Double Commander Reviews

best free file manager I recently used, packed with all features I need

Hi alexx2000 ! Super file manager, just the right portable tool for working on the command prompt - I really like Double Commander. A few small things would be to mention, but I leave, because everything can be discovered or configured so far.

good

Thanks for this awesome, matchless job, and sorry to not support you as you deserved it.

Exactly what I looking for. Thank You very much!

Thank you very much for the free open source program!

For anyone who regularly works with files and directories Double Commander is a dream tool. In its default state it does more and better than all the file manager tools available, including pricey commercial ones. But, it is also infinitely extensible. There are easily-available plugins but, more interestingly, the ability to extend it yourself using the deceptively named "Edit Toolbar" feature. What's more, if you are trying to achieve a certain function, through that feature or something else, there are many existing examples to use for guidance or an active user community that always seems to have at least a couple of people who readily understand what you want to do. Quite simply I love Double Commander. I work with a lot of files and directories that require repetitive simple tasks like creating links of a file in one directory to a different directory in the facing tab/panel. I can right-click and in a microsecond it's done. Other file managers require a fair bit of dancing to get the link to the other panel -- in fact it's usually faster to just do it from a command line. I can create an empty file with the filename of an existing file and excluding its file extension by clicking a simple toolbar button (So where there was "filename.ext" 10 Mb, there is also now a "filename" 0Mb). These are just two examples of simple tasks that I need repeatedly that other file managers either do not support at all or support with some grief. I use Double Commander on Kubuntu which includes its own very, very nice file manager, Dolphin. I genuinely like Dolphin, a lot. But Dolphin is just not in the same league when it comes to dual-panel operations. One example is copying or moving files from one panel to the other. Devs wrote in a public forum that drag and drop is already the solution, when a user asked about implementing a right click option. They don't understand that drag and drop is clunky when dealing with a full directory, particularly one that includes many other folders or executable files. The file manager gets confused about whether you want to copy the file to one of the other folders, or maybe try to act on the file with an executable, or whatever. They simply assume there is always some white space in the destination folder on which to click a drag and drop. But for people who work with files and folders enough to need a real file manager, that is very, very often simply not the case. Ergo the need for a right click "Copy to Other Panel" and "Move to Other Panel." My DC also has Create Link in Other Panel. Importantly, when I went looking for some help to extend things in a small way to suit my own particular work, no one decided I needed to be told that the existing ways of doing things are just fine and I should stop trying to do things differently. Bottom line is you may not always be able to achieve what you want in extending DC, but it will never be because no one thought your effort was worth a hearing. In free open source software that counts for a lot. There are a couple of things about DC that I would prefer different, but not many and not operationally important. For example, I'd prefer if there was no internal editor, not because I don't do editing but because there are quite a lot of great editors out there (I use Kate and Geany) and I'd prefer the devs devote their full attention to the file manager. Thing is, if devs want to work on an editor component, all the power to them, it's not like it actually hurts the rest of the file manager and gosh, it is their own time after all [smile]. The point is that Double Commander is simple enough for all users with the potential for complexity to whatever extent needed by specialized users. The thing that makes me so certain in recommending is DC is that when I try to think of features I might want to note as absent or something I would like to see added, instead I can only come up with a wistful thought about the best use of developer time. That's the biggest drawback I can come up with? Amusing evidence that it's a pretty solid piece of software.

Just love it.

Thanks a lot for a very, very good tool! Excelent work!

YES, after a long long time... that's what i was looking for !! Great Job

Very good files manager and easy to use. The great thing is total free !!!

Wonderful! Exceptional! I am old in informatics and for some reasons I need today to use Mac. I started in the '80s with Norton Commander and today I cannot live without something like that (I use Total Commander on Win). I spent some days to understand how to survive without TC, downloading expensive as much as ridicolous toys and then... I discovered Double Commander, love at first sight! THANKS FROM THE DEEP OF MY HEART TO THE DEVELOPERS!!!!!

I found this to be the best alternative for Total Commander.

Must have.

Excellent fully-featured multi-platform file manager! Supports (most of) existing Total Commander plugins.

Thank you for your sharing, it's very helpful

Hello, For the moment I'm testing the portable version: Version: 0.9.3 beta / Revision: 8847M / Build date: 2019/05/18. Everything seems to be working fine. The only problem is that neither the icons nor the text are displayed in the toolbar (the one above). It's just a small problem that will be solved later, I guess. Sincerely with my thanks for your work. From Istanbul (Windows 10 - 64 bits - Updated). PS: I forgot to say that I really appreciate the speed and lightness of "DC" ! Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator

that is great

One of probably the best file commander for Linux, but still no ability to synchronize empty directories!!! Anybody who needs to sync huge file structures strongly required this functionality. Many other open-source file manager is able to handle this problem, so why not a Double Commander, too???

Я 150-й.

I've come here after evaluating the very expensive Directory Opus, and I'm STUNNED by the efficiency, clean design, and proper coding standards of this product. I hope development continues and this takes on to be the explorer standard for every IT / CS major.

Okey luckily selecting isn't hell now on virtual machine on mac, but you need to add option to modify selectors eg map ctrl to altshift, combination shift+ctrl to alt, toggle between selecting in mouse/windows mode (recording everything as addition to current selection). This really need to be add as on vmware i doubt the keyboard shortcuts would be so easy friendly. UNFORTUNATELY WITHOUT UNDO/REDO FEATURE THIS PROGRAM IS WORTHLESS FOR BASIC USERS

Full text search in all the files and text editor F4 with syntax highlights are the cutting features makes this commander superior of its competitors.

Best cross-platform file manager.

I can't live without this. Thanks for making it.