For anyone interested, Standard and Lifetime licenses are 50% off.


https://www.xyplorer.com/

Hi All -

I am tempted to take advantage of this Black Friday deal to make it easier to get around in Windows. Has anyone had experience - good or bad - with xyplorer that they are willing to share. Also, is there a program that is better? Thanks.

Daly

Lb wrote:

For anyone interested, Standard and Lifetime licenses are 50% off.


https://www.xyplorer.com/

Directory Opus is usually ranked at the top so I recently bought it on sale. But I haven't learned it yet. I'm still using xplorer2 which is 25% of right now. I like it very much and I think it has some features that no other file manager has. I hear good things about xyplorer too.

Jim

Thanks. I am curious what features xplorer has that others may not.

Daly

Jim, I am referring to xplorer 2. Thanks.

Daly

Daly de Gagne wrote:

Jim

Thanks. I am curious what features xplorer has that others may not.

Daly

I know this is not much help but I have been a user of xyplorer for years and I really like it. Constantly improving and while it has some quirks I like it a lot

I too use XYplorer. The site gives you a list of its features which, for my purposes, are comparable or better than others. It has become indispensable for my workflow and I recommend it as well. If this is a consideration, it is available as a portable "install."

Jon

XYplorer is the best software I've ever used on Windows. I have a lifetime license I got many years ago and it's always running. I've never had any bug or issues with it. Do check out the website, it is very informative and I don't think it exaggerates. It is indeed extremely fast and responsive. Right now it's using only 10 MB of memory according to task manager. It's actively developed, it has a large and active group of users, excellent forum, it's portable, customizable, it goes on and on. Hm, I think I sound like a shill! But it really is the real thing.

Interesting. I have a trial of Directory Opus installed right now and was thinking of taking advantage of their current sale. What I like most is DO's implementation of a flat view, where it's possible to see all the contents of a folder hierarchy in a sortable flat list with the usual columns.* My memory is that XYplorer has something similar, but I don't remember whether the implementation is as robust.

(*Side note: Seeing hierarchically organized items in a sortable and editable flat list with columns is one of my favorite features to have in an outliner, but it's all too rare. InfoQube and Tinderbox can both do it well.)

Thanks for posting this! I have been using XYplorer for a long time and just purchased a license for my daughter. :)

Lucas wrote:

What I like most is DO's implementation of a flat view, where it's possible to see all the contents of a folder hierarchy in a sortable flat list with the usual columns

UltraSearch (free Windows app) does something similar. It is also blazingly fast as it taps directly into the master file table (MFT)

Pierre Paul Landry
IQ Designer
https://www.infoqube.biz/Home

"Everything" (https://www.voidtools.com/ is another tool similar to UltraSearch, also free, and it also accesses the MFT.

For anyone who missed this, it looks like he extended it to a Cyber Monday Sale 2022 good until Monday night.

One thing that hasn't been mentioned here is the license is a generous User license that lets you install it on all of the single users computers (unless this has changed in the last few days but I don't think so).

I was using and was happy with FreeCommander XE, Q-Dir and some others. I tried out XYplorer and Directory Opus for a few months and liked XYplorer better for what I needed and have been checking out the site to see by chance if it would go on Black Friday sale and it did so I grabbed the Lifetime license. I don't use file explorers a lot to invest a lot of money in them but have found XYplorer worth it.

There's a Forum to browse through to give you a lot better idea of what it can do and get any help needed.

Have a good one,
Larry

Forgot the link to the Forum

https://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/index.php

Daly de Gagne wrote:

Jim

Thanks. I am curious what features xplorer has that others may not.

Daly

Daly here is the official list of xplorer2 features.

https://www.zabkat.com/x2facts.htm

One feature that pops into mind is the Scrap Container, which can hold files and folders from many different folders in one window. I use that all the time. I'm not sure if any other program has that.

XYPlorer is cool, but one problem is that it's an old 32bit VB6 application, and it is questionable how long VB6 will be supported - it's kind of a dead end. Two years ago, the author had planned to modernize and migrate everythign to a 64bit .NET programming language, but after a few months dropped the plan because it seemed not doable for him. See this epic thread: https://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21626

I've been using Total Commander for many years, and it was good enough for me. I've dowloaded a trial version now, and have to say, that XYPlorer is much superior to TC.
However, there is a one problem: drag and drop from outside XYPlorer does not work in Windows 11. I'm using drag and drop toolbar for win11 (as this feature is no longer native) and XYPlorer icon is not visible in it.

Tomasz Raburski wrote:

I've been using Total Commander for many years, and it was good enough
for me. I've dowloaded a trial version now, and have to say, that
XYPlorer is much superior to TC.
However, there is a one problem: drag and drop from outside XYPlorer
does not work in Windows 11. I'm using drag and drop toolbar for win11
(as this feature is no longer native) and XYPlorer icon is not visible
in it.

I've solved it.
You CANNOT run it as an administrator.
strange. it's the first time I see something like this

Thanks Jim. That sounds like a good feature.

Daly

jimspoon wrote:

Daly de Gagne wrote:
Jim
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>Thanks. I am curious what features xplorer has that others may not.
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>Daly

Daly here is the official list of xplorer2 features.

https://www.zabkat.com/x2facts.htm

One feature that pops into mind is the Scrap Container, which can hold
files and folders from many different folders in one window. I use that
all the time. I'm not sure if any other program has that.

I remember looking at xyplorer a while back and I think maybe I liked the ways it handled photos. I can’t remember now what made it different in that respect. I’m thinking on starting a big family history project and should maybe look at it again.

There is no file explorer that comes to close to Directory Opus. It is the most advanced, most sophisticated, and most configurable explorer I have ever seen. There is nothing like it both in the Mac and Windows.

What I missed about it the most is the fact that you can tell DO what kind of files you store in a specific folder, and then, it turns from regular file manager to music manager and metadata editor for that specific folder. You tell it folder X contains pictures, suddenly acts like Lightroom, or sth like that. It is incredible. I have been asking the developers of Path Finder to add features like that. But, no, Path Finder is miles behind that level of sophistication.