Talk:Comparison of file managers

message: Total Commander has a "synchronize" feature that is a very powerful tool for comparing (bit by bit or just by file attributes) the files in two directories (or drives). It shows what is unique to either and can automatically copy files (to synchronize the directories) in either direction or in both directions. The "Synchronize" feature should be added as a column so we can see what other file managers have this powerful feature. Since TC only runs on Windows, it would be nice to find an Linux/OSS alternative.  75.45.177.91 18:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: sorry, but i disagree. Synch is normally a feature of a difference app. That TC has it is nice .. but a column with only one "Yes" in it is not useful, and adds to the difficulty of editing that table
 — vulcan_ (talk · contribs) 11:04, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add column for the "synchronize" feature 

message: WINE and Cygwin have somewhat comparable roles (at least in my life): Cygwin gives me a POSIX environment, GNU compilers for Win32 and Win64, Python, Perl, etc.  It also has a fairly large collection of previously Linux-only software which run with variable degrees of success.  Some file managers (Thunar, Caja, MC, Dolphin, GNOME Commander, Nautilus, Konqueror, libfm, pcmanfm-qt, and ytree are available in package repositories.  Software for Cygwin must be compiled (typically done by Redhat/Cygwin, but you can compile your own) for the Cygwin environment.
Similarly, WINE gives me a Win32 (and increasingly Win64) runtime library which, unlike Cygwin, lets me run unmodified Windows programs under Linux.  In the past I have tried out a few of the PortableApp file managers, but don't recall which ones worked and which ones didn't.  Since file management depends on a lot of OS level stuff (e.g. which filesystem you use--although WINE hides this fairly well for most programs I have used it for, mostly SQLyog (MySQL & MariaDB GUI), but most of the non-system dependant portable apps I have used work just fine.  
I think it would be helpful to add "Cygwin" and "WINE" to the list of operating systems, even if they are not actually operating systems.  
It does mean a bunch of people need to do a bit more research on their favorite file managers, but it is worth it for the growing number of us who have to juggle Windows and Linux (often on the same machine--a whole new Wikipedia article on this topic would be wonderful, e.g. how to get DropBox and your mail to sync and occupy space only once and shared between both operating systems, plus if you use any sort of file indexing that too takes up a lot of CPU cycles, disk reads and a lot more space than most people think).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrKC MD (talk • contribs) 04:38, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: WINE and Cygwin

message: This is the default XFCE filebrowser in linux and should be added to the list by someone who's experienced with it
:I'm working on it. --I80and 21:48, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add to list 

message: More about nautilus - if you press F3, it shows two folder in one window, so it CAN compare folders.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.167.40.216 (talk) 09:44, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: A folder-compare feature would involve more than that (for instance, some way to show the files that are different versus the same, filtering the list to show different or identical files, and usually providing the ability to compare based on size and/or date.  Just showing two folders doesn't provide a comparison TEDickey (talk) 10:56, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Nautilus again

message: about PowerDesk: by V-Com. Available in both free and purchased versions (Pro). A good file manager for Microsoft Windows based PCs. Single or dual pane views. Good feature set, network smart, FTP, Zip view make and extract. 
Someone needs to add this file manager to the list for Windows OS.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.197.90.42 (talk) 09:59, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  PowerDesk

message: Unless you are using platform like Linux, users are most likely stick with the one provided by the OS, right? File manager, unless web browser, is much a fundamental OS feature... Its feature set is limited by factors like file systems. --minghong 09:19, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Only if you use Windows, but then again, if you use Windows, you don't really have many choices since Explorer is the only file manager available for that platform. While I think most Mac users would use Finder, Linux, BSD and Unix users have quite a few choices, so it's not meaningless. Explorer and Finder should be included just for the sake of comparison, even if they're proprietary and come boxed with a particular OS. Also, with how the EU forced MicrosoftWhat will i work with? to release a version of Windows without Windows Media Player, it is possible (albeit unlikely) that Windows will in the future be the host of other file managers, as it is now the host of other media players. Tavris 00:27, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What about orthodox file managers (see OFM) such as Total Commander? Personally I use Total Commander all the time on my Windows box, and will add the program to this article once I find the time for it.
Yes, most users of any platform just stick with the defaults.  But that is sad and bad!  Other file managers have many potential advantages to offer.  Read about OFMs to find out more.69.87.200.120 19:48, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I don't think platform has anything to do with use of alternate file managers. If you have a quick google session, I think you'll be amazed by the number of alternate filemanagers (both pay, and free) which are available for Windows and even OS X.  This is deffinitely a useful article, although I have to think it would be more useful if it were broken up by OS with special mention given to cross-platform file managers.  Most users are going to be looking for a comparison of file managers for their particular platform. --Jaykul 15:14, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rather meaningless? 

message: Windows Explorer is listed as a "no column view" right now, but I'm unsure what that layout mode even means. Windows Explorer definitely natively supports a column view of the kind of the output of *nix 'ls' or MS-DOS 'dir' commands anyway, and it also supports columns of icons, if that's what's spoken of. -- Jugalator 08:14, August 2, 2005 (UTC)
: Can someone please explain "list view", "column view" and "groups"? -- Peter 13:01, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  List view is all of the files displayed in some sort of list. Column view is when different columns are different directories, meaning The first column could be Documents the second School Documents, the third 2004 School Documents etc... Groups are when instead of files just being a list there are groupings. That is, you can group files by kind or size. --Ctachme 20:38, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Manager Views 

message: I dont know about the Gnome or KDE file managers, but compression on Finderis not handled by the file manager, slideshow and printing pictures are not handled by Finder or Explorer, but by external applications. Compressed folders in Explorer are really not part of explorer but an add-in DLL microsoft provides.
:Nautilus and Konqueror most likely just use another tool, too.  So the category should be fine. ¦ Reisio 00:14, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Basic features 

message: Well, I think that in this comparision someone has ignored well known Total Commander file manager. It could be inserted into this comparision. Hołek ҉ 17:00, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: ...um, read the section immediately above this one. ¦ Reisio 19:39, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Total Commander]] 

message: Could we add a comparison to indicate which file managers are capable of manipulating ADS Streams (for security reasons)?
:::—gorgan_almighty 14:57, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Go ahead. ¦ Reisio 20:58, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: LOL I would. I know Windows Explorer can't but I'm not sure about the others.  It doesn't really apply to Linux file managers. —gorgan_almighty 15:20, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually Windows Explorer has limited stream handling capability. This does not extend to actually manipulate arbitrary streams but meta info like author, keywords, etc. are stored in streams so that I wouldn't say that Explorer does not have any stream handling at all. Joey-das-WBF 18:23, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ADS Streams 

message: Could someone add in Dired? I'm not familiar with this whole table system. --maru  (talk) contribs 23:59, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Start by adding such to the "List of file managers" article -- that is easy!  Then maybe someday someone will feel like doing all the work to add it to the Comparison article.  (It is not just the format that is the problem -- it is a great deal of work to track down all the information to fill out the tables.) 69.87.204.177 23:47, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition 

message: Certain fields are uncommon among other file managers and some of them are not defined:
(Manager views) Details + Thumbs;
(File features) File coloring filter, File selection filter, File and folder reports, ACL;
(Browse Features) Branch Sizes;
(Search features) Boolean (nesting levels), Fuzzy logic
They serve nothing but to make one or two file managers stand out.
They should be removed, or at least only append as notes.
::+1. And even worse: I have absolutely no idea what "File coloring filter [7]" and "File and folder reports [7]" shall do/mean. At [7] there is no hint. IMHO delete this stuff.
:::"report" in XYplorer just means configurable file lists. In Servant Salamander, this is called "make file list" (CTRL+M). Any other hints?
I don't agree. If a file manager has a killer feature, that few or none other file manager can offer, this is a valuable information for the Wikipedia reader. It's not the fault of a good file manager if others are less performant or offer fewer features. --boarders paradise (talk) 09:53, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you, but this is in direct opposition to TEDickey who states below that unless a majority of the file managers offer the feature, the feature is not encyclopedic.  See the proposal below about adding a column to compare the ability to examine a flattened directory structure. Skelliam (talk) 22:15, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertisement 

message: At least in the case of the Finder, all the file systems listed as being supported by the Finder are really supported at the Darwin layer and the "mount by URL" mechanism - the Finder, to a large degree, doesn't know it's dealing with an NFS or SMB or WebDAV or FTP or AFP file system.  The Windows Explorer works the same way for SMB and, if you have an NFS client installed, NFS.
Konqueror might do that with userland kioslaves (although, given that Linux and FreeBSD both have NFS and SMB client support at the kernel's VFS layer, one would hope they could browse mounted NFS and SMB servers transparently), and Nautilus might use userland GNOME VFS for that; I can't speak for the other file managers. Guy Harris 06:53, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Network protocols 

message: Does Konqueror actually support column view? It has something called "multicolumn view," but this appears to be just like "icon view" except oriented horizontally rather than vertically. Theshibboleth 02:01, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Konqueror column view? 

message: What's happening with the merge of these two articles? I can't see much point in having both linked on Nautilus file manager and I'd to know what's happening? - Motor (talk) 15:06, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: List/Comparison

message: This article should not be merged with the List of file managers or Orthodox file manager article.  The List article is simple and inviting for anyone to contribute to.  This Comparison article is almost all tables.  Very valuable.  Very awkward -- very daunting to contribute to.  It is also difficult for the reader to get the information they want, because it is spread out in multiple tables, but there seems no help for that.  Until there is a WYSIWYG editor readily available for this article, many potential contributors will be scared off.  We need to make sure they have other easier places to make some contributions.  (All I want to know about is the best opensource multiplatform currently supporting OFM.  But that is leading me into many hours of research, trying to update the relevant web of Wikipedia articles.)69.87.200.120 20:02, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: -- Vor0nwe 21:43, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Do Not Merge

message: The two articles serve a different purpose; linking to each other ought to be enough.
: -- Vor0nwe 21:43, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: I concur.

message: It should remain as is. You have "File Manager" --> "List of file manager" --> "Comparison of file managers".  These are individual entities. I am all about organizing things and having all of this on one page is too much.
3 to 0 Vote
--Rilloyd 04:41, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: I concur

message: Merging the articles would be inappropriate. Separating large articles into multiple articles is part of the technical writing process. --Goa103 16:55, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: I concur

message: The Operating system support table could be reduced to just three columns.  The Windows Mobile column could be deleted, and footnotes added for FMs that support this.  Linux/BSD/Unix could be one column.  If any case arises where "yes" or "no" would not suffice, notes could be added appropriate to that special case.  (It may seem like there is no good reason to simplify this table, but the bigger the tables are, the more afraid people will be of contributing.  Or adding a column.)69.87.200.120 20:27, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Really?  The item for Tux Commander asserts that it runs on Linux, "BSD", and "Unix", but if I go to the development page on the Tux Commander Web site it appears to indicate that it requires Kylix or, at least, some Pascal compiler - if it requires Kylix, it probably requires Linux binary compatibility in the OS in order to support building it and possibly to support running it.  Or would that be a case where there'd be a "only if you have x86 and Linux binary compatibility" footnote?  Guy Harris 21:29, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Operating system support table Simplification

message: To what does the "Filesystem support" column in the table in the "Extensibility" section refer?  It shouldn't be used to refer to the ability of the OS core to be extended with new file system types, as those aren't file manager plugins, they're general file system plugins that add file system support to all applications, including the file manager - i.e., modules that plug in to the virtual file system layers in Solaris, OS X, Linux, Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT, etc. aren't file manager plugins.
It should, instead, refer to what I infer are called "shell namespace extensions" in the Windows Explorer.  Given that, the answer for the Finder is arguably "no", unless there's a documented and supported mechanism for adding plugins of that sort to the Finder or third parties have figured out how to do it and offer extensions of that sort.  In addition, if KIO slaves are considered extensions of that sort, the answer for Konqueror is arguably "yes", although they plug into KIO rather than specifically into Konqueror, so one might argue they're closer to core OS VFS plugins than file manager plugins. Guy Harris 22:00, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extensibility and file system plugins 

message: We need good tools for working with large tables.  This article is basically one giant table, of dozens of rows and dozens of columns, broken into pieces.  Typical readers are interested in comparing a few of those rows and columns.  It is currently very awkward to do that.  Any programmers out there want to tackle this? 69.87.204.76 14:57, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table Tools Needed 

message: (Repeating and extending an unanswered question from above) "Paste clipboard as file": What does this mean? Having 20 files in clipboard and pasting them? I guess all support this. Or having some file content (eg some piece of picture or text) and then creating a file and directly pasting the cclipboard content into that file? Who can do this? Windows Explorer e.g. cannot but has a "yes" in that column. Hmmm...
--Pollin Fritic 15:38, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paste clipboard as file? 

message: I'm afraid I only have personal experience with Windows Explorer out of all of these, but even just that there seem to be a number of possibe problems:
*Out of all of the file managers, only WE is listed as not having file preview.  Since WE does indeed have file preview for images, pdf documents, MS Office documents, and probably much more, I can only assume there is some specific list of filetypes that the file manager must be able to preview to qualify for a 'yes' in the table, which WE fails?  If so, could someone produce this list; and preferably put it in a footnote in the article?
*WE is listed as a question mark for ACLs.   xplorer2, on the other hand, is listed as 'Yes', with the footnote "Via system File Properties dialog, NTFS-only".  Since this is absolutely identical to Windows Explorer (with the caveat that the options have to be enabled first in consumer version of Widnows, but this takes only a few seconds), should this not be filled in?
*WE is listed as 'no' to a synchronizer.  Explorer Briefcase, anyone?  Been part of Windows since 95, I believe.
*What's the difference between a 'Basic metadata search' and an 'All metadata search'?  I.e. what metadata is searched in the latter but not in the former?  The article on Windows search mentions metadata searching, but doesn't say what if anything is excluded.
*And talking about the article on windows search, it says that it "allows users to add multiple filters to continually refine search results (Such as "File contains the word 'example'")".  And yet WE is listed as 'no' to "Refined searches"?
*Often the headings either don't specify exactly what criteria they're using, or else are just ambiguous.  For example, what does Fuzzy Logic mean with reference to file managers?  The wiki page on Fuzzy logic doesn't help much, and a search for 'fuzzy logic File managers' on Google returns this article in first place.  Explanatory footnotes would be helpful.
Sorry if this list seems somewhat Microsoft-centric; WE is just the only one I have any experience with, aside from a little time using Nautilus in Ubuntu.  I'll correct some of these now, but others (e.g. basic vs all metadata searching) I'll leave to someone who knows more about that particular area.  Thanks!  -- Simxp 20:16, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: With regards to fuzzy logic, I share your feelings. The term should be explained in the context of file managers. --boarders paradise (talk) 09:56, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Errors and ambiguities 

message: can someone add emacs? http://xahlee.org/emacs/file_management.html Xah Lee 12:25, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: question: Isn't it Dired rather than Emacs? Because I have the uncanny feeling that it is Dired which provides the file managing capability of Emacs... Bert Racoon | Life is not a dream, it's a nightmare 13:26, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  emacs 

message: Power File by Canyon Software is also a great file manager for Windows.  It has a built in Zip function as well as viewer.
Dickhi 23:39, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, and so passes Wikipedia:Notability; write an article for it.  Once it has an article, then someone will integrate it into the comparison table. -- simxp (talk) 15:05, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Power File 

message: Please fill in its features.--Dojarca 00:32, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added [[DOS Shell]] 

message: OpenGEM, Seal, Cube, Norton Desktop for DOS, Norton Desktop for Windows, CDE.--Dojarca 00:37, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  To add 

message: I think the gallery should consist of free screenshots (those made of free software), as modern free software file managers are able to do what screenshots of non-free software currently depict there. -Mardus 13:26, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Comparison of file managers#_note-PathTab|"Manager views" and "File feature" examples gallery]] 

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message: are you sure? anyway it's article says it's closed source shareware, and as far as i know that is it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.140.2.6 (talk) 09:59, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The upcoming Unicode-enabled version, 1.8, has been made open-source under the revised BSD license. The article has been already updated to reflect that. --Vladimir (talk) 03:38, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  FAR Manager reported as freeware and open source 

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message: The cross computability table shows that Dolphin is only available on Unix systems, but I'm running it quite happily here at work on Windows XP using the KDE for Windows project.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dsmith1974@googlemail.com (talk • contribs) 09:59, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: please note that Dolphin should be dis-ambiguated with respect to the Gamecube/Wii emulator of the same name
 — vulcan_ (talk · contribs) 09:33, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dolphin is available for Windows 

message: Shouldn't PCMan File Manager be included, as the default file manager for LXDE? 86.136.248.127 (talk) 23:48, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. In all tables, but i didn't fill in all the cells. Have at it. --Jerome Potts (talk) 00:30, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  PCManFM? 

message: File manager	DOS	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux	BSD	Unix	AmigaOS	OS/2 & eCS	OpenVMS
PCManFM     	   	       	        	     	   	    	       	          	
Mac OS X is POSIX compliant. 
5.172.255.173 (talk) 20:36, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mac OS X 

message: I think this feature is important, especially on *nix systems, where the file extensions is "optional".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eprst Lalaikin (talk • contribs) 22:39, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ability of use file magic in comparation? 

message: Table Browsing features claim that Konqueror has functionality Find-as-you-type (Type-ahead find). I have checked it ( you need to press / and next type) and it does not work. It only works in  web browser mode of Konqueror. That is completely different part of Konqueror not related to File Browser. If somebody else have different information please provide link.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Omdiv (talk • contribs) 09:28, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not existing find-as-you-type of Konqueror 

message: I think one of the important features is full keyboard control. Some file managers support it (like FAR manager) and some don't or do in a very inconvenient way (like Windows Explorer). It should be reflected in one of the comparison tables.
Podlec (talk) 15:44, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keyboard control 

message: Looking for a Windows Explorer replacement, I found several that had all the features I needed, but no UNDO. I think this essential feature deserves a column in one of the tables...
Some file managers without UNDO:
    - CubicExplorer
    - FreeCommander
    - UltraExplorer
    - MuCommander
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.177.165.4 (talk) 19:23, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undo 

message: I cannot find WinNc in the comparison list. I made a small wiki on it on [Winnc]. WinNc is active since 1995 and is still alive. Could this be added? Ramon Speets (talk) 19:26, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: WinNc article has failed to meet Wikipedia:Notability requirements. That's why. Fleet Command (talk) 20:01, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  WInNc 

message: GNOME Commander is missing from the Search features & Extensibility tables. Thunar is missing from those two, & also Network protocols & File features. That's just a couple of examples. Are there differing unstated criteria for inclusion in each table, or have the tables evolved that way through ad-hoc additions? HuwG 203.208.87.51 (talk) 07:13, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Included file managers not consistent between tables 

message: Might suggest including a column titled "Drag and drop behaviour" or abbreviation thereof. 
Options being Copy, Move, Selectable, or Idiosyncratic. (Windows Explorer is Idiosyncratic if you use leftmouse, Selectable if you use rightmouse) 
A lot of work to compile this info, I know, but very useful when selecting a filemanager on basis of useability. --Anteaus (talk) 19:58, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Column suggestion: Drag and drop behaviour ? 

message: Perhaps it isn't important to most, but I switched to XYplorer because of the program's ability to move files that the normal filemanager that comes with Windows isn't capable of moving due to long name support (or lack thereof -- in the case of Win32 systems.)
Is this known as something else and I just missed it in the charts, or is it just a "function oversight"?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.231.59.48 (talk) 04:47, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Long name support 

message: Why are there various parts of this page that are absolutely horrid to use? Because the editor(s) Have not felt the need to use the same date format or naming convention throughout the entire page. 
This page needs some serious work. I'm not going to do it and have all my work be removed because I stepped on someone's toes.
I also don't know much about file managers - this is why I was *trying* to read this wiki article. 
Honestly, I think there should just be a new article - Comparison of Modern File Managers, things that have been updated, used and are quality products from the last 10 or so years.  Yes, *Commander is a nice, nifty non-graphical file manager, but when I'm shopping for a replacement for Windows 8's craptastic Explorer, I want something that's an honest replacement, not something I would use on an IBM Peanut. ~AeSix 71.100.236.237 (talk) 08:06, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conventions for naming and date stamps 

message: I have just added rows in Table 1 for Xfolder and DCommander (Mac OS X apps) but do not have time at the moment to update the rest of the tables. I will get back in here to update the rest of the tables soon so please no one undo my edits
thanks
 — vulcan_ (talk · contribs) 09:21, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomplete entries should be tolerated ... for a while 

message: This filer manager doesn't seem to have been included. --109.189.231.146 (talk) 12:47, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Freecommander 

message: Please add double commander, here is the link: http://doublecmd.sourceforge.net
It follows Total Commander only this is an open source port for windows/linux/mac os, quite stable and usable. --79.113.75.29 (talk) 23:31, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double commander 

message: I think you can add MyCommander to the list. I don`t know if any commnader can beat it compared to its size and features... http://myco.yonan.ro/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.9.8.147 (talk) 09:54, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  MyCommander 

message: ZTree is the only file manager (that I am aware of) that supports viewing and manipulating files in an entire directory branch as a flat list of files.  This is an extremely powerful feature that, once you understand it, is difficult to live without.  Some simple tasks that ZTree makes ridiculously easy with this concept:
* Show me all Excel files in a filesystem directory branch that were modified in the last three days
* Copy all .txt files in this filesystem branch to a new destination and keep their relative locations intact
* Zip all *.c and *.h files in this entire filesystem branch and keep relative location intact
* Search only *.c files in an entire filesystem branch for a specific string and tag the files where that string was found.  Now with only the set of files where the string was found (doesn't matter in which directories they live), I want to search for another string.
I think it might be useful to add another column to represent this feature.  If there are others out there that can do this, especially for Linux, I want to know what they are.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skelliam (talk • contribs) 14:37, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: If the feature isn't used by a sizable fraction of the total, then it's not encyclopedic. TEDickey (talk) 17:52, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree that a feature needs to be implemented by a sizable fraction of the total to be encyclopedic.  Citation?  I found out that Double Commander offers this, and Beyond Compare offers something like this as well.  See a view in direct opposition to your statement above under Advertisement, where it is discussed whether to remove columns that describe esoteric features.  The columns are still there. Skelliam (talk) 22:15, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flatten directory structure 

message: Hi! Please let me know if it is possible to add information regarding new App - Commander One to this page? You can find more information regarding this app in Eltima's Press Kit here http://mac.eltima.com/press/file-manager-press.pdf
Please inform me what should I do to add this information.
Thanks!DashaG11 (talk) 11:58, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Start by creating a topic for the program, using independent, verifiable reliable sources which demonstrate its notability.  A useful comparison would not use any information which cannot easily be found in the sources used for the topic. TEDickey (talk) 13:18, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commander one - New Dual Pane File Manager for Mac 

message: I added topic, like you said.
Here it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_One
What's next?DashaG11 (talk) 14:29, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commander One 

message: It is confusing that Microsoft's File Manager (MFM) & Windows Explorer (W.E., now called File Explorer (F.E.)) both say that they are "Part of Windows" in the Cost column of the General Information table.  Those 2 F.M.s aren't available together in any version of Win. & only W.E./F.E. is available in the current version of Win.  I suggest the 1st & last version (instead of dates since each version have multiple release dates) of Win. that included MFM (3.0? - NT 3.51?) & W.E./F.E. (Win. 95?-10) be added as a suffix to the respective Cost fields for those 2 F.M.s. 104.178.189.70 (talk) 19:13, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  File Managers that are "Part of Windows" 

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message: Could somebody more knowledgeable add Explorer++? That article even links to this comparison page, but itself isn't included in the comparison. If nobody else wants to, I'll see if I can get around to it soon. Leostaley (talk) 04:32, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add Explorer++? 

message: There is no mention here of file managers for Android, but several exist.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.114.146.117 (talk) 15:41, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Android 

message: I've been using FreeCommander for a few years now.  I've added information about it to a couple of tables so far, but there is still plenty of information about it I still need to add to describe it.  I'm actually surprised it wasn't listed. --Bushido Hacks (talk) 03:22, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  FreeCommander 

message: So far as I can determine, Midnight Commander is not available for DOShttps://midnight-commander.org/wiki/Binaries, as shown in the table.  Not sure why DOS support is listed.  Has a DOS version existed in the past? 67.169.136.253 (talk) 21:30, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Midnight Commander not DOS-compatible 

message: Because some File Managers in the article are discontinued or no longer in active development, it would be very helpful to easily know which ones. One way to identify them would be to change the background color of their names in the tables. They shouldn't automatically be deleted because they may still be in use & are useful for comparison to newer FMs.
Comparison of email clients has "Clients listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.".
Comparison of web browsers has "Browsers listed on a light purple background are discontinued.".--2600:1700:B6F0:A200:3181:DDF7:A730:F0DD (talk) 05:37, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discontinued or no longer in active development 

message: This is apparently a non-notable product.  Some investigation of this found only advertisements by its developers. TEDickey (talk) 12:50, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Documents by Readdle 

message: The article suggests that the program is still in the alpha stage, while it is neither alpha nor beta. I have been using the program for years, and early versions did have some issues, but even in 2016 the program was pretty mature.
The first release, not marked as beta, was 1.0.7. Currently, I use the version 1.0.8 - every day, very extensively, for serious works and cannot see any problems. The program seems to be extremely mature and stable. The current official stable version is 1.0.9 (as of 2023-01-04) -  see here and here. Unfortunately, I do not know how to change it in Wikidata. 85.193.215.210 (talk) 14:54, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double Commander - neither alpha nor beta.