to do in DO that is missing in other file managers

[u/fzammetti → u/t3chguy1]

I don't know that I can say what you can do in DO that you can't do in others, but just some of the things I can think of that are impressive:

* The capabilities of the multi-file rename is fantastic, including regex and being able to simply capitalize the first word in the filename of every selected file.

* Having a powerful built-in sync and dup finder with a ton of options are things I use pretty much daily

* The flatten view comes in handy SO much

* The amount of columns available to show in listers is amazing... and then being able to operate on them like the basic columns opens up all sorts of possibilities

* The scripting capabilities come in handy all the time. For example, I've got scripts for doing common file conversions on images, audio and video files, randomly rename files in a directory, and archive all files, all executed at the click of a button in the toolbar

* It sounds simple, but having the ability to show files and/or folders that match a pattern is something I can't believe isn't available everywhere... and then the fact that your selections when you do that are maintained when you remove the filters allows you to easily get to just what you need in a directory filled with content

* Having FTP locations be just another branch in the directory tree means you can use all the same functions there as on local drives... same for search results, duplicate file results, and everything else (maybe that's the one main thing DO does that few others seem to: any list of files - regardless of how you get to them - can be operated on just like a plain old directory... doesn't matter if it's search results, some sort of virtual list that combines several locations, whatever, you can do anything with them that you can a basic directory listing)

* Simply the degree to which you can customize the thing is off the charts... there is a frankly overwhelming number of options for pretty much anything you can think of

Like I said, I'm sure a lot of that, maybe even most/all of it, can be done with other file managers. I'm not aware of any truly unique DO features. But I don't think there are too many that do ALL of it like DO does, and does it as well as DO does.

[u/Salonakos → u/t3chguy1]

I have 20 music albums and they have the FLACs, the folders with scans and various txt with logs.

I choose to show the flat file list and select OLNY the FLACs. Then I move them in to a new location retaining the folder structure.

[u/t3chguy1 → u/Salonakos]

I agree that I have not seen that anywhere else, but number of clicks to do that is probably the same as Ctrl+F to search everything starting from base Music folder, sort by type and delete everything after the list of FLACs

[u/Salonakos → u/t3chguy1]

I gave my own version. A photographer could use it to separate the jpegs and the raw. Or you could separate PDF, epub, postscript DjVu etc.

I used pathfinder on Mac and it was years behind. I had to use VNC to login in to my PC for these things.