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Re: Total Commander

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Post by out_of_protocol »

BodyCulture wrote: post #10

Still looking for a good replacement on Mac, the software mentioned by this site all are lacking important features.

Double 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://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/site/eng/snapshots.php

P.P.S. Screenshots

https://r2.pocketmoon.me/upload/2023-09-01_2023-09-01---11.2...

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Re: Total Commander

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Post by dvh »

nanna wrote: post #8
hereforcomments wrote: post #4

It'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=%2...

Fascinating. 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

I think it's because it resembles Norton commander

Re: Total Commander

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Post by andrei_says_ »

BodyCulture wrote: post #10

Still looking for a good replacement on Mac, the software mentioned by this site all are lacking important features.

I’ve been happy with nimble commander - https://magnumbytes.com/

Available on the Mac App Store - recommend getting the pro version if you need the features. Actively developed.

Re: Total Commander

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Post by qwerty456127 »

I 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.

Re: Total Commander

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Post by blkhawk »

I 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/

Nowadays I use Krusader and Linux.

Re: Total Commander

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Post by axytol »

I 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.

Re: Total Commander

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Post by Daril »

Very 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/

But ... I am not able not to use Midnight Commander ...

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