Looks great. I ran a test browsing a folder of pdfs but it does not look like File Pilot likes previwing pdfs with Acrobat set as default pdf viewer; no preview/thumbnail shown for pdfs.
PDF previews are not supported yet, but they are planned.
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
#112Please make a mac version.
I will.
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#113This is great indeed but IMO only tech nerds can really appreciate it. My son is 10 and he never really needs to deal with real files. Nowadays normal kids just go any given app to access their photos or docs or music or movies or really anything. The notion of copying a file has been replaced by sharing, renaming doesn't really exists when it comes to photos for example and folder structure (when available) is some form of tags and labels depending on the particular app. It's sad. What do you think, are files a thing of the past?
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
The top of the homepage says File Pilot was made from scratch (so I'd expect inherently less technical debt than something that's been around since the 90's). Comparing its screenshots to Directory Opus, it looks less cluttered, or at least slightly different. The interface looks like it adheres to the Windows 11 design style a little more, versus Directory Opus's screenshots looking like Windows 8-10. If I used Wind…
I prefer to use Win10 and probably move to Linux after that, so the interface doesn't match the rest of my OS. It's incredibly fast though. But speaking of technical debts, I couldn't open a UNC path ( \\nas\share\ ). Opening a network share mounted to a drive letter worked fine though.
FP has been mostly tested and improved for mapped network drives, as the focus has been, and still is, on providing a very solid local experience.
Direct network access (and better integration with NAS) will be added in the near future.
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#115Is this cross platform or is it targeted at a particular filesystem? I skimmed the site but couldn't find any info. The FAQ is full of pricing minutiae but nothing about what platforms are supported?
It will come to other OSes in time. The Windows platform layer is decoupled from everything else, such as rendering and UI, so I only need to write platform-specific code for other OSes.
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#116Rather poetically, this C software in 2025 segfaults on launch. I would file a GitHub issue if this was open source, but alas, nope.
Are you running it inside a VM or Wine?
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really, linux doesn't really have a good file manager. Dolphin probably gets you closest. I'd like to scratch the itch, but I don't have time to start such a project at the moment.
Really, dolphin is best? Using Dolphin on Nobara right now, and the pinned items in the left pane are not there in the systems "file open" dialog, the dialog does not even have breadcrumbs(!!). Or am I holding it wrong?
You have the option of what applications will show the pin. Right click on an item and you can choose if this is global or app-specific (in this case dolphin, but you can indeed pin per app!).
The file open dialog is likely the "portal", which works securely across sandboxed applications. Every Linux does have a portal implementation.
In KDE this portal has quite some features, but it could be that some are not available, possibly spec-related or security concern. You can look in the settings though.
EDIT: pinned items are available in the desktop-portal. I have not looked into breadcrumbs, but I like the location bar to be editable straight away anyways.
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#118Does it integrate with Everything allowing for instant search results for any file anywhere? Plans to have extensions? A detailed comparison with Directory Opus would be welcome
It does not integrate with Everything. It's already blazingly fast with the regular WinAPI for indexing. However, MFT indexing (which Everything uses) will be added as built-in support in the near future. It will be an opt-in option for users.
There are a couple of reasons why I didn't want to make MFT the default.
a) It requires admin access.
b) It's NTFS specific, which means you need to write different logic for other file systems anyway.
c) It's not officially documented or supported by Microsoft. It was reverse-engineered.
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#119Really, really, really impressive the speed of that piece of software. I tested it with a bit of skepticism, but it left me open-mouthed at the speed with which it does everything. I will test it for a few days and if it is confirmed, I will not hesitate to purchase a license.
Thank you!
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#120This is great indeed but IMO only tech nerds can really appreciate it. My son is 10 and he never really needs to deal with real files. Nowadays normal kids just go any given app to access their photos or docs or music or movies or really anything. The notion of copying a file has been replaced by sharing, renaming doesn't really exists when it comes to photos for example and folder structure (when available) is some…
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