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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 9
« on: April 27, 2007, 03:24 AM »[nudel]: ...nobody so far has mentioned a way in which Opus is slower than XY.
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Except for XYplorer has advantages in:
- installation speed and ease
- (free) portability to any device
- quicker and vastly simpler customizations and program configurations
- easier to save and load your configurations, and backup options
- folder size calculations are done on the fly, in the background, and significantly faster than DOpus in large folders with lots of files (>10,000, for example)
- licensing and maintenance costs; also ONE (Lifetime) license and ONE download, along with the fact that XYplorer doesn't presume registered users to be thieves and pirates
- access to almost all of Windows System folders are all one click away
- XYplorer is anywhere from 5% to 8% of DOpus's total install size, depending on what various parts of DOpus you install or purchase, if you can keep up with all the options, that is
- a variety of configurably refresh options, from (superfast) thumbnails to network drives to file operations
- distinctly faster, more comprehensive, and easier to use search options
- renaming options for multiple files are one keyboard shortcut away
That's a start, at least. Download the latest beta; see first-hand! :Thmbsup:-zridling (April 27, 2007, 02:43 AM)
Most of which is irrelevant to the question I asked. Most of which is BS as I've already pointed out. I feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall here.
Any takers for the DOpus advantages short-list ?-tomos
Exactly! I don't have all day to list the things Opus does that XY (or anything else) doesn't. Like I said in my original, huge reply, programs don't follow each other down a linear path to "feature completness".