> It's interesting to see the "decline" of secondary file managers on Windows and probably Linux systems I would credit that with actually functional OS-level

> It's interesting to see the "decline" of secondary file managers on Windows and probably Linux systems I would credit that with actually functional OS-level search (Mac OSX 10.5, Win7). Why bother sorting stuff hierarchically when you can dump it all in a /Downloads /Movies /Music folder and let search find it for you? It probably also coincides with the rise of mobile devices where the paradigm is app-based not file-based.