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Today I found this cool review at http://www.techsupportalert.com/issues/issue133.htm - enjoy:

Best Free File Manager
My long time recommendation has been xplorer² [1] however I've been using another product called XYPlorer [2] for the last few weeks and have concluded that it may be even better.

It's not a two pane manager like xplorer² but rather uses a tabbed view which is both more flexible and more powerful. It's packed with features such as batch rename, address bar search, a filter that takes wildcards, colored visual filters, multiple views and a highly configurable and extremely useful "new items" menu. Its killer feature though is the file search which just has to be one of the most powerful in the business and it's really fast, too.

When you start using the product you'll discover lots of additional hidden gems like the ability to copy a directory tree structure without the files or the ability to print a directory. Indeed, after a month of use I'm still discovering new features and usage tricks.

XYPlorer is clearly aimed to meet the needs of advanced users and succeeds brilliantly. Xplorer² however is still a better choice for average users who will be overwhelmed by XYPlorer's power.

XYPlorer was free but on the 21 March 2006 it morphed to shareware. [...]

by Gizmo Ian Richards, 18th May, 2006



Of course, the current shareware version is even better than the freeware version...

I'm not sure if there is any connection but back when I submitted XY to various newletters, like Langa, to generate some publicity, I had sent an email to this one also...

j_c_hallgren wrote:I'm not sure if there is any connection but back when I submitted XY to various newletters, like Langa, to generate some publicity, I had sent an email to this one also...

It surely has not harmed! Thanks!

From http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46 ... ies.htm#11

XYplorer is another strong contender. It uses a tabbed view rather than a two pane view which is better when working with multiple folders though not quite as efficient as the two pane approach when working with only two. XYplorer is packed with features included one of the best file-finders I've seen. It's one of those products that impresses more with use. In fact I suspect that if you use it for a month, you'll end up using it permanently.

I keep seeing references to the fact that I can print a directory tree, but for the life of me I can't find out how to do it. I can print what I see in the right-hand pane, but I want to print the full directory, as I see it in the left-hand pane. Is that possible, if so can someone tell me how to do it? Many thanks. Sorbs.

Sorbs wrote:I keep seeing references to the fact that I can print a directory tree, but for the life of me I can't find out how to do it. I can print what I see in the right-hand pane, but I want to print the full directory, as I see it in the left-hand pane. Is that possible, if so can someone tell me how to do it? Many thanks. Sorbs.

Hi,

two questions:
(1) Why do you post this under "XYPlorer = Best Free File Manager"?
(2) Ever looked up "Directory Print" in the Help?

Don

Don,

I'm almost 70 years old and consider myself generally reasonably adept at getting my computer to do things that I want it to do, and I paid for XYplorer because I thought it well worth it.

I put the post here because this is where my search led me when I searched for "directory print" in the search field of the forum, and this is where I'm told that such is possible. It's also quite difficult to navigate to what you might consider the "right" forum. Printing? Navigating? Viewing? Which would you say?

As often happens, once one has found something it seems obvious, but not so a priori. In this case, even after the fact it seems obscure. I have never used the Info panel as I use XYplorer only as much as necessary, and mainly because of the Catalog and the twin pane possibility.

To print the contents of the right-hand pane is easy, but as you have shown me, to print the contents of the left-hand panel is totally different. I suspect that even if I had seen that "report" entry I might well have passed it over as...well...it's not a "report" that I want, just a listing of the directory.

So...it would be well if you would be more gentle with your correspondents. We're not stupid, but perhaps just a little impatient now and then.

Best wishes
Sorb


two questions:
(1) Why do you post this under "XYPlorer = Best Free File Manager"?
(2) Ever looked up "Directory Print" in the Help?

Don

Sorbs,
you are very welcome here, even in a not most appropriate subject .

Best regards