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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Character Table Plug-In
« Last post by rjbull on June 16, 2008, 10:38 AM »Check for (plugin) updates goes through the DCUpdater, which does not work for me because it won't go through proxy.pac proxies.
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the price is steep-Darwin (June 11, 2008, 05:28 PM)
To clarify, the system I had the trial running on is a first generation Centrino running at 1.4Ghz with 2GB RAM on a 5400 rpm 2.5" harddrive. Not a speed demon but not exactly obsolete, either.
PromptPal takes 3 seconds as stated (just timed it) and TCC9 was slightly longer, so say 5 seconds to load (I didn't time it when I had it installed and am not interested in installing it again to time it now). I just timed PowerCMD as well and it opened in under a second.
Not free: WinMount-4wd (June 10, 2008, 09:10 PM)
Please download the latest via DcUpdater.-taichimaster (June 10, 2008, 03:42 PM)
XYplorer 7.20 has been released on 09-Jun-2008. Here's a quick introduction to the main new features:
Support for editing Unicode filenames. Finally, XYplorer supports inline renaming for filenames containing non-ANSI Unicode characters.
Warp speed through new "treeless browsing". Ever since, the Tree shows basically the same path as the Window Title, the Address Bar and the File List: If you change the current path by any of the numerous ways available in XYplorer, the Tree is automatically adjusted to the new location. Even, if you don't really need that service... The new toggle "Auto-Synchronize Tree" allows you to turn off the Tree temporarily. Here are some of the reasons for doing this:
(1) It offers a uniform maximum browsing speed that's totally independent of the nesting depth of the target locations. For example, if you quickly need to check size and version of a particular system file, it is totally pointless to expand the tree down to system32, because all you need is a quick glance at that file in the file list. Or, if you have a script that needs to visit some location -- why should the tree get busy here?
(2) It keeps the Tree in a stable state and position while browsing. For example, this can be valuable when collecting stuff from various locations via drag+drop into a couple of target folders -- no need to scroll the tree anymore: The Tree just sits there and waits.
(3) It makes consequent use of XYplorer's many ways of going to a new place: Address Bar, Tabs, Catalog, Favorites, History, Hotlist, Breadcrumb, GoTo, UDCs, Scripts, etc. ... they all work flawlessly without the Tree, and if you just need to go somewhere to work with certain items, you may well be completely uninterested in their position in the file system -- no need for a Tree to show you.
New popular button "Copy Path/Name". A new toolbar button for a common task: copying the full path/name of a file item to the clipboard.
The button comes with an extensive context menu (as most of XYplorer's toolbar buttons):
Faster startup. Fundamental re-engineering of core components resulted in notably shorter load times: around 0.6 seconds (!) on a typical 2 GHz processor.
Console is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles
The main problem I have with XYPlorer's content search feature is that it is not only slow, but also SO slow that I tend to give up on it (and it chews up a lot of resources as well).-Darwin (June 06, 2008, 08:17 AM)
I should play with it on a much more restricted set of files (ie not on my entire E: drive - 80+ GB, as I usually do...).
FL Pro is very nice, but BareGrep Pro is much faster
... As you might imagine, I have licences for both
Why all the red faced smilies of late? Well... I have licences for a lot of software but have next to no expertise with any of them - sort of a modified Jack of all trades, master of none... How would that go? Darwin of all apps, master of none
can anyone recommend a file manager that will do a simple byte comparison of two files ?-tomos (June 05, 2008, 09:02 AM)
Do you mean, a built-in "diff" tool? If you do, Total Commander has it. You can compare as binary, or not (i.e. as text).-rjbull (June 05, 2008, 11:03 AM)
well, in DOpus you can synch folder contents by doing a "byte comparision"
I actually dont want to have to look at text & compare it (or even know where the differences are) - I just want to know if they're the same or not-tomos (June 05, 2008, 12:45 PM)
Maybe I should just ask DonL seeing as I have XYPlorer liscence...
Do your 15 licenses for file managers include XYplorer? And if so, how do you rate its search functions against those, given that it's a file manager built on a file-finder, rather than the other way round?-rjbull (June 05, 2008, 03:24 AM)I'm feeling quite embarrassed now (rather than being simply embarrassed)...
-Darwin (June 05, 2008, 08:47 AM)
But c'est la vie! Yes, I have a lifetime licence for XYPlorer and love it. It's search feature is very fine, but I would rate it between SearchGT and FileLocator Pro based on speed AND based on feature set
- the differences would be that if speed were determining the criteria, SearchGT would win, whereas on feature set FL Pro would win.
However, if you're taking BOTH into account, XYPlorer heads the list! It's quicker than FL Pro and DOES do file content searching. However, I've never really been able to get it to work - all the hits that I get contain my search term in their titles and I KNOW that there are many thousands of files that contain the search term in their content but not in their titles. Anyway, just did such a regular "title" search and it took 79 seconds on 80 GB of data (114,000 files in 9000 folders). Content searches take A LONG TIME. In fact, FL Pro handles this kind of search much more quickly.
can anyone recommend a file manager that will do a simple byte comparison of two files ?-tomos (June 05, 2008, 09:02 AM)
it sounds, possibly, like either SearchGTor FileLocator Pro.-Darwin (June 04, 2008, 11:15 PM)
* Automatically respond to irritating prompts and pop ups.
* From simple auto-responses & auto-clicks to complex macros.
* Monitor vital programs and keep them running.
* Prevent programs from running at undesirable times.
* Receive notification of all actions taken on your behalf.
* Highly configurable
* Quick & easy to use.
An Automatic Form Filler. PTFB Pro takes automation of repetative tasks to a new level with its capability to trigger a macro in response to a specific window appearing. This makes it ideal for automatically completing the login screens and connection dialogs you see every day.
launchy sometimes costs me 90MB memory-electronixtar (May 26, 2008, 11:03 PM)
I think the number one suggestion should be changed to "The name of the launcher itself"-Josh (May 26, 2008, 10:41 PM)
But FWIW:double check every plugin folder for "options.xml"
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One of the DC member already made a terrible mistake. I can't image how many ppl have donwloaded that plugin package.-electronixtar (May 27, 2008, 01:29 AM)
type PERIOD (.) to add the timer.-mouser (May 02, 2008, 10:31 AM)
yes this is true, but i think the first thing would be to have a good help file (very good ?),
but let's not forget FARR is pretty much one man's work, and it is freeware ... so i will not complain-nitrix-ud (May 21, 2008, 01:23 PM)
but as Perry Mowbray points out, it now has a large community of enthusiastic users. Much of the material on FARR is still in the forum and doesn't seem to have made it to an integrated help/tutorial, so given that nobody likes writing help files/documentation, Perry Mowbray's suggestion of a wiki makes sense.