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Total Commander
- taraparo 3y agoI prefer Free Commander https://freecommander.com/ https://freecommander.com/ and even donated for it.
- Jazgot 3y agoI love it, recently after many many years of using it I finally bought it. On linux closest what I can get is Krusader.
- murkt 3y agoI’ve used it for a long time, probably more than a decade (switched to Macs in 2010). Even in the 00s it had so many features. I think the first time I’ve encountered regular expressions was in a mass rename tool in Total Commander.
- hereforcomments 3y agoIt's extremely popular in Hungary, almost everyone has it installed. I've been using in for at least 20 years. When I moved to the UK 10 years ago I was quite surprised that nobody knew it. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&q=%2Fm%2F03sgcn&hl=en-GB https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&q=%2...
- nanna 3y agoFascinating. I used it in the '00s and would never have thought to try it again. Why don't out think it's so popular in Hungary? And Cuba, Czechia, Slovakia...? UTF-8 capabilities? I'm wondering it if is similar to Emacs Dired
- dvh 3y agoI think it's because it resembles Norton commander
- deely3 3y agoOr Volkov Commander.
- jahav 3y agoTwo panels + fast keyboard navigation across directories is big for me. I like the overview, speed and simplicity. File Explorer is just ... nope. I am sure there are other programs, like Double Commander or maybe Salamander Commander if it still exists, but this is what I settled on. My most used features are: Archives: * Comparison of files in Zip file/directories, just go to the zip file and do synchronize directory to see differences * Edit file and save it to zip after modification - no need to copy to temp location, it does it for you * Pack/unpack are common Lister * Easy switch from hexa to text, fast, lightweight. * Checksums - create and verify
- hereforcomments 3y agoI think in Cuba, Belarus, Uzbekistan... "total commander" has a different meaning :D I don't think it's UTF-8 as Windows has been able to handle non-English alphabet letters for ages. I don't not know whether it has any specific, location related reason. I can work a lot faster with it than with File Explorer. It's like the Bud Spencer and Terence Hill movies. They are extremely popular here, in Germany, Austria, Italy but the rest of the world have not even heard about them. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F018gm&hl=en-GB https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0... We even have a statue of him at a frequented area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Spencer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Spencer
- yread 3y agoTotal/Windows Commander with plugins is the best. What plugins do you use?
- unixhero 3y agoThe ones bundled with Total Commander Ultima Prime https://tcup.pl https://tcup.pl
- growt 3y agoFor all the MacOS dual pane file-manager fans: I tried them all and only recently discovered Marta (https://marta.sh/ https://marta.sh/) which is now my favourite file manager!
- eviks 3y agoIndeed, its ability to do simple navigation with single alpha homerow keys is alone almost worth all the missing functionality (and then there are also programmable extensions) Unfortunately its pace of development is very slow :(
- joehogans 3y agoThanks wil give it a try
- princevegeta89 3y agoThere is also QSpace btw... it's pretty solid
- rswail 3y agoThanks for this. Been looking for a simple key-driven replacement for the Finder that I can keep open. Tweaked a few of the options for fonts and opening terminals and things and it's great (and fast as well).
- replwoacause 3y agoWhat about Nimble Commander (https://magnumbytes.com https://magnumbytes.com)? I’ve been using it for years and it’s great. Did you try it and if so, how does it compare to Marta?
- darek 3y agoYes, Nimble Commander is wonderful. The developer took a lot of care and created a powerful and very fast tool. As a long time user of Total Commander on Windows I'd be crying sad tears if I had to limit myself to the basics that Finder provides on macOS.
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- exitb 3y agoI wonder how big of an effort is to keep it compatible with every Windows version since 95.
- BodyCulture 3y agoStill looking for a good replacement on Mac, the software mentioned by this site all are lacking important features.
- out_of_protocol 3y agoDouble Commander is the closest. Basically a clone of TC. Not as polished, still good. Beware, there multiple different builds for mac, some are good, some are bad P.S. i don't remember which one is better https://sourceforge.net/projects/doublecmd/files/macOS/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/doublecmd/files/macOS/ https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/site/eng/snapshots.php https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/site/eng/snapshots.php P.P.S. Screenshots https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2023-09-01_2023-09-01---11.20.56.png https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2023-09-01_2023-09-01---11.2... https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2023-09-01_2023-09-01---11.21.42.png https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2023-09-01_2023-09-01---11.2... https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2023-09-01_2023-09-01---11.22.23.png https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2023-09-01_2023-09-01---11.2... https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2023-09-01_2023-09-01---11.22.38.png https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2023-09-01_2023-09-01---11.2...
- andrei_says_ 3y agoI’ve been happy with nimble commander - https://magnumbytes.com/ https://magnumbytes.com/ Available on the Mac App Store - recommend getting the pro version if you need the features. Actively developed.
- coldtea 3y agoThere are several, one I've used which is kinda similar but not 100% the same is ForkLift
- eviks 3y agoMarta with single key home-row navigation and other commands is the best Mac file manager, but it's also lacking important features :(
- sashk 3y agoThere are couple which will have two panels by default, but in my opinion, ForkLift is very native macOS commander-like app -- https://binarynights.com https://binarynights.com
- blkhawk 3y agoI tried Total Commander while I was still using Windows but in the end settled on Servant Salamander (later renamed to Altap Salamander). Somehow I liked it better haptically than Total Commander at the time. Sadly development of it stopped a few years ago and it is now free for everybody. Download it here: https://www.altap.cz/ https://www.altap.cz/ Nowadays I use Krusader and Linux.
- ihateolives 3y ago> Servant Salamander Does not support Unicode in filenames. They had plans for it like 10 years ago but they never actually got around to do it. I ditched Salamander for Freecommander years ago primarily for this reason. Freecommander is in active development as well. https://freecommander.com/en/summary/ https://freecommander.com/en/summary/
- blkhawk 3y agoOuch - yes I was torn if i wanted to mention that. 10 years isn't cutting it they announced it as the next feature in 2005/6
- qwerty456127 3y agoI tried many commander-style file managers on many OSes. Some of them deliberately imitating Total Commander. But none of them really feels like the original. Some even look better and can be more powerful in some aspects yet I don't really feel that comfortable using them. Many are tolerable though. In my oppinion Total Commander is the number-one best and most useful computer program ever made and the best UX. And yes, despite spending years using Norton Commander when I was a child, I always liked Total Commander (Windows Commander back in the days) better than the Far Manager - another alternative which imitated Norton Commander more closely and is considered more powerful by some people.
- wiz21c 3y agoAh Norton Commander... I was wondering if someone would pop up the father of them all... Fond memories of that blue screen :-)
- Daril 3y agoI cannot live without Midnight Commander !
- qwerty456127 3y agoI use it a lot when I have to operate on files in a terminal but it feels limited, inflexible and stagnant. Lack of background operations support is particulrly annoying. In my oppinion they should have made it more customizable and extensible, e.g. through a Python or a Lisp plug-in API or something like that. I can even imagine it being more powerful than Total Commander is whle keeping similarly user-friendly. One cool thing about a GUI file manager are file type icons which indicate a file type concisely without the ugliness and ADHD-nightmare of painting each file name in a different colour (the way terminal-based file managers do) but this can probably be solved using Unicode emojis modern terminals mostly support.
- axytol 3y agoI use this on Windows because of the dual pane layout which allows me to easily move/copy files around, but also do other nice stuff like file diffs, though probably other apps out there can also do these things. It's also preety snappy when dealing with zip archives unlike Windows file explorer. To be noted this app is also available on Android, comes in very handy and it also has plugins for network storage shares such as SMB. I got bitten in the past by other file managers on Android that turned into adware infested cesspools.
- Daril 3y agoVery useful, I bought it years ago and used it on Windows. I've been using only Linux for about 10 years now, but I'd like to use Total Commander on Linux. Double Commander is open source, cross-platform and written with Lazarus / FPC : https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/ https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/ But ... I am not able not to use Midnight Commander ...
- haspok 3y agoTry Krusader!
- Daril 3y agoThanks for the suggestion, but I am on Linux Mint with Cinnamon (and evaluating to move to Debian testing with Gnome or XFCE when the Wayland support will be available). Installing Krusader would fill my GTK based system with KDE dependencies ... I'm not sure it is a good idea. It looks very well done in any case !
- sneak 3y agoFWIW, the KDE support apps are excellent and disk space is cheap; although I am a KDE user whenever I am on a non-KDE system I invariably end up installing a bunch of them shortly. The dependencies just sit on your disk not doing anything when they're not used, it's not worth having apprehension over installing them unless you are extremely short on disk space or something. You do yourself a disservice by avoiding them.
- Daril 3y agoJust installed, many thanks for the suggestion !
- rob74 3y agoI switched to Ubuntu recently and have tried to find an alternative to Konsole ever since (I heavily used the unlimited scrollback together with the search function, which is a feature most terminal emulators lack), and finally settled on WezTerm, which is pretty good, but still has some rough edges. Maybe I should just install Konsole?
- stef-13013 3y agoDoubleCmd is amazing to... (and cross platform)
- unixhero 3y agoUsed it since 1995
- magnat 3y agoFirst program I have paid for, and after 20 years I still use it every day.
- xpil 3y agoSame here. Best piece of software, ever. Period.
- phero_cnstrcts 3y agoEver since I’m not using windows anymore I just want Directory Opus to be available on Linux.
- gapan 3y agoThere is worker: http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker/ http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker/
- Dan_Sylveste 3y agoDirectory Opus has evolved far far beyond that.
- eviks 3y agoor on a Mac, it's the single best file manager app out there!
- 0xbs0d 3y agoIt's been my default file manager since the Amiga days of the early 90s. I do love TC and have been using it at work a lot on and off but DOpus is forever.
- rlv-dan 3y agoI've always liked the Windows Explorer Treeview+Listview style file managers (XYplorer is vey good), but for heavy workloads, nothing beats Total Commander!
- RetroTechie 3y agoImho tree-view or 'single pane' style file managers are okay if you're just browsing. Open a file here or there, move something to elsewhere in the directory tree, etc. For more serious work I always gravitate towards 2-pane file managers like TC (#1 favourite on Windows, which for me is back in the stone age).
- steve1977 3y agoCould you guys give some examples of “heavy workloads” or “serious work”?
- viler 3y agoFro me, it's things like comparing directories, filename search-and-replace/multi-rename, copying/syncing (locally or over ftp) with editable queues, etc.
- neoneye2 3y agoAI training data, can be thousands of files.
- steve1977 3y agoAnd what are you doing with these files?
- neoneye2 3y agoShameless self promotion of my own AI experiments. Around 110000 files checked out related to the OEIS database. The project is open source here: https://loda-lang.org/ https://loda-lang.org/ I'm experimenting training a vision transformer with ARC tasks. There are 800 tasks, and each task augmented yields around 10000 files. However my ViT code cannot solve any ARC tasks, but my non-ViT code solves 6 ARC tasks. https://lab42.global/arcathon/leaderboard/ https://lab42.global/arcathon/leaderboard/
- _giorgio_ 3y agoScrolling a pane is "slow", or simple jumpy. Not enjoyable at all. Plus... 37 euros????
- actionfromafar 3y agoI feel compelled to mention Directory Opus^0 whenever Total Commander comes up. 0: https://www.gpsoft.com.au/ https://www.gpsoft.com.au/
- replwoacause 3y agoI tried it 7 years ago and just clicked your link now to see it is still on the same version (12). I wasn’t expecting that. I wonder why?
- MikusR 3y agoWhen I tried Dopus didn't even allow to browse inside archives as folders. Has that changed?
- coldtea 3y agoIt's about mad efficiency, not enjoyable UI
- roselan 3y agoAs many here I'm in love with Total Commander for a long time and it was my first purchase. I find equally amazing that it's a one man shop. Christian Ghisler created, maintains and supports this application for 30 years (initial release: 29th Sep 1993). I have boundless admiration for this kind of dedication.
- jahav 3y agoCheck out the full changes file, it has dates of changes: https://www.ghisler.com/history1100.txt https://www.ghisler.com/history1100.txt Even after 30 years there are still things to fix pretty much every day. Maintenance is really endless task
- blue1 3y agoA question for experts on the matter, is Sunrise Commander (OFM for Emacs) on par with the the programs cited in this thread?
- ceeam 3y agoYes, absolutely based and essential. Especially once you learn all the Alt-Shift-Enter, Ctrl-M, etc. Also, recently learned that there's mc on scoop: https://scoop.sh/#/apps?q=mc https://scoop.sh/#/apps?q=mc
- AugustusCrunch 3y agoI've done things that people thought were magic. It was TC. There are about twenty similar programs, all descended from the Norton Commander. Any one of them is enormously better than the file managers that come with most OSs, especially windows. Ive read estimates that say you're about four times as productive if you use on, and I think that may be very conservative. There are a lot of things you can't do without one. A friend worked at a place where management disabled the search function in windows, probably because people were getting stuff done. I set him up with TC, which has its own search. The IT lead at one place I worked said, "I don't like that program. it makes things easier than they should be." TC is the best of its kind. It's so good I paid for it. (I've had twenty years of free upgrades.)
- BelleOfTheBall 3y agoI remember once I needed to rename a bunch of files to a template similar to NewName_001, upwards of 100. TC lets you just set a name pattern and follows it, which meant I did it in about 10 seconds. My colleague took 10 minutes and a lot of groaning about "why isn't there a better way?".
- sdtransier 3y ago(This is just to help macOS Finder users, not to say, "Well, Finder can do it too!!) You can select multiple files in Finder > Right-click on one of them > Rename. That'll bring up a modal with some bulk-rename options, including a name pattern. It's not intuitive, but was really cool when I found it for the first time!
- edanm 3y agoThat's awesome! I use a Mac-based software similar to TC (after years of using TC on Windows), and always use it for bulk renaming. I had no idea I could do the same with Finder, I'll definitely take advantage of that in the future!
- justsomehnguy 3y agoThat works similar in Windows Explorer
- anta40 3y agoI still use Total Commander on my Android phones/tablets. For MacOS, the closest ones are: - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/commander-one-file-manager/id1035236694?mt=12 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/commander-one-file-manager/id1... - https://github.com/elfmz/far2l https://github.com/elfmz/far2l
- Shorel 3y agoTotal Commander lacks many useful features from Norton Commander. The preview panel for example. There was a Windows version of Norton Commander and it used all available registered Windows preview handlers. I am using Double Commander instead. And I can use it on Linux as well.
- coldtea 3y agoI haven't used it for decades, but when I did use it, it is amazing how efficient it is. And I mean the whole legacy of such stuff, all the way to Norton Commander under DOS. Don't remember if there was prior art to that. Miguel de Icaza (of Gnome/Mono fame), also started, way before Gnome, by doing a Norton Commander clone: Midnight Commander
- eviks 3y agoHas it added a must have undo feature? I remember the author of TC had a weird tak that undo gives you "a false feeling of security" as the reason
- sampa 3y agoI've stopped using NC and derivatives since Windows 98 (but in DOS it was a must-have), but if somebody looks for nowadays alternative for Linux, try Far2L https://github.com/elfmz/far2l https://github.com/elfmz/far2l
- yankput 3y agoI was looking recently for an application on Windows that can show me simply a content of EML file (Outlook mail format). I found only TC and Thunderbird; but Thunderbird started showing me stuff about setting a mail and address and everything, TC just opened it.
- nonameking2026 3y agoGreat product
- lproven 3y agoWhen U moved to Czechia in 2014, I was amazed to find everyone used this app. In my 2nd job, the company had a site licence and it was preinstalled on all PCs. I'd not used or seen a 2-pane file manager since about 1993 and I never missed them. It's ubiquitous in central Europe and most people sneer at OS file managers. I was amazed and baffled. I am perfectly capable of using them and occasionally did in the late 1980s, but I don't normally use them and have no need. My Czech friends and colleagues are as amazed and baffled as I am by them. I easily do this stuff in the Windows Explorer or Mac Finder, but mostly I work on Linux in Nemo. I can do all this stuff and sometimes I have shown people how and they are amazed that I can do stuff that they think impossible. My overall conclusion is that a lot of FOSS development is driven by people who don't know how to properly use the tools that the OS came with. I keep hearing about "editing at the speed of thought" in Vim and so on. Users have to learn the keystrokes because that's the primary UI. Result, when you know it, it's fast. Well, newsflash. Windows 3 had keystrokes for everything and by Win95 it was very customisable and extensible as well. If you learn to use the keyboard, the entire OS and all apps work as fast as Vim. When I see the many Windows-like desktops for Linux that can't do a vertical taskbar properly (MATE, LXQt, Cinnamon, Enlightenment) then I know they were cloned from Windows by someone who didn't know how to use Windows. When I see a hamburger menu on a computer with a keyboard, I know that that developer didn't know how to use a GUI properly. When I see CSD window decorations, I know that that developer didn't know how to use a windowing GUI properly.
- gumballindie 3y agoThis is a little bit like saying that people wearing different types of trousers do so because they can't all wear the same identical type due to lack of knowledge on how to wear them. People have varying tastes and use cases. To me eveyrthing you described as "proper" in windows looks the way you described linux - done by someone who doesn't know how to properly build an OS ui. I don't understand why someone would even want to use windows explorer with a keyboard. But the beauty of life is that we are free to like whatever we like, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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- zecg 3y agoIt's also a miracle on Android, with SFTP plugin and an integrated media player.
- derAndyG 3y agoOh wow This hits some strange memories My dad installed it on our family PCs back then. I used it through my whole childhood and teens until I moved to MAC. Thanks for sharing
- butz 3y agoBest software program. Period. Used from good old days when it was called "Windows Commander", and, admittedly, first versions were used in unregistered mode. While I have a license now and am legal user of software, unfortunately I'm on Linux now. I would gladly pay again just to be able to use it on Linux as a native application. Sad, that Linux port never took off.
- SevenIron 3y agoEastern European here (Romania) - I am here to give lots and lots of thanks to Christian ! When Norton Commander was not a choice anymore .. Total Commander was the replacement. I can attest that outside of Europe (living in US now) NC/TC is almost unknown. The company I was working for employed a lot of Eastern Europeans - hence we 'lobby' and got 50 licenses for it. To this day, after installing a fresh Windows , TC is the next thing I am installing (followed closely by Notepad++). Personally I cannot browse files (comfortably) without it. Thanks again Christian !
- mdrzn 3y agoBeen using it since the late 90s, and I still use it to this day. Grew up in Total Commander. Thanks Christian Ghisler for this amazing software.