blog: battle of the file managers

[nikos]

here's the comment area for today's blog article
www.zabkat.com/blog/27May07.htm

[RickyF]

I expected these results  

[nikos]

obviously i have a vested interest here but i assure you the results and tests are 100% genuine. All the compared programs are out there for everybody to reproduce the tests. This is exact science

if you can think of more objective tests just name them and i'll have a round #2 of the battle next week

[fgagnon]

No surprises for me, either.

But I have a suggestion regarding the presentation of the Who gets it done fastest table...
Instead of hiding the reason for TC's "win" at the end of the second paragraph below the table, there should two rows added to the table indication the accuracy rate for each search for "pipa"
I will bet that most folks will just look at the table and not read the following words in full.

[nikos]

i'm sure there's going to be some plugin for TC to extend its functionality for office & PDF, these guys have plugins for everything. Then we can see how fast it is in equal terms

[ckit]

Congratulations, Nikos!
xplorer2 pro seems to fare really well against others
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[Gandolf]

Have you seen this Nikos? It's in the Help file for AcuteFinder.

Recommended tools

Through the years, we have grown accustomed to various tools for file and disk management, many of which function very well with AcuteFinder.  Some of them are listed below, along with a short description. All those tools are highly recommended and worth their asking price many times over.

· WinZip for handling of file archives, like ZIP-files.  Undoubtedly, the best of the breed in this category.
· ExamDiff from PrestoSoft to compare folders and files
· Hex Workshop from BreakPoint software for viewing and editing files in hex mode
· UltraEdit-32 from IDM Computer Solutions for editing of text documents
· IrfanView by Irfan Skiljan for viewing of image files
· Xplorer2 from Zabkat.com for folder comparison, super file finder and a lot more
· Diskeeper and Undelete from Diskeeper Corporation software, to defragment disks and to recover deleted files
· Norton Utilities and Norton AntiVirus from Symantec
· F-prot virus scanner from FRISK Software International

On our website, www.acutefinder.com, you will find a more details about these programs, and other programs that we recommend to all serious PC users.

[WimdeLange]

How about a test where a directory is read which contains a big number of files (say 50.000 or more).

Interesting facts, time to read it, memory usage after reading, sorting on other criteria. And include windows itself (in the reading and sorting).

On our network we have some rather large directories and I'm always wondering what is the best tool to manipulate them. I'm using xplorer2 (what else), but the waiting takes sometimes a lot of time (time to get coffee.....).
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  Wim de Lange

[nikos]

ok, we can have a round 2 with more stats -- although i don't have a folder with 50000 items! Have you tried windows explorer in those network folders, is it faster than x2? Also make sure you aren't sorting on a "slow" column

[WimdeLange]

[nikos]

slow i guess is whatever you find slow during use! Usually the explorer (non-stock) columns are slow, the furhter down you go the worse