- Xfolders has been discontinued
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Developer
Kai Heitkamp
Xfolders supplements the Finder through its assistance of simply administrating of your files.
Features:
Features:
- Completely for Tiger re-written cocoa application.
- Uses the new technology of Mac OS X Tiger.
- Full integration of the Finder, thus support of all file operations from and to the Finder.
- Drag & Drop between both filelists and the Finder.
- Support for all important file operations.
- Info dialoge for simply changing the file and folder attributes.
- Intelligent path navigators for both file lists.
- Bookmarks & manager for
What's New
Version 1.6: Ported to Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard", Xfolders runs now on 10.4.x and 10.5.x
| Downloads:51,009 |
| Version Downloads:27,761 |
| Type:Utilities : File Management |
| License:Free |
| Date:31 Oct 2008 |
| Platform:PPC 32 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price:Free |
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Xfolders supplements the Finder through its assistance of simply administrating of your files.
Features:
Features:
- Completely for Tiger re-written cocoa application.
- Uses the new technology of Mac OS X Tiger.
- Full integration of the Finder, thus support of all file operations from and to the Finder.
- Drag & Drop between both filelists and the Finder.
- Support for all important file operations.
- Info dialoge for simply changing the file and folder attributes.
- Intelligent path navigators for both file lists.
- Bookmarks & manager for folders.
- Direct access to importend system utilities.
- Navigation with the keyboard ala Norton Commander.
- Integrated, detailed Spotlight search.
- Versatile search and compare possibilities.
- Zip archive support.
- Flat or 3D Unified look.
- Supports the following languages: English, German, Italian, French and Spanish.
- Optimized for the PowerPC G5 processor, but remains compatible to G3 and G4 processors!
- Universal binary: Compatible with Intel based Macs.
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Vulcan_ reviewed on 10 Jul 2013
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Check for updates doesn't work either.
Needs a tree view.
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You end up losing most familiar commands such as command-d, command-delete, command-up/down arrow and on and on. It is incredibly awkward to navigate from disk to disk as multiple disks/partitions are not normally shown.
If you try to copy 100 items to another folder and there is a problem, you have to click on a button in an error dialog 100 times!!!!! Once for each file. Unbelievable.
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Any chance of adding a search box or custom buttons to the top of the window?
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This is first miss I found so far just after 10 seconds of trying Xfolders and it makes it unusable for me, sorry.
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I personally prefer PathFinder among all of the browser alternatives. It addresses both of the concerns I raised above. It does use a reasonable number of resources and may seem a bit slower on older systems. I have a MacBook pro with full RAM, so that hasn't been an issue for me. Once I played with it for awhile, I found that it had so many useful features, I could never go back to the original Finder. (Having tabbed windows in PF is also a much nicer alternative to having too many open Finder windows.)
As for XFolders itself, it seems a nice program. But if you want a really good dual-pane program, look into either ForkLift or DiskOrder. (I also have a license for that program. In my experience, you'll get far better customer support, as well as product development, from ForkLift.)
jmgriff reviewed on 01 Jun 2006
IMO the best file-managers can be driven completely from the keyboard. What Xfolders needs most is more keyboard shortcuts ... especially for the options in the Path Navigator contextual menu (e.g. to swap source/destination and 'Other Folder'). This applies equally to the favourites manager, where it doesn't seem to be possible to select favourites by the keyboard alone.
I suspect most of the potential users of this software don't want to use a mouse ...... ;) Look at the original Norton Commander to see what is possible.
Comparison to PathFinder is inappropriate in my view. With the dire state of the Finder, what Mac OS X needs is a fast, lean and mean application that confines itself to *managing files*. Xfolders could be that app if the user-interaction was made more efficient and intuitive.
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So, please don't generalize that "most" users would prefer keyboard shortcuts.
I'm not saying you shouldn't be able to use the mouse, but good keyboard accessibility would greatly raise this applications usefulness.
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JimW reviewed on 27 May 2006
Then there is the prompting - at least for "More" and "Delete." I found no way to turn off the warnings for each and every operation. Gets really annoying when you are trying to restructure and cleanup folders to have to confirm each operation.
Finally their is the problem with "Move." I could not figure out how to move a file from the left to a closed folder on the right without first opening up the destination folder.
So if you are trying to reorganize files and folders quickly, this does not seem to be the tool to use for this.
FYI: It also crashed on me a couple of times.
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dkagolf rated on 08 Oct 2012