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File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

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Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

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Post by sorenjan »

user_7832 wrote: post #36

I’m not sure if this is really the right place to ask, but it’s close enough so I’ll ask anyway - why are there no apparent file explorers that allow simultaneous “multi depth” viewing? For example, if Folder A contains only Subfolders B and C which are both empty, why are there no explorers that show eg 2 boxes called ‘B’ and ‘C’ inside A’s icon/view? If a directly has dozens of empty folders, and 2 subfolders have…

It's not a file explorer so not exactly what you're looking for, but WizTree is good for finding out which folder contains the large files. It's like WinDirStat but much faster.

Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

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Post by xyx0826 »

sorenjan wrote: post #43

Another file explorer option is Files [0], that looks a lot more like the built in Explorer in Windows but with some additional features. [0] https://files.community/

Files looks great but it has performance issues and occasional crashes when I tried it out a few months ago. When going into subfolders, there is a very noticeable subsecond lag which I don’t get from native Explorer. For all complaints of lack of features that Windows File Explorer gets, it’s still a very respectable native GUI app for being Windows’ most used program!

Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

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Post by wpm »

linsomniac wrote: post #25
willaaam wrote: post #11

Please, I beg you dear developer, replace my stupid MacOS finder with your superpowers!

What is the deal with MacOS file dialogs? A couple days ago I was trying to open a project in Cursor, and I click on "home" and my name, and then it has the directories grouped by year created. So I type in the search box, but it's now searching some other context, like the whole system or something? I don't even have tons of files/directories in my home directory "ls | wc -l" gives 36. It's like they designed it whi…

Sounds like it was sorted by “most recent” (not the column, but the view mode).

That said the Open dialog is a sad sack stand in for even the flawed Finder. 20 year Mac user here: I developed the muscle memory to just have a Finder window open to the file I want so I can drag and drop from that into the Open dialog.

Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

If there's a portable version of this I can run on my work computer, I will! (stand-alone version, it's so fast!)

The Windows built-in File Explorer is godawfully slow. Like, slower than I remember it being in the late 90's. Motivation-sappingly slow. But I think it's because my work computer has it's inescapable synchronisation to OneDrive, and so every folder and every file it has to scan for a thumbnail or whatever, waits for it's data from OneDrive like a happy little idiot.

Funnily enough, navigating a remote directory on my NAS from my home Linux desktop is blazingly fast as if the files are local.

Windows or the Corporate Environment, or the combination of the two, is creating so much overhead that it feels like going back in time 25+ years.

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