If I had known about this file manager and if it had been as advanced as Directory Opus was back in 2008 (when I invested in it), I might not have gone with Directory Opus.

Well, from what I can see, it now is, and can do pretty much everything I need DOpus to do…and for free.

It has so many features, I really don’t know where to begin. So I’ll use their list.

Layout

• Dual Panel
• Tabs
• Commander styled keyboard/mouse setup
• Windows Explorer styled keyboard/mouse setup
• Customizable colors
• Customizable keyboard
• Customizable mouse
• Clickable crumbbar
• Command line field for quick commands
• Quick launch bar
• Alias
• Button panel
• Log window

File System Browser

• Fast Selection/Deselection of multiple files using filters
• Set view filter to minimize files that should be shown.
• Go to next/previous sibling folder with ctrl+pgup/pgdn
• Load/Save current selection to memory or file
• Restore previous copy/move selection with num+/
• Compare panel and select Duplicates, Missing, Newest
• Hotpath to fast go to user defined paths
• Back/Forward to go to location in previously visited
• History button to show the latest location you been at for fast access
• Command line command to fast go to path
• Edit path field to change path
• Disconnect usb/remote device from inside Multi Commander
• Quick search window to do search in place for file/folders
• Show files and folder in detailed or list or thumbnail list mode

File System

• Browse local hard drives
• Browse network servers/shares
• Plug-ins expands the file system.
• FTP (with SSL/TLS Support)
• Browse the Registry as a file system
• Browse archives (Zip, 7-Zip, Rar, Tar, gz, bz2 )
• Show file properties as columns

File Operations

• All file operations are run in background. Do not hang/block the main window.
• Delete files and folder
• Delete to recycle bin
• Delete files inside archives (eg. Zip)
• Copy
• Move
• Rename
• Multi-Rename

Copy / Move File Operations

• Filters to include or exclude files and folders.
• Tweak read/write strategy (buffers,chunks, read/write option, Async/sync, ... )
• Keep broken/unfinished files.
• Keep file and folder date
• Copy/Move Plugins like Auto Sort, Auto Unpack, Content copy
• Preset
• Auto load of preset based on path

Unpack

• Unpack (Zip, 7Zip, Rar, tar,gz,bz2, tar.gz, tar.bz2 )
• Unpack filter
• Unpack archives into individual folders

Pack

• Pack (Zip, 7Zip, tar,gz,bz2, tar.gz, tar.bz2 )
• Using filters
• Pack folders into individual files

File Viewer

• Can view files of any size with minimal memory usage.
• Highlighing
• Line numbers
• Wordwrap, both dynamic and fixed
• Auto load if file is changed.
• Customize colors and background
• View as Ascii, UTF8, Unicode, Binary , Hex
• Find substring in text
• Copy selection to clipboard or save to file
• Clickable web links
• Keyboard navigation ( ctrl+n )

Tools / Misc

• Find opened/locked files. Find what process has a specific file open.
• Change the date and time of a folder so it gets the time of the latest file in that folder.
• Change file attribute , date and time
• Show folder size in file system browser.
• Rename multiple files by replace substring in name
• Run Multi Commander from Portable/USB device
• Backup and restore of Multi Commander settings
• Multi Update automatically updates Multi Commander to latest version
• Portable. Can be installed on USB device. Will not save anything on the host computer.

Clipboard

• Send file name with or without full path to clipboard
• Send comma separated list of all selected files to the clipboard
• Image information in clipboard (screen capture) can be save as JPG/PNG/BMP with ctrl+v (paste)
• Text information in clipboard can be save to text file with ctrl+v (paste)

Convert Files

• Convert text file to/from Unix/Windows/Mac format
• Reformat or compact xml files.
• Base64 encode/decode files.

Links

• Wizard that helps you create Junctions\Symlinks\Hardlinks
• File system browser will flow links.
• Shows Link target in file system browser.

File Security

• Take ownership of files/folders
• Remove file permission for all users on files/folders
• Add permission to user/group for files/folders

Audio Tools

• Remove ID3 meta data from mp3
• Export ID3 data to text file.
• Show MP3 ID3 Information
• Show ID3 data as columns in the file system browser
• Show aggregated genre column of folders ( will scan 3 folders down)

Picture Tools

• Convert pictures to JPEG/PNG/BMP
• Rotate/Flip pictures
• Auto rotate pictures according to EXIF information
• Lossless rotation of jpg
• Preserve file dates.
• Strip EXIF Information from pictures
• Export EXIF information from pictures to text file
• Adjust EXIF Date information in pictures by changing the time -/+ X minutes.
• Adjust Pictures file date to the date of the EXIF date information
• Show EXIF data column in the file system browser
• GPS Exif column is clickable and will show location in Google Maps.

Video Tools

• Show Movie Information like rating, genre (and more) as columns on movie files
• Get Movie Information from IMDB and RottenTomato

Search

• Exclude folders from search
• Search by looking for file content, file attributes, file size, file time
• Limit subfolder search levels.
• Minimize you search result by searching in the result.
• Remove items or group of items from search result with context menu
• Save/load search criteria
• Save/load search result
• Delete/Copy/Move/View from search result
• Multiple search tabs

File Verifier

• Verify .SFV (crc32), MD5 files
• Create SFV / MD5
• Verify CRC/MD5/SHA1 code against a file.
• Option to rename all bad files to *.bad
• Option to delete all bad files
• Auto start verify if double click on .sfv file in the file system browser

Plugin and extensions

• File System plugin ( eg., Registry , FTP, Zip, Rar )
• File Properties plugin (for showing file properties in columns ), (Eg Showing EXIF or ID3 meta information)
• Copy/Move File Operations Plugins ( eg. Auto Unpack, Auto sorting files )
• Application extensions. Expand Multi Commander with new utilities/tools.

And much more…

I’d put up screen shots, but you can find them here: http://multicommander.com/ 

Multi Commander works on Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / Server 2008 (R2) / Windows 7 / Windows 8.x / Server 2012 (R2)

The software is available as a portable version or setup version.

Download: http://multicommander.com/ 

Source:

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/02/03/file-manager-multi-commander-5-0-is-out/?_m=3n%2e0038%2e1508%2ehj0ao01hy5%2e1k93