Reviews of Directory Opus

1. 
   uberfly

   Reviewing 9.1.3.0 (Jun 19, 2009)

   Absolutely the best. Spend some time to configure it a thousand different ways and it will work exactly as you need. Makes Total Commander look like a clunky model-t.
2. 
   anomoly

   Reviewing 9.1.3.0 (Jun 18, 2009)

   The one thing I do miss is the ability to create multiple folders at once. Other than that- not much. It takes a long minute to configure it to look and act like I like- THAT I don't miss at all. I prefer TotalCommander, as it is very easy to configure and any plugins are purely optional. TC is also portable whereas DO never will be.
3. 
   michaelkenward

   Reviewing 9.1.1.6 (Jan 6, 2009)

   Describing Directory Opus as "a complete file manager and Explorer replacement solution" is, on top of the illiterate use of the "solution" word, misleading. Yes. It does that. But a lot more too.
   
   Many software houses use "complete" to describe lesser file managers and Explorer replacements. Look no further than PowerDesk, for example.
   
   Over the years (I started off with CP/M) I have resorted to many utilities to handle various tasks – joining, splitting, renaming, viewing, "FTPing" and generally processing files.
   
   Directory Opus handles these and more.
   
   It is not cheap, but with that much power "under the hood" it might be worth it if you don't want the hassle of handling a raft of separate freeware utilities.
   
   The main drawback, and I always get jumped on when I mention it, is that the very power on offer can make the thing hard for some people to grasp.
   
   Directory Opus is a techy's delight. And it comes with a self-support forum that delivers the goods more often than not, which goes some way to making up for the complexity.
   
   "Oi'd give it foive" but for the complexity and the fact that the Help files and manuals assume rather a lot of the beginner.
4. 
   Undesired Username

   Reviewing 9.1.0.3 (Sep 2, 2008)

   I used other file managers for years before seriously giving Directory Opus a try. I wish I'd done so sooner, because DO blows XYPlorer away. How long I suffered with needless limitations...
   
   Of course, any best-in-category software is going to be accused of being "bloatware". Whatever. DO is not slow, and it causes my system no undue strain, so what is the point?
   
   Plugins? No thanks. A rewrite would take eons, and would result in months of buggy hell, no doubt even after released "gold". And then we'd have to deal with what every plugin-supporting application does, which is compatibility issues, regression-type bugs in multiple modules, and all that crap.
   
   I like plugins for certain types of applications, but for DO, I like getting it all as one integrated, tested-to-work-as-a-whole package. I don't want to have to worry about new versions breaking plugins, or vice-versa. And it would happen.
   
   As far as my own DO wish list: It continues to annoy me that DO's FTP support lacks a tree view. I for one like seeing my FTP folders in a standard Explorer-type tree in the left pane.
5. 
   PC_Tool

   Reviewing 9.1.0.3 (Jun 1, 2008)

   Zaine reminds me of the Old Men in the balcony from The Muppet Show after the "Mahna Mahna" song...
   
   its features have accrued over the years from its users who asked for almost every one of them. That's good development!
   
   Directory Opus is the gold standard.
   
   Love DOpus, but not its growing bloat.
   
   I've got a dozen good reasons to dump DOpus, but I'm not in the mood.
   
   Love DOpus, but not its growing bloat.
   
   DOpus has become the MS Office of file managers
   
   Heh...
   
   Amazingly, this isn't a rip on Zaine. People's preferences over time *do* actually change, and all of these quotes took place over a span of months. If you read back through them all, you can almost see his frustration and dissatisfaction growing with each new version.
   
   I agree with him (shocking, isn't it?).
   
   DOpus used to be the best, bar none. Nothing even held a candle to it. It has now grown beyond itself and needs to be rewritten from scratch:
   
   Baseline explorer replacement with enhancement/plugin functionality to reduce the bloat and allow folks to add only the features they need/want.

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