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