- #REPLACING FINDER WITH COMMANDER ONE PDF#
- #REPLACING FINDER WITH COMMANDER ONE ARCHIVE#
- #REPLACING FINDER WITH COMMANDER ONE PRO#
- #REPLACING FINDER WITH COMMANDER ONE PC#
- #REPLACING FINDER WITH COMMANDER ONE ZIP#
#REPLACING FINDER WITH COMMANDER ONE PRO#
The Pro version adds access to your Dropbox, Google Drive and Amazon S3 accounts, the ability to mount devices (ie, hard drives and USB drives plus cameras and camera cards), compression and extraction, a Terminal emulator, themes, process manager and an FTP manager.
#REPLACING FINDER WITH COMMANDER ONE ZIP#
It also has Zip support for file compression. Which version? The free version gives you the File Viewer, lists computers on your network, Root access, customisable hotkeys, fonts and colours, Brief mode and History and favourites.
You can also use its built-in compression support (zip, plus rar, tgz, 7z and more in the Pro version), view hex and binary files, it has a robust network browser for finding files on connected volumes, there’s root access, you can customise hotkeys for quick launches of your most-used features, and it has a history tool. You can quickly turn hidden files on and off with just a button in the top toolbar (not that easy, otherwise) and copy file paths. You can even use regular expressions for file selection. You can queue large, disk-intensive operations for delayed execution to queue up copies and backups. The box that opens when you mount a disk image or another volume is also not a C1 feature.īut with Commander, you can execute a mass file-rename when you move files, which administrators and IT people will appreciate. The result is a Finder addition rather than a replacement – Finder has a file picker in Open and Save As dialog boxes Command One does not. Why? Ah, because the spacebar is used to arbitrarily select files for a mass operation.īells and whistles - Basically, Commander One is a graphic user interface on the Unix commands that the real pros use in favour of the Finder. The binoculars icon for search … why not just a magnifying glass with is normal for almost everything else? And QuickLook doesn’t work with the spacebar-tap to launch full-resolution file previews: you have to actually click the QuickLook icon. Of course, you can do this in Finder but you have to have two folders open, or open in tabs in one window, or drag-and-drop from one onto another and wait for that somewhat off-putting springload feature to open that, and then perhaps several others in turn, which can be tedious, not to mention confusing when you let go at the wrong instant.īuttons along the top could do with a little work. The most obvious use is simply copying files from one hard drive/thumb drive/whatever to another pane-to-pane.
#REPLACING FINDER WITH COMMANDER ONE ARCHIVE#
The paid upgrade to Pro adds power user features including a process viewer with one-button access (sure, every Mac can do this via Activity Monitor, which is already in your Utilities folder in Applications), archive compression and extraction, a built-in FTP manager, and direct access to Dropbox accounts, MTP, or even iOS devices (if they’re connected by cable).
The free version works with local and network drives and supports search, preview and the ability to rename files during copy and move, which you cannot do with Finder. So, what is it? Commander One has a main window is split into side-by-side panes that can be used to act upon files and folders in multiple locations at once.
#REPLACING FINDER WITH COMMANDER ONE PDF#
Now I understand! Commander One is an attempt to bring that dual pane file management to Mac users, and it adds many power-user features while it does so.Įltima Software is a German development company that specialised in Windows apps to enable sharing of devices, over various types of networks (Ethernet, USB …) but I guess the company is seeing the writing on the wall (ever increasing numbers of switchers) to the point that it has had developers schooled in Apple’s new developer language Swift: that was used entirely to code Commander One.Īnd already Eltima’s product listing of Mac apps is impressive: SyncMate, Elmedia Player (which is a more fully featured QuickTime-like player that even lsts you download YouTube clips), Folx, PhotoBulk, Airy, Swordbox, SyncMate 4, Recover PDF Password, USB Network Gate, Typeeto, Flexihub, Unclouder, Flash Decompiler Trillix, Flash Optimizer and of course Commander One. Therefore, in some ways I was not well qualified to talk about Commander One, since I didn’t really know what ‘dual-pane file managers’ were and why Windows users like them so much.
#REPLACING FINDER WITH COMMANDER ONE PC#
We in the Apple world have always called these people ‘Switchers’, and although I’ve never used a PC except in the library, I’ve had to learn a few PC-like things just so I know what to point out to those people who are changing to Mac and are feeling a little lost. So while people are ditching their PCs, they’re buying Macs in seemingly ever-increasing numbers. Computer sales are falling everywhere – except for Apple.
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