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Sounds like it has some nice features. Bulk rename is one I'd use right away. My biggest gripe ATM with explorer is that it rearranges the tree while it's openi
by intrepidhero 5y ago
Sounds like it has some nice features. Bulk rename is one I'd use right away. My biggest gripe ATM with explorer is that it rearranges the tree while it's opening. At first my favorites are at the top and in focus but about 500ms after opening it moves the cursor down to My Documents, often undoing my first directory selection.
Windows is doing this sort of thing in a number of places for me. It's like someone decided "async is cool!" and no one told them that interrupting the user is bad.
- atoav 5y agoFor renaming of many files I always tended to use this one: https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/ https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/
- mattowen_uk 5y agoThe official Windows Powertoys now include a bulk renamer.
- makeitdouble 5y ago> It's like someone decided "async is cool!" and no one told them that interrupting the user is bad. A ton of application are doing that now. I think it has become the prevalent paradigm in many places, as a bad application of optimistic event handling. I imagine the devs thinking "It will surely load fast enough so it's not an issue", or "we can't block user interaction until everything's loaded, when the files they need might stay displayed at the same place the whole time" etc. It's particularly bad with task managers loading task lists asynchronously, when some of the first items might only be loaded last, and the list continuously moves top and down while it's loading.