Comments on: Frigate3 Windows File Manager

By: jacky

jacky — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:25:00 +0000

I have tried many alternative to the standard Explorer, and I have to say that, to me, there is one file manager that REALLY stands out above any other out there, for many reasons : XYplorer

It comes with lots of amazing features that really helps you improve you daily life, from simple things life excludig the extension from the selection while renaming a file, or the ability to move/copy to new folder created on the fly, or using the file’s name as default name for that new folder, to revolutionary features like its Catalog, the “New Items” feature so you can create new documents or full folder structure in one click, or the highlighting features which are not only awesome, but unique and highly addictive.

Truth be told, the whole application is highly addictive, very well thought, small, fast, and 100% portable !

And it comes with the best support any user ever experienced, and an amazing & constant development.

I couldn’t recommend it more, and now with Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts, User-Defined Comamnds (and Scripting on its way), the level of power and customization it will allow to really improve your workflow is nothing but phenomenal !

No, I am not involved (or paid), but a daily user of the application, which I love and simply couldn’t live without anymore.

I urge everyone to check out the great source of documentation for XYplorer at http://www.xyplorer.com/xywiki.php and to try it out, you won’t regret it!

http://www.xyplorer.com/

By: RG

RG — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:09:20 +0000

A mature excellent freeware is out there and it beats most in my opinion, I am really thinking I should write to its author and tell him to promote it more because I don’t see it mentioned much (and no, I am not him nor work for him) Its called Ac Browser Plus.

By: jawwad

jawwad — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:13:35 +0000

In my opinion Directory Opus 9 is very powerful and is customizable in an almost limitless number of ways. But personally I don’t need that much power and I prefer QTTabBar that has just the required amount features that I need.

By: gokudomatic

gokudomatic — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:39:27 +0000

after a try of frigate, I still prefer freecommander. it has less functionalities and is more buggy but the footprint is much smaller, doesn’t require any install, the tortoise cvs/svn is fully supported(icons, contextual menu…) and I can use it at my work place. and most of the missing features can be completed with free 3rd party softwares.
The only thing that could make me switch would be the feature to subdivide panels like in blender(as many as I want and in the way I want)

By: Matt Borja

Matt Borja — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:35:21 +0000

It’s an operating system enhancement. Another application; if it makes life easier for someone and works for them, then great!

I know I appreciate applications like feature rich FTP clients that can upload entire directories, automate synchronizations, edit and upload on the fly, etc. versus doing it all manually through the command line using Windows’ ftp command. That’s the difference right there.

By: Tobey

Tobey — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:30:12 +0000

Ehm,
sorry Martin, it works but takes some time before the countdown appears and before then it doesn’t work. My bad.

Oops, sorry about the link again – you need to copy it manually into address bar to display the image. Had it tested by 2 people, it displayed then.

By: Rico

Rico — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:45:23 +0000

Tobey, as far as i know, Freehostia doesn’t allow image hotlinking. Reallyfreehosting does, as well as a FTP uploads. :)

By: gokudomatic

gokudomatic — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:32:00 +0000

pretty interesting. I was with freecommander until now, but this looks better(but freecommander is always free).

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:04:17 +0000

Tobey’s link is wrong.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:49:07 +0000

Tobey what’s wrong with editing comments ? test

By: Tobey

Tobey — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:29:28 +0000

Since editing comments seems not to work properly atm, I have to write a separate one:

If interested, you can check out what a customized Frigate can look like here:

http://cyberfly.freehostia.com/external/Frigate3.jpg

Enjoy.

By: Tobey

Tobey — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:16:44 +0000

Yes, I must say Frigate is a very powerful tool (becoming even more powerful with the support of TotalCommander plugins, which I haven’t tried though) comprising a lot of features that make folder navigation much easier like a tree-view, thumbnail view and more, all of which can be simply activated and dismissed with a keyboard shortcut just like most other commands.

Switch to different “sessions” quickly by pressing ALT+arrows, customize colors and appearance of the manager, use quick view to show you a hint of files’ contents, switch to different drives and functions like default shell folders using a hotkey, set hotkeys for favorite folders, set a hotkey (Scroll Lock) to show/hide the manager from/to tray and much more. With small built in utilities, it’s really easy to quickly preview media files, edit various documents and so on. Use filters to quickly select multiple files w/ common properties and manage content in many ways. Included FTP client is able to deal with any of your needs and accounts……..

The screenshot above shows its default state but in fact it can look and serve much better after some minor customization. Give it few minutes to set up and get a great file manager for every-day use. Brilliant choice.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:10:12 +0000

I’m quite happy with Windows Explorer for Windows XP but I definitively need a replacement for the crappy file management of Windows Vista. I’ll give Frigate3 a try.