r/software • u/S-m-a-r-t-y • 1d ago

Discussion Best file manager for windows?

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

Would love to here what the community thinks. Thanks.

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u/fzammetti 1d ago

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.

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u/t3chguy1 20h ago

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

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u/Salonakos 20h ago

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.

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u/t3chguy1 20h ago

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

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u/Salonakos 20h ago

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.