XYplorer 7.10.0000

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XYplorer is a multi-tabbed file manager featuring a very powerful file search, versatile preview facilities, a highly customizable interface, and a large array of unique ways to efficiently automate frequently recurring tasks.

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Reviewer:	shodan816	May 6, 2008
Version:	7.10.0000
I have tested almost every Windows Explorer replacement out there, at one time or another and have stayed with XYplorer though it all. IF you want and need dual pane capability, keep looking. IF you want and need FTP capability, keep looking. But for the vast majority of us who don't require either of these, this baby tops them all in options and features. In addition, it's author, Don, improves this gem on a daily basis. Numerous changes and a whole lot of testing by many beta testers happens between each official release. Keep up the great work, Don ! !
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Reviewer:	zridling	May 6, 2008
Version:	7.10.0000
Thanks for the reply, Leo, but I'm not aware of "We've been through this in a long discussion on another forum, which Zaine apparently completely ignored even though it was a direct response to his claims." A URL would be helpful. Hard to respond to things I'm unaware of. If you like DOpus, by all means use it. But no need to be another DOpus troll who "has not used XYplorer much" to run here to the XYplorer page to tell me how great it is everytime XYplorer is updated. In fact, that's pretty desperate of DOpus fans. It means they know they no longer have the best file manager. Besides, XYplorer can defend itself with better performance, cost, value, and far better coding than DOpus ever will be able to. When you've used software long enough, you'll quickly recognize who can code and who cannot. And the DOpus boys are still trying to figure it out. Apparently they trained at Microsoft, because their program is bigger and slower and more expensive than ever. And the next version will be even bigger and even slower, and I'll bet you €50 it won't be a dime cheaper. Understand, just because DOpus is sheer overpriced bloat doesn't make it a great program. I'll admit it can do anything, which according to DOpus is FTP and no more. But its current version can't match XYplorer's quality and design feature by feature for the price. As for Lifetime licenses, I reward software that offers a true Lifetime license, as XYplorer does. The past few years has seen a spate of programs offer what they contend are 'lifetime' licenses only to redefine the term, much like an ISP who says "Unlimited downloads!" but then cancels your service after 5Gb each month. I paid once for XYplorer three versions ago and I'm still enjoying it. Meanwhile, you're getting slammed by DOpus's increasing costs, at least based on the failure of the USDollar vs. the AUSdollar. Good luck with DOpus. I've no doubt you love it, and that you think it's really really great. XYplorer, for me, is just better.
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Reviewer:	LeoDavidson	Apr 20, 2008
Version:	7.00.0000
comeoffit wrote: -- Yes, zridling, we shall agree to disagree. As usual, any feature you want would be a wonderful addition, but any feature somebody else wants--that you don't see an immediate use for--is "bloat". -- Very well said mate. Zaine has been driving me mad for about a year now, slating things because he doesn't personally use them, and exaggerating everything else out of proportion. I have nothing against XYPlorer, so I'm giving it a 5 review even though I don't use it myself, as I am writing here to correct an earlier review and not to put people off XYPlorer. I urge you to try both XY and Opus and all the other file managers and see which suits you best as they are all different. With that said, I just have to correct some of the garbage in Zaine's post below about XY compared to Opus: No, it beats the living crap out of DOpus in every way from: > — features For this read "features that zridling uses", since however you count things Opus has more features than XY. About a year ago Opus added a couple of features which XY happened to have already and Zaine accused it of stealing them (a joke since none of the Opus developers have used XY and the ideas were obvious and standard across many programs), yet when XY later added several features which Opus had had for *years* Zaine sang its praises. Bias? I think so. > — cost That's true, but value is more important than cost. Whether Opus is worth more than XY is up to the individual and which feature they consider important. > — licensing From previous conversations with him, Zaine has a bee in his bonnet about any program which doesn't offer a lifetime licence. Apparently he expects full-time teams of developers to go on working forever without any further payment. Maybe that business model works for some combinations of growing markets or programs which don't get much time devoted to them, but it's not a common model at all however you look at it. To slate a program just because it isn't one of the few with a lifetime licence seems ridiculous to me. Nobody is ever forced to pay for an upgrade they don't value, either. If you buy a version of Opus it lasts forever. > — updates This is a lie, quite frankly. Opus gets updated very regularly and is worked on full-time. Since Opus 9.0 was released a year ago there have been 13 free updates which have included major feature additions at no cost. See for yourself here: http://resource.dopus.com/viewforum.php?f=1 > — copy speed I have no idea what this is about. Opus copies at the maximum speed my hardware can move data at and I and others have done several benchmarks of it against other programs. Usually everything copies at the same speed because it's down to the hardware (so long as nothing silly is going, like with Explorer on Vista). Whenever someone has claimed that Opus copies slower than other programs it has *always* turned out to be due to them not testing things properly. For example, people usually copy files in Opus and then in the other program resulting in a lot of data being cached for the second program. When this is pointed out and they re-do their tests they find everything copies at the same speed. > — search Opus has a very powerful search/filter system which allows you to use almost any file attribute, as well as a simple mode for basic searches. As I have not used XY much and Zaine doesn't offer any specifics I don't know exactly how the two compare, so maybe he's right, but Opus's search abilities are very powerful and I don't trust his bias. > — UI Opus's UI is what you make it. It's very configurable. Beyond that everything is a matter of personal taste. > — cleaner coding I don't see how this is true. Opus buttons generally have a fairly simple syntax like running command-line tools have. > — installation footprint If you care about a couple of megabytes of HDD space more than features then by all means, but I'd say that is a crazy point of view from someone who is scraping the barrel to find reasons to tell other poeple they should use his pet program instead of another. > — memory use We've been through this in a long discussion on another forum, which Zaine apparently completely ignored even though it was a direct response to his claims. Unless you configure Opus to use lots of large background images and icons, or you're in thumbnails mode in a large directory, or some other situation where a lot of data simply has to be loaded into memory, Opus uses a similar amount of memory to most other programs. It certainly never uses so much that it causes a problem so, like the "install footprint" example, it is a complete non-issue in my opinion.
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Reviewer:	KCell	Apr 14, 2008
Version:	7.00.0000
I've tried all the major (and not so major) file managers out there (Directory Opus, PowerDesk, Xplorer2, etc...). Of all of them, XYplorer is the most polished, well thought out, and well supported. There are a few things that the general description doesn't mention. First of all, XYplorer has a very powerful file search (supporting Boolean, RegEx, content search, and more). It's also portable (meaning that it stores nothing in the registry, doesn't require an installation routine, and only requires the files in it's directory in order to run), which means that it can be used with tremendous ease from a flash drive. It also supports Portable File Associations, so you can set your own custom file associations, and even point them to other applications on your flash drive. There is no other file manager that can do this, to my knowledge. In addition, unlike most other software companies, the developer of XY maintains a close relationship with the users - bugs are fixed almost immediately, and feature requests are taken very seriously. If a feature request is easy to implement, and is a good idea, they are often implemented within a matter of days. How many other developers can you say that for? The single and only real issue I ever had with XY was the lack of Dual Pane. However, the developer has agreed to implement it in the next release (v8.0), and there is a discussion on their forum right now, discussing the specifics of how they would like it implemented: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?t=2293 This is truly the cream of the crop of file managers.
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Reviewer:	Ralfo	Apr 2, 2008
Version:	7.00.0000
Just for the record: XYplorer does support unicode.
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