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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: DeQuevedo on May 22, 2003, 01:16:10 AM
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Everyone amigan knows that Dopus is the better file manager appz, by far.
Vote for it here!
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3611
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Gag.... only those who have never seen another file browser/manger could ever vote for explorer. Even file manager in win 3.1 was better. Norton gets the votes of those smarter win users who managed to get away from explorer, but still never saw another browser. I think the original Opus was great up to ver 4.x, they kind of lost me at ver 5.
Plaz
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@Plaz
I know the feeling. When Dopus5 came out I avoided it for a year like a plaque, due it being so overly complex. Being told it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Then finally got myself to use it.. and my god, it really WAS the greatest thing since sliced bread :-)
Now I can't live without Magellan. IMO of the best and nicest apps ever for Amiga. And the Windows Dopus is getting there aswell.
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Defintly Directory Opus 4 rules!
I can´t live without.
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IMO Diskmaster 2 is the best file manager on the Amiga, On my pc i like Enriva Magellan Explorer, its by far the best file manager i have used on Windows.
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Now, as i dont have a file manager for the amiga, and still struggle to get my A1200 running.. i cant say any about that...
But for PC the by far supperior filehandler is Total Commander, once known as "windows Commander" but had a name change when it reached version 5.0
thats my to pence..
B!
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Opus 4.12 is the best filemanager around after that comes Explorer.
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Explorer!
if i had the *option* of a tree layout pane in dopus magellan's listers then that would maybe be the best file manager. plus the mini icons when in detail view. infact i seem to remember suggesting to the dopus team that they put something like that in.
(thought for OS 4... reckon we can have NewIcons with an optional "mini" icon contained within for similar purposes/toolbars etc. as well as the nice chunky one for general largeness when reuired ... i.e. so that i can on the fly have mini icons with names to the right or big ones with names below like when you change views in explorer)
explorer rules for dragging dropping, spanking and shell integration of things like winrar and textpad
e.g. right-click-drag a zip/lha to another directory and a menu pops up ... "extract here?" yes please (or "copy here" or "move here" as per usual) and i can box-drag-select about 12 c++ files at once, right click and select "textpad" and they all magically open at once in the text editor. hurrah! (yes yes this technically isnt vanilla explorer behaviour but surely it counts under "configuration" somewhere)
but then again explorer doesnt have a nice configgable button bank at the top... oh how i've longed for a "new folder" button for, well, ever.
when using explorer i usually sort by date with newest at the top, but the idiots at microsoft have changed it so that if you do that in XP the folders magically dissapear to the bottom of the list! stupid F**kers .... at least with something like reqtools you can choose!
oh and i keep trying to double click on the windows desktop to bring up an explorer window Dopus Magellan style!
and i like the fact you can use CTRL+C CTRL+V to really quickly duplicate a file or folder. though it doesnt ask you for a new name like dopuses duplicate button....
oh what a choice!
i'll vote for dopus to pledge my amiga allegiance .(though one suspects the poll represents the ful screen fixed to two directories old version)
:-D
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IDD Cycloid.
I would say Explorer first but it doesnt have the buttonconfiguration like Dopus has, but on the other hand Explorer is highly customizable when you get the hang of it.