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General Software Discussion / Re: File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 11:03 PM »

Interesting - I just tried zipping two files with DOpus in dual pane mode (vertical) and the zip file was created in the folder of origin. I looked at the zip settings in the settings dialogue and can't see anything that covers this, so don't know how I have it set up to accomplish this! I can post screenshots of the two tabs covering zip options from my setup, if you like, but that's about it. It's worth noting that my wife is still running DOpus 8 and on her setup creating a shortcut from the context menu in dual pane mode results in the shortcut being created in the source folder! That's what prompted me to speculate that its a more general setting and not zip specific. I'll take a look at her settings and post back if anything illuminating pops up...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Check&Get support blows chunks

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 09:20 PM »

Interesting, I just found this post from the developer of UltraExplorer... Resonates a bit WRT this thread.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Archivarius

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 07:14 PM »

Yes - this is what I do as well. I have it scheduled to index every hour, so this business of not indexing files in use is something to keep in mind (for me, anyway)!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Free computer help online (tune-ups, customization, etc)

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 07:12 PM »

Heh, heh - you're not alone in harbouring these conspiracy theories about M$!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Free computer help online (tune-ups, customization, etc)

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 07:04 PM »

First of all, Windows Live should NOT require you to login or register  as I have tried it and it doesn't ask me, however it is a beta program, so

I get this cursed behaviour with Notepad dialogues of all things. I have not yet figured out what is going on, but it first requires me to click "cancel" on a number of requests to log into a webdav folder from work and then switches to two requests to log into Live. I'd love to figure out why this is so as well. As I never use notepad (EditPad Pro and ultraedit for me!), I've never followed up very diligently. Perhaps I will now...

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Living Room / Re: How do you organise your 'My Documents' folder

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 06:56 PM »

Padlock6 - I do the same thing but wipe it out every so often, backing it up to an external harddrive. I use WhereIsIt to catalogue the external drive so always know what I've "got". ClipMate is used to save all serial and activation numbers...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Archivarius

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 06:53 PM »

OK - it indexed both the xml and the edb files in backups no problem... So, I shutdown Evernote (which had been running in the tray) and reindexed - all is well. My database has been indexed and is completely searchable. Users might ask why bother when Evernote's own searching and tagging are so advanced? Well... I can now search my notes going back years without having to open Evernote (and I don't let it open with Windows)  . So there.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Archivarius

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 06:48 PM »

Hmm... I didn't have the backup folder selected for archiving - it's being done now. I suspect that only the xml backup files are being indexed (I've confirmed that edb files are set to be indexed) and will confirm after it's done. I think I'll have to approach the developer about this one...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Archivarius

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 06:43 PM »

Donner and Blitzen! Not good... Right, back to the drawing board. Thanks for reporting back, Grorgy!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Archivarius

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 06:25 PM »

Hey Grorgy - if you can get Archivarius to work with your Evernote database (edb files) would you mind posting back? I can't get it to work on mine... I'm just going to try making a dedicated archivarius database to index my evernote database (?!) and see if that works... UPDATE: NOPE!

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General Software Discussion / Re: File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 06:11 PM »

You got to accept that some days you're the pigeon and other days you're the statue

Yeah, but why do I get to be the statue more often than not?

One of my all-time favourite quotes, from Cheers circa 1985:

Norm walks into the bar and the regulars all yell out "Norm!" in unison.

Someone (probably Cliff Claven) asks: "How's life treating you?"

To which Norm replies: "Like a baby treats a diaper!*"



*diaper = nappy!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.140 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - Aug 15, 2007

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 05:18 PM »

  That's a fabulous idea - greatly increases functionality and power without requiring the user to memorize 47 keyboard shortcuts (also makes for more efficient use of keyboard shortcuts - they're a finite resource!).

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General Software Discussion / Re: File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 05:05 PM »

Sorry, twinkler - I'm getting sloppy! There's a thread about the offer here. Direct link for the offer is here. Have fun!

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General Software Discussion / Re: File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 04:34 PM »

Nice Dirhael! I love DOpus and have been using it through versions 6,8 and now 9 (over four years and counting) and it blows me away how much there is to learn about it (rephrased: how much I don't bloody well know!).

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: xplorer², a powerful windows file manager and explorer replacement / alternative

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 04:22 PM »

I still say if you find it so useful that you should pay the author for his work, but hey, thats just my opinion.

-Josh (August 30, 2007, 03:58 PM)

I really don't want this to degenerate into a flame war so I'm not saying a thing... (Josh - you are so right! Did I say that out loud?).

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General Software Discussion / Re: File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 04:18 PM »

Is UltraExplorer worthy of consideration (http://www.mustangpe...xplorer/index.html)?

-mwb1100 (August 30, 2007, 04:08 PM)

Certainly! And another that I was aware of and had forgotten about (I'll stop making these claims now because we could probably populate several pages with post/responses in this vein!). I think ANY file manager is grist for the mill in here. I know that there are some Servant Salamander fans active here in these forums - this is another app I've been tempted by in the past and I'd love to hear from some active users as to theri likes and dislikes about it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 04:13 PM »

Thanks for posting with the links, JohnFredC - I was in a rush and didn't include them. You've included some I'd forgotten about, too like ABCommander. Another is Frigate 3.

I was seriously tempted to buy licences for both V - The File Viewer (I like the built in text editing, for a start) and Total Commander. However, I have licences for DirOpus 9, Frigate 3 (from Giveawayoftheday), DJFV Deluxe, AccelMan (also courtesy of Giveawayoftheday), XYPlorer, ZTreeWin, PowerDesk Pro 6, not to mention I still have FMStepUp installed (using NT 4's winfile.exe)... I've forgotten one or more of them, but such is life... xplorer2 looks attractive as well... Ultimately, my problem is that I love this genre of application. However, I can't use the managers I've got (I have four installed with DOpus as my default and as the Windows Explorer replacement).

Great comments so far. I agree with JohnFredC that this will be an interesting thread if we can discuss the merits of different solutions with objectivity and moderation, which is how I envisioned it when I started it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top 3 programs you use

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 02:22 PM »

Well... maybe not (for my usage anyway). I've already organized my PhD dissertation and note that CbC is much better suited to starting a project from scratch.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Archivarius

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 02:19 PM »

Archivarius 3.91 adds support for OneNote and Evernote files 

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General Software Discussion / Re: File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 02:15 PM »

I just started using DO and have a couple of questions. Hope it's alright to ask here.

I have a dual pane vertical setup (like in xplorer2)

1. With an item selected in the right pane, pressing tab doesn't take me to the left pane (like it does in xplorer2). Any idea how to get DO to do that?

-sri (August 30, 2007, 01:55 PM)

Lunch is not on the table yet so I dashed back in here! Try this setting:



I'm not sure that it will work as you want it to, but it *looks* like this is the setting.

2. 'Extract', 'Add to zip' etc buttons are functioning in the opposite pane as opposed to the the pane containing the items on which the functions were performed. For ex.: if I select two files in the left pane and hit 'Add to zip' button, the newly created zip is in the right pane, not left. Any idea as to how to fix this?

Yes... this is a feature I generally LOVE (in different contexts mind you, such as "Create shortcut" operations as you can have the source and target folders open and the shortcut is automatically created in the target...). I'm not sure how to change this behaviour - a quick search of the settings folder didn't enlighten me - but I'll look into it more closely later on today/this evening.

Best,

Mike

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General Software Discussion / Re: File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 02:04 PM »

Thanks for posting and getting the ball rolling, Sri and Armando (you posted while I was writing this).

Sri, your best bet is to head over to the DOpus resource forums. Someone there will be able to sort you out in no time! DOpus is amazing but even with the "usability" updates in 9 has a steep learning curve. I'm being "summoned" to the lunch table so will have to defer looking into your DOpus questions until later.

Armando - Dopus can for a start. Powerdesk offers to the do the same (I took advantage of the still current $9.95 offer on version 6) but I haven't investigated whether it lives up to the claim!

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Living Room / Re: How do you organise your 'My Documents' folder

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 01:58 PM »

Yeah, that's the short version?! Actually, it's impressive. I shoot for simplicity in my organization, though I know that my methods are more complex than I *think*, because I do it automatically and haven't given it much thought in a long time. app, I'm also impressed that you're able to articulate and explain what you do so clearly - 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Check&Get support blows chunks

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 01:51 PM »

I should offer thanks, too, for Martin's continued participation in the DC forums. I've really appreciated his balanced contributions to the discussions of Website Watcher and its competitors - 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: xplorer², a powerful windows file manager and explorer replacement / alternative

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 01:45 PM »

Hi folks. I've started a thread in the General Sofware forum for a more, well, general discussion of file managers/windows explorer replacements. So if you've been champing at the bit to comment on something peripheral to the subject of Xplorer2, here's your chance!

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General Software Discussion / File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...

« Last post by Darwin on August 30, 2007, 01:43 PM »

I've been following this thread about Xplorer² with real interst but note that at times it has veered off significantly from the original topic, which was to discuss mitzevo's excellent mini-review. So, in the spirit of providing a forum for open discussion of the overall category of file management software, I thought I'd start this thread. I'll be directing people in the Xplorer2 thread here and we'll see what happens!

I almost started a poll, but there are so many applications in this class, I'd never be able to cover them all! Here's a very incomplete list of some of the alternatives: XYPlorer (reviewed by Zaine here), DOpus, V-The File Viewer, Total Commander, Servant Salamander, DiskJockey File Viewer, PowerDesk, AccelMan, ZTreeWin, etc. I know I've missed some favourites, but it's a start. Anyone want to post, singing the praises of their favourite? Did I miss anyone's favourite? Post and let us know!