Comparison of file managers

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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of notable file managers.

## Contents

* 1 General information
* 2 Operating system support
* 2.1 Cross-platform file managers
* 2.2 Mac-only file managers
* 2.3 *nix-only file managers
* 2.4 Windows-only file managers
* 2.5 iOS-only file managers
* 2.6 Android-only file managers
* 3 Manager views
* 4 Network protocols
* 5 File features
* 6 Browsing features
* 7 Search features
* 8 Extensibility
* 9 Notes
* 10 External links

## General information

Name  | Developer  | Initial release  | Platform  | Latest release  | License | Cost

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Altap Salamander | Altap  |  | 1997-08-15  | Windows  |  |  | GPL-2.0 | No cost
Commander One | Eltima Software  |  | 2015-08-04  | macOS  |  |  | Proprietary | US$29.95[lower-alpha 1]
Directory Opus | Jonathan Potter
GPSoftware  | 1  | 1990-01-03  | AmigaOS  | 4.16[1] | 2001-07-04  | GPL-2.0 | No cost
AmigaOS  | 5.91[2] | 2015-08-30  | APL
AROS
MorphOS
6  | 2001-06-18  | Windows  | 12.27[3] | 2022-03-21  | Proprietary | A$49 Lite
A$89 Pro
Dired | Integral part of Emacs.
Part of the GNU project.  |  | ~1976[4] |  |  |  | GPL-3.0-or-later | No cost
Dolphin | KDE | 0.5  | 2006-06-07  | BSD  |  |  | GPL-2.0-or-later | No cost
Linux
macOS
Unix
Windows
DOS Navigator | Ritlabs  | 0.90  | 1991  | DOS  |  |  | BSD-3-Clause | No cost
OS/2
Windows
DOS Shell | Microsoft / IBM |  | 1988  | DOS  |  | 1998  | Proprietary | Bundled[lower-alpha 2]
Doszip Commander | nidud  | 2.53  | 2014  | DOS  | v2.66  | 2024  | GPL | No cost
Win32  | v3.90  | 2025
Win64  | v3.91
Double Commander | Alexander Koblov[lower-alpha 3] |  | 2007  | BSD  |  |  | GPL-2.0-or-later | No cost
Linux
macOS
Unix
Windows
emelFM2 | tooar  |  | 2003-09-06  | BSD  |  |  | GPL-3.0-or-later | No cost
Linux
Unix
Explorer++  | David Ercig  |  | 2008-01-08  | Windows  | 1.4.0 [5] | 2024-01-28  | GPL-3.0-only | No cost
Far Manager | Eugene Roshal
Far Group  |  | 1996  | Windows (Linux, Mac, BSD via far2l)  |  |  | BSD-3-Clause | No cost
File Explorer[lower-alpha 4] | Microsoft |  | 1995-08-24  | Windows  |  | 2015-07-29  | Proprietary | Bundled[lower-alpha 5]
File Manager | Microsoft
Ian Ellison-Taylor  |  | 1990  | Windows  |  |  | MIT[6] | Bundled[lower-alpha 5]
Files (Apple) | Apple Inc. |  | 2017-09-19  | macOS  |  |  | Proprietary | Bundled[lower-alpha 6]
Files by Google | Google LLC  |  | 2017-12-05  | Android  | 1.2263.598736326.1[7] | 2025-10-28  | Proprietary | No cost
GeoManager  | Berkeley Softworks[lower-alpha 7]
Breadbox Ensemble[lower-alpha 8] |  | 1990  | GEOS  |  | 2009  | Proprietary | Bundled[lower-alpha 9]
Finder  | Apple Inc. |  | 1984-01  | macOS  | 10.10.5  | 2015-08-13  | Proprietary | Bundled[lower-alpha 10]
ForkLift  | BinaryNights  |  | 2007-06-01  | macOS  |  |  | Proprietary | US$29.95[lower-alpha 1]
gentoo | Emil Brink  |  | ?  |  |  |  | GPL-2.0-only | No cost
GNOME Commander | GNOME Commander  |  | 2001-09  |  |  |  | GPL-2.0-or-later | No cost
GNOME Files[lower-alpha 11] | Eazel |  | 2001-04-11  |  |  |  | GPL-3.0-or-later | No cost
Konqueror | KDE  |  | 2000-10  |  |  |  | GPL-2.0-or-later | No cost
Krusader | Krusader Krew  |  | 2000-07-11  |  |  |  | GPL-2.0-or-later | No cost
Midnight Commander[lower-alpha 12] | Miguel de Icaza
GNU  |  | 1994-05[lower-alpha 13] |  |  |  | GPL-3.0-or-later | No cost
muCommander | Maxence Bernard  |  | 2002-02-17  | Windows, Linux, macOS  |  |  | GPL-3.0-or-later | No cost
Nemo | Linux Mint | 1.0.0  | 2012-07  |  |  |  | GPL-2.0-or-later | No cost[lower-alpha 14]
nnn | Arun Prakash Jana  |  | 2017-04-13  |  |  |  | BSD-2-Clause | No cost
Nomad.NET | Eugene Sichkar  | 2.2.0.537 beta  | 2008-08-14  |  | 3.2.0.2890  | 2016-06-13  | Proprietary | No cost
Norton Commander | Peter Norton Computing
Symantec corporation  |  | 1986  | DOS  | 5.51  | 1998-07-01  | Proprietary | ?
Windows  | 2.01  | 1999-02-01
Path Finder[lower-alpha 15] | Cocoatech  |  | 2001-04  | macOS  | 9.1  | 2020-03-24  | Proprietary | US$36.00
PathMinder | Albert Nurick
Brittain Fraley  |  | 1984  | DOS  | 4.11  | 1988  | Proprietary | US$39.95
PCManFM | Hong Jen Yee  |  | 2006-01-09  |  | 1.3.2  | 2021-02-05  | GPL-2.0-or-later | No cost
PC Shell  | Central Point Software |  | 1986  |  |  |  | Proprietary | Bundled[lower-alpha 16]
ranger | Roman Zimbelmann  |  | 2010-06-09  | BSD  |  |  | GPL-3.0-or-later | No cost
Linux
macOS
ROX-Filer  | Thomas Leonard et al.  |  | 2000-03-10  |  |  |  | GPL-2.0-or-later | No cost
Samsung My Files  | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.  |  | 2010  | Android  | 15.2.04.2[8] | 2025-09-21  | Proprietary | Bundled[lower-alpha 17]
SpaceFM | IgnorantGuru  | 0.5.0  | 2012-01-13  |  |  |  | GPL-3.0-or-later | No cost
STDU Explorer | STDUtility  |  | 2009-03-23  | Windows  | 1.0.465  | 2012-05-24  | Proprietary | No cost
Tabbles | Yellow blue soft UAB  |  | 2009-08-01  | Windows  | 3.1.29  | 2016-08-12  | Proprietary | US$29.95[lower-alpha 1]
Thunar | Xfce |  | 2006-01-22  |  |  |  | GPL-2.0-or-later | No cost
Total Commander[lower-alpha 18] | Christian Ghisler  | 1.0  | 2012-05-18  | Android  |  |  | Proprietary | No cost
1.00d  | 1993-09-25  | Windows  |  |  | CHF40, €37, US$42[lower-alpha 1]
ViewMAX | Digital Research / Novell | 1.0  | 1990  | DR-DOS  | 3.0  | 1993  | GPL-2.0-only[lower-alpha 19] | Bundled[lower-alpha 20]
Volkov Commander | Vsevolod Volkov  |  | 1992  | DOS  |  |  | Proprietary | Depends[lower-alpha 21]
WinSCP | WinSCP |  | 2000-09-30  | Windows  |  |  | GPL-3.0-only | No cost
Worker | Ralf Hoffmann  | 1.0.0  | 1999-03-06  | Unix  |  |  | GPL-2.0-or-later | No cost
Xandros File Manager  | Xandros Corporation  |  | ?  |  | 4.2  | 2007-07-26  | Proprietary | Bundled[lower-alpha 22]
Xfe | Roland Baudin  |  | 2002  |  |  |  | GPL | No cost
Xfile | Rixstep  |  | 2003-03-02  | macOS  | 2.1.0.10  | 2010-02-14  | Proprietary | US$79.00[lower-alpha 23]
Xfm | Simon Marlow
Albert Gräf
Till Straumann
Robert Vogelgesang
Juan D. Martin  |  | 1992  |  |  |  | GPL-2.0-or-later | No cost
xplorer² | Nikos Bozinis  |  | 2004-06-10  | Windows  | 5.4.0.2  | 2023-06-14  | Proprietary | US$29.95 - 49.95[lower-alpha 24]
XTree | Jeffery C. Johnson  |  | 1985-04-01  | DOS  |  | 1992  | Proprietary | US$39.95
| 1992  | Windows  |  | 1992
XYplorer | Donald Lessau  |  | 1997  | Windows  | 20.80.0100  | 2020-02-13  | Proprietary | US$39.95 - 79.95[lower-alpha 25]
ZTreeWin | Kim Henkel  |  | 1996  | Windows  | 2.4.217  | 2023-11-23  | Proprietary | US$29.95 (1-4)
Name  | Developer  | Initial release  | Platform  | Latest release  | License | Cost
Version  | Date  | Version  | Date

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Demo, trial or lite version available at no cost.
2. ↑ Part of MS-DOS/PC DOS.
3. ↑ Alexander Koblov also known as alexx2000.
4. ↑ File Explorer previously known as Windows Explorer.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Part of Microsoft Windows.
6. ↑ Part of iOS.
7. ↑ Berkeley Softworks later renamed to GeoWorks Corporation.
8. ↑ Breadbox Ensemble founded as Breadbox Computer Company.
9. ↑ Part of PC/GEOS
10. ↑ Part of macOS
11. ↑ GNOME Files formerly known as Nautilus.
12. ↑ Midnight Commander also known as mc.
13. ↑ The exact history is unknown. This date comes from changelog entries in the src/TODO file in the Git repository (SHA1: eb6b3842a). But it is probably earlier than that. Dec 1997 was release v4.1 already.
14. ↑ Nemo is part of the Cinnamon (Desktop Environment).
15. ↑ Path Finder originally known as SNAX.
16. ↑ Part of PC Tools for DOS.
17. ↑ Part of OneUI for Samsung devices.
18. ↑ Total Commander originally known as Windows Commander.
19. ↑ ViewMAX was originally proprietary.
20. ↑ Part of DR-DOS
21. ↑ Shareware / Freeware
22. ↑ Part of Xandros Desktop
23. ↑ With 80+ other applications.
24. ↑ US$29.95 Pro, US$49.95 Ultimate.[lower-alpha 1]
25. ↑ US$39.95 Standard License Pro, US$79.95 Lifetime License Pro.[lower-alpha 1][9]

## Operating system support

### Cross-platform file managers

This table shows the operating systems that the file managers can run on, without emulation.

File manager  | DOS | OS/2 & eCS | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD  | Unix | AmigaOS | OpenVMS

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Directory Opus | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes[10] | No
Dired | Yes[11] | Yes[12] | Yes[13] | Yes[14] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[15] | Yes[16]
Dolphin | No  | No  | Needs KDE[17] | Yes[18] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
Double Commander | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
DOS Navigator | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
emelFM2 | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
GNOME Commander | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
Konqueror | No  | No  | Needs KDE[17] | Yes[18] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
Krusader | No  | No  | No  | Needs X | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
Midnight Commander | Yes  | No  | Yes[19] | Yes[20] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
muCommander | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes
nnn | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
GNOME Files (Nautilus) | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
Nemo | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
PathMinder | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
PCManFM | No  | Needs POSIX-compliant platform  | Needs POSIX-compliant platform  | Needs POSIX-compliant platform  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes
Ranger | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
ROX-Filer  | No  | No  |  |  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
Thunar | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
Total Commander | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Volkov Commander | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Worker | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
Xandros File Manager  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | No  | No
Xfe | No  | Needs X | Needs X | Needs X | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Needs X[21] | Yes
Xfm | No  | Needs X | Needs X | Needs X | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes
Far Manager | Needs HX DOS Extender  | No  | Yes  | Yes (far2l)  | Yes (far2l)  | Yes (far2l)  | ?  | No  | No
ZTreeWin | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
File manager  | DOS | OS/2 & eCS | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD  | Unix | AmigaOS | OpenVMS

### Mac-only file managers

* Finder
* ForkLift
* Path Finder
* Xfile
* Commander One

### *nix-only file managers

* Demos Commander
* emelFM2
* Gentoo file manager
* Konqueror
* Krusader
* nnn
* Nautilus
* Nemo
* PCMan File Manager
* Ranger
* ROX-Filer
* Thunar
* SpaceFM
* Worker

### Windows-only file managers

* Altap Salamander
* Directory Opus[10]
* Explorer++
* File Manager (Windows)
* Nomad.NET
* STDU Explorer
* Total Commander[22][23]
* File Explorer
* xplorer²
* XYplorer
* ZTreeWin

### iOS-only file managers

* Files (Apple)

### Android-only file managers

* Files by Google
* Ghost Commander

## Manager views

Icon views represent files and folders as large icons.

Details + thumbnails views and favs-panel (bottom left)

Information about what common file manager views are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).

Note that the "Column View" does not refer to the Miller Columns browsing / visualization technique that can be applied to tree structures / folders. Template:Sort-under

File manager  | Family  | UI | Icon view  | List view  | Column view  | Thumbnails  | Details + Thumbs  | Grouping  | Content dependent[m 1] | Twin panel  | Favorites / Bookmark  | Panel tabs

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Altap Salamander | Orthodox  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Partial  | No
Commander One | Orthodox  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
Demos Commander  | Orthodox  | Text  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
Directory Opus | Orthodox  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Dired | Directory editor | Text  | Yes, on GUI[24] | Yes  | ?  | Yes, on GUI[24] | Yes, on GUI[24] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes, one or more  | Partial (bookmarks)  | Yes (optional tab bar) [25]
Dolphin | Navigational  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Double Commander | Orthodox  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
DOS Navigator | Orthodox  | Text  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
emelFM2 | Orthodox  | GUI | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes[m 2] | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | ?  | No
FAR Manager  | Orthodox  | Text[m 3] | Partial[m 4] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[26] | Partial[m 4] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial [m 5]
File Manager (Windows) | Orthodox  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes[citation needed] | No  | No
Files (Apple) |  | GUI | Yes  |  |  | Yes  | Yes  |  |  |  |  |
Files by Google |  | GUI |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Finder  | Spatial / Miller Columns  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes, with Cover Flow | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes
ForkLift  | Orthodox  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
gentoo | Orthodox  | GUI | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
GNOME Commander | Orthodox  | GUI | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | ?  | Yes
Konqueror | Navigational / Orthodox  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Krusader | Orthodox  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Midnight Commander | Orthodox  | Text  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
GNOME Files (Nautilus) | Navigational / Spatial | GUI | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes
Nemo | Navigational / Spatial | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes,press[F3]  | Yes  | Yes
Nomad.NET | Orthodox  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Partial, Manual  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes, Shared
Path Finder | Navigational  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
PCManFM | Navigational  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
ROX-Filer  | Spatial | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
STDU Explorer | Navigational  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Total Commander | Orthodox  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes In viewing  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Thunar | Navigational  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Volkov Commander | Orthodox  | Text  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
Windows Explorer  | Navigational / Spatial | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes [m 6] | Yes  | Partial [m 7] | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No
Worker | Orthodox  | GUI | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Xandros File Manager  | Navigational  | GUI | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Xfe | Hybrid Navigational  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No
Xfm | Spatial | GUI | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | No  | ?  | No
xplorer² | Hybrid Navigational / Orthodox  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[m 8] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
XYplorer | Hybrid Navigational / Orthodox  | GUI | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
ZTreeWin | Orthodox  | Text  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Partial  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No
File manager  | Family  | UI | Icon view  | List view  | Column view  | Thumbnails  | Details + Thumbs  | Grouping  | Content dependent  | Twin panel  | Favorites / Bookmark  | Panel tabs

1. ↑ Content Dependent (System) refers to a system which attempts to detect the dominant type of files in that folder and then select the most appropriate view mode for you automatically.
2. ↑ Optional image thumbnailer plugin since v0.3.4 (24/5/2007)
3. ↑ The text interface, which can be partially graphical with some plugins, such as embedded image/video viewers, for example. But the text interface is only emulated with the ConEmu mod - it is graphical and TrueColor in reality.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 With the ConEmu mod or plugins.
5. ↑ Via multi-panel plugins or the ConEmu mod.
6. ↑ Column view is called Details view in Windows Explorer
7. ↑ Windows 7 introduces a Content view which shows details as well as thumbnails
8. ↑ Via "Mirrored Browsing" feature.

Twin-panel file managers have obligatory connected panels where action in one panel results in reaction in the second. Konqueror supports multiple panels divided horizontally, vertically or both, but these panels do not act as twin panels by default (the user has to mark the panels he wants to act as twin-panels).

## Network protocols

Information on what networking protocols the file managers support. Note that many of these protocols might be supported, in part or in whole, by software layers below the file manager, rather than by the file manager itself; for example, the macOS Finder doesn't implement those protocols, and the Windows Explorer doesn't implement most of them, they just make ordinary file system calls to access remote files, and Konqueror either uses ordinary file system calls or KIO slave calls to access remote files. Some functions, such as browsing for servers or shares, might be implemented in the file manager even if most functions are implemented below the file manager.

File manager  | SMB/CIFS | WebDAV | NFS  | AFP | FTP | FISH/SSH

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Altap Salamander | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes
Commander One | Yes[n 1] | Yes  | Yes[n 1] | Yes[n 1] | Yes  | Yes
Directory Opus | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes (SFTP & SSL[n 2])
Dired | Yes[n 1] | Yes[n 1] | Yes[n 1] | No  | Yes  | Yes[n 1]
Dolphin | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
Double Commander | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?
emelFM2 | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | ?
Far Manager | Yes  | Partial[n 3] | Partial[n 4] | No  | Yes  | Yes[n 5]
File Manager | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Files (Apple) |  |  |  |  |  |
Files by Google |  |  |  |  |  |
Finder  | Yes[n 1] | Yes[n 1] | Yes[n 1] | Yes[n 1] | Partial[n 1] | No
ForkLift  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
GNOME Commander | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes
Konqueror | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Krusader | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes
muCommander | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
Midnight Commander | Yes[n 6] | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes
GNOME Files (Nautilus) | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Nemo | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
Nomad.NET | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
Path Finder | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes (Read Access)  | No
PCManFM | Yes[n 7] | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
ROX-Filer  | Yes[n 1] | Yes[n 1] | Yes[n 1] | Yes[n 1] | Yes[n 1] | Yes[n 1]
Total Commander | Yes  | Yes[n 5] | Partial[n 4] | No  | Yes  | Yes
Thunar | Yes[n 7] | Yes[n 7] | Yes[n 7] | No  | Yes[n 7] | Yes[n 7]
Worker | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes[n 8] | ?
Windows Explorer  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[n 9] | No  | Yes  | No
Xandros File Manager  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Xfe | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Xfm | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
xplorer² | Yes  | Yes[n 10] | Partial[n 4] | No  | Yes  | No
XYplorer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[n 9] | No  | Yes  | No
ZTreeWin | Yes  | Partial[n 11] | Partial[n 4] | No  | Partial[n 11] | Partial[n 12]
File manager  | SMB/CIFS | WebDAV | NFS  | AFP | FTP | FISH/SSH

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 Support is provided by the underlying operating system.
2. ↑ Requires an additional licence (purchased separately)
3. ↑ WebDAV support in these file managers requires the installation of NetDrive or WebDrive.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 NFS support in these file managers requires the installation of Services for UNIX.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Support is provided via a free third-party plugin.
6. ↑ From version 4.8.28 support for Samba will be removed. "Coming soon: 4.8.28; what's new.". https://midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.28.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Support is provided by GVfs
8. ↑ Support is provided by AVfs
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 NFS support requires either the freely downloadable Windows Services for UNIX or is built-in starting with Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate editions as Subsystem for Unix-based applications (SUA).
10. ↑ WebDAV is supported via Microsoft Windows' built-in Network Places/Mapped Drive functionality.
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 FTP support in these file managers requires the installation of NetDrive or WebDrive.
12. ↑ SSH support in these file managers requires the installation of SftpDrive or WebDrive.

## File features

Information on what basic file features the file managers support. Template:Sort-under

File Manager  | Undo/redo file operation  | File compression  | File encryption  | Rename busy files  | File preview  | File coloring filter [27] | File selection filter  | Paste clipboard as file  | File and folder reports  | ACL (Access control list)  | Mass rename [28] | Run executable files

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Commander One | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?
Directory Opus | Yes  | Yes  | Partial  | Partial  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?
Dired | Partial [31] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Dolphin | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Double Commander | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?
emelFM2 | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
FAR Manager  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial [32] | Yes  | Plugin  | Plugin  | ?
File Manager | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Files (Apple) |  | Yes  |  |  | Yes  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Files by Google |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Finder  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
ForkLift  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
GNOME Commander | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | Yes  | ?
Konqueror | Partial [33] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[34] | Yes
Krusader | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes[34] | Yes
Midnight Commander | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[35] | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
GNOME Files (Nautilus) | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Partial [36] | No  | Yes  | No  | No [37]
Nemo | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | No  | Yes
Nomad.NET | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial  | ?
Path Finder | ?  | Yes  | No [38] | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?
PCManFM | No  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes
ROX-Filer  | ?  | With helper applications  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | ?
STDU Explorer | ?  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | ?
Thunar | Yes  | Yes (via plugin)  | Yes (via plugin)  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Total Commander | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Log file  | Yes  | Yes
Windows Explorer  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[39] | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Partial [40] | No  | Yes [41] | Partial  | Yes
Worker | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes
Xandros File Manager  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Xfe | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?
Xfm | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
xplorer² | No  | Yes  | Partial [39] | Partial  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes [42] | Yes  | Yes
XYplorer | Yes  | Yes  | Partial [39] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
ZTreeWin | ?  | Yes  | Partial [43] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?
File Manager  | Undo/redo file operation  | File compression  | File encryption  | Rename busy files  | File preview  | File coloring filter  | File selection filter  | Paste clipboard as file  | File and folder reports  | ACL (Access control list)  | Mass rename  | Run executable files

## Browsing features

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File manager  | Symbolic links | Script error: No such module "Vertical header". | Script error: No such module "Vertical header". | Slideshows  | Shows combined size of selected directories  | Branch sizes  | Directory compare  | Synchronizer  | Find as you type (Type-ahead find) | Embedded/integrated terminal  | For directories, size column shows:

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Commander One | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes, in the PRO Pack[44] | DIR and total size including subdirectories
Directory Opus | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | DIR and total size including subdirectories
Dired | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes [45] | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[46] | Literal [browse 1]
DOS Navigator | No  | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes[47] | Yes  | Total size including subdirectories
Dolphin | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Number of entries
Double Commander | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | DIR
emelFM2 | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Literal [browse 1]
FAR Manager  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Partial [n 1] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial [48] | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Files (Apple) |  | ?  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Files by Google |  | ?  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Finder  | ?  | ?  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes
ForkLift  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | DIR and total size including subdirectories
GNOME Commander | ?  | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Konqueror | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes (with konq-plugin)  | Yes  | Yes (with kdiff3 plugin)  | Yes (with kdiff3 plugin)  | Yes  | Yes  | Folder only size (default) selectable to file count/total size
Krusader | ?  | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Midnight Commander | Yes  | ?  | Yes[49] | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes[50] | Yes  | Yes  | ?
muCommander | No[51] | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Partial, command execution only  | ?
GNOME Files (Nautilus) | ?  | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes, With Plugin[52][53] | Number of entries
Nemo | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes, with nemo-terminal extension
Nomad.NET | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes, via Plugin  | DIR and total size including subdirectories
Path Finder | ?  | ?  | No  | Yes  | Partial  | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes[54] | Yes
PCManFM | ?  | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Yes  | No, but there is a fork attempt[55] | Nothing
ROX-Filer  | ?  | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | ?  | No  | ?  | Yes, and browsing with tab completion  | No  | Nothing
Thunar | Yes  | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | Configurable
Total Commander | Yes[56] | ?  | Yes  | Yes In plugin  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | DIR and total size including subdirectories
Windows Explorer  | Partial[57] | Partial  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes (in folder tooltips)  | Partial  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?
Worker | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | No
Xandros File Manager  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | ?
Xfe | Yes  | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | No  | No  | ?
Xfile | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No[58] | ?
Xfm | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | ?
xplorer² | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[59] | ?
XYplorer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[60] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial  | Yes  | Yes[61] | Contents including subs
ZTreeWin | ?  | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?  | Selectable: number of entries or size (optional: including subs)
File manager  | Symbolic links | Script error: No such module "Vertical header". | Script error: No such module "Vertical header". | Slideshows  | Shows combined size of selected directories  | Branch sizes  | Directory compare  | Synchronizer  | Find as you type (Type-ahead find) | Embedded/integrated terminal  | For directories, size column shows:

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Literal - meaning the size of the directory file itself, not the number or sizes of the files it points to (commonly called its "contents"). Typically a few kilobytes.

1. ↑ Support is provided via a free third-party plugin.

## Search features

Information on what file searching features the file managers support. RegExp include the possibilities of nested Boolean searches, thus implicitly all file managers supporting RegExp search support also Boolean searches.

File manager  | File name [D 1] | File contents [D 2] | Basic metadata search [D 3] | All metadata search [D 4] | RegExp for contents  | Boolean (nesting levels)  | Fuzzy logic[D 5] | Save searches [D 6] | Refined searches [D 7]

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Commander One | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[s 2] | Yes[s 2] | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | No
Directory Opus | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Dired | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes [62] | Yes
Dolphin | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes
Double Commander | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No
emelFM2 | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Partial  | ?
FAR Manager  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[s 3] | Yes[s 3] | Yes[s 3] | Yes  | Yes
Files (Apple) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Files by Google |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Finder  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?
ForkLift  | Yes  | Partial  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | No
Konqueror | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes
Krusader | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[63] | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes
GNOME Files (Nautilus) | Yes  | ?  | Partial [s 4] | Partial [s 4] | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?
Nemo | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Nomad.NET | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes
Path Finder | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | No  | No
PCManFM | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
ROX-Filer  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | ?
Total Commander | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Partial [s 5]
Windows Explorer  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
Worker | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Xandros File Manager  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Xfe | Yes  | Yes[s 6] | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Xfile | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes
Xfm | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
xplorer² | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
XYplorer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[s 7]
ZTreeWin | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial  | Partial [s 8] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
File manager  | File name [D 1] | File contents [D 2] | Basic metadata search [D 3] | All metadata search [D 4] | RegExp for contents  | Boolean (nesting levels)  | Fuzzy logic [D 5] | Save searches [D 6] | Refined searches [D 7]

Column Definitions (D)

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 using wildcards, subfolders
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 using wildcards, case match, whole word match
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 size, date, time, attributes (read only, hidden, archivable, etc.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 [clarification needed] what/where is additional metadata?
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 [clarification needed] what is fuzzy logic and how is it useful?
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Ability to save templates containing all search settings (file filter, metadata requirements etc.). Results of saves searches are always live, so not the results but the search conditions are saved.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Also known as iterative searches. For example the ability to finish one search and then perform a new search a) only within these results (intersect the two result sets / the requirements of both searches have to be met), 2) adding to these results (combine both result sets to a bigger set) or 3) subtract from those results (original result set reduced by intersection of result sets).

Entry Notes (s)

1. ↑ Altap Salamander Search offers RegExp for defining the file content.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Support is provided by the underlying operating system.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Support is provided via a free third-party plugin.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Can integrate with Beagle to provide more searching functionality.
5. ↑ Search intersection
6. ↑ One can search for file contents using the Text Contains field in the search window.
7. ↑ After searching results, user can apply advanced visual filters to narrow down results.
8. ↑ ZTreeWin provides several context specific search syntaxes that are not pure regex

## Extensibility

Information on which parts of the application can be extended by plugins.

File manager  | Filesystem support  | Attribute columns  | File previews  | Metadata indexing  | Unicode support  | Visual themes

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Commander One | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
Directory Opus | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial  | Yes  | Yes
Dired | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Dolphin | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Double Commander | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Partial[e 1]
emelFM2 | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  |  | ?
Far Manager | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial  | Yes[e 2] | No
Files (Apple) |  |  | Yes  |  | Yes  |
Files by Google |  |  |  |  |  |
Finder  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[e 3] | Partial[e 4]
ForkLift  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes
Konqueror | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Krusader | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Partial  |  | Yes
Midnight Commander | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
GNOME Files (Nautilus) | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
Nemo | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Nomad.NET | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
Path Finder | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  |  | ?
PCManFM | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No
ROX-Filer  |  | No  | Yes  | No  |  | ?
Total Commander | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes In search tool  | Yes[e 5] | Yes[e 6]
Windows Explorer  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[64] | Yes  | Partial[e 4]
Worker | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?
Xandros File Manager  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Xfe | No  | Partial  | No  | No  | Partial  | Partial[e 7]
Xfile | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Xfm | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
xplorer² | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
XYplorer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
ZTreeWin | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No
File manager  | Filesystem support  | Attribute columns  | File previews  | Metadata indexing  | Unicode support  | Visual themes

1. ↑ User can change toolbar icons
2. ↑ In Far 2.0 & Far 3.0+
3. ↑ Unicode support depends on Mac OS version. Mac OS X's Finder includes full Unicode support, while Mac OS 8 and earlier does not. May be supported in >=8.1 and <=9.2 if using Unicode filesystems.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 File and folder icons customizable on OS level and via folder properties
5. ↑ Main change in Total Commander 7.50
6. ↑ User can manually change icon themes including toolbar, file and folder icons. User can also change the color scheme to a pre-defined one or manually pick a color for each element in preferences.
7. ↑ User can change icon themes in preferences, which change the toolbar, file and folder icons. User can also change the color scheme to a pre-defined one or manually pick a color for each element (in preferences).

## Notes

1. ↑ "Directory Opus 4 Research Project". http://dopus.free.fr/download.php.
2. ↑ "Dopus5". https://sourceforge.net/projects/dopus5allamigas/files/.
3. ↑ "Release History". https://www.gpsoft.com.au/help/opus12/index.html#!Documents/Release_History.htm.
4. ↑ Thomas E. Dickey. "Dating Dired". Adoption by emacs. https://invisible-island.net/ded/dating-dired.html.
5. ↑ "Release Explorer++ 1.4.0 · derceg/explorerplusplus" (in en). https://github.com/derceg/explorerplusplus/releases/tag/version-1.4.0.
6. ↑ Original Windows File Manager (winfile) with enhancements: Microsoft/winfile, Microsoft, 2019-02-21, https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile, retrieved 2019-02-21
7. ↑ "Files by Google - Apps on Google Play" (in en). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.nbu.files. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
8. ↑ "Samsung My Files - Apps on Google Play" (in en). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sec.android.app.myfiles. Retrieved October 29, 2025.
9. ↑ "XYplorer Purchase". https://www.xyplorer.com/purchase.php. }}
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Directory Opus 5.82 Magellan II is the last commercial version available for Amiga. Full and registered version has been released for free with the AmiKit distribution. Directory Opus 4 is maintained separately under an open source license.
11. ↑ "Info Node: (emacs)Dired". cmu.edu. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/info2www?(emacs)Dired.
12. ↑ "Emacs 20.6 under OS/2". Home.snafu.de. http://home.snafu.de/ohei/emacs/emacs206-os2.html.
13. ↑ "Emacs FAQ for MS Windows". Free Software Foundation. 2013-08-27. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html.
14. ↑ "Carbon Emacs Package". http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html.
15. ↑ "Archived copy". http://de5.aminet.net/util/gnu/em1934src.readme.
16. ↑ AaronHawley (2010-05-28). "Emacs On VMS". EmacsWiki. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsOnVMS.
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Projects/KDE on Windows/Installation - KDE TechBase". Techbase.kde.org. 2013-06-09. http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Installation.
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 "The MacPorts Project - Available Ports". MacPorts. http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=category&substr=kde4.
19. ↑ Cygwin or Win32 Native
20. ↑ Runs in text mode inside Terminal window
21. ↑ "Der Schwan-Clan". http://www.schwan-clan.de/index.php?lang=en&fr0=AmigaFrameNav.php?lang=en⊂=0&fr1=amiga/AmiCygnix.php?lang=en.
22. ↑ Windows 95 and later
23. ↑ Windows Mobile
24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Activating Image-Dired command in the graphical interface.
25. ↑ Tab-bar mode can be activated to show the tab-bar (else it will be hidden).
26. ↑ With ConEmu Far Manager plugin conemu-maximus5
27. ↑ Files matching certain user defined criteria (e.g. name pattern, attributes) are displayed in another color. Example: Since Windows 2000, the UI guide requires NTFS compressed files and folders displayed in blue, whereas uncompressed ones are black.
28. ↑ Mass Rename is a feature to rename large number of files in a convenient way and including a preview, see the screenshot for an example. Common options are subdirectory inclusion, wildcards, manual mode (offering to edit names as text files in editors), counters, time related fields (e.g. "date created"), path related fields (e.g. "parent directory name"), regular expressions, etc. See also: Batch renaming.
29. ↑ Altap Salamander offers to show only selected files and hide unselected ones, also in picture viewer, etc. For selection, the usual wildcards and add/subtract/intersect with 1...N stored selections are offered.
30. ↑ ACL is dependent on the type and version of file- and operating system. Altap Salamander offers quick access to owner, auditing and permission settings in WinXP with NTFS 5.
31. ↑ Only actions operating on filesystem data (filename, path, timestamps, acls, etc.); file contents have separate and independent per-file undo/redo. Filesystem actions that modify file contents (deleting, overwriting, truncating, &c.) can be undone/redone with optional integrated use of automatic trash/backup/auto-save/version-control features.
32. ↑ With plug-ins, or this can be implemented as a macros
33. ↑ Konqueror can undo, not redo.
34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 Needs KRename, an application that integrates into Konqueror and Krusader.
35. ↑ Create new file with desired name, then paste contents.
36. ↑ Only text which is dragged from another program and dropped into a folder in GNOME Files (Nautilus) can be pasted as a new file.
37. ↑ Removed in version 3.29.
38. ↑ Path Finder apparently integrates with Knox , an encryption utility.
39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 The encryption feature in Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional, and Windows Server 2003 is in fact a user-transparent filesystem-level encryption feature for NTFS. The file manager merely enables or disables it.
40. ↑ Supported up to Windows XP only. Document scraps are not supported in Windows Vista and later.
41. ↑ Via system File Properties dialog, NTFS-only. Must be enabled manually in Windows versions prior to Server 2003.
42. ↑ Via system File Properties dialog, NTFS-only.
43. ↑ Encryption is supported for Zip and Rar, other formats depend on the editable ARCHIVER.BB2 file
44. ↑ "Dual-pane file manager for Mac - Commander One". http://mac.eltima.com/file-manager.html.
45. ↑ via image-mode, GUI only
46. ↑ "Shell Commands in Dired". https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Shell-Commands-in-Dired.html.
47. ↑ Press and release Alt
48. ↑ Via plugins, or manual with helping of the embedded Advanced Compare.
49. ↑ Extensible via compression plugins, supported formats list depends on distribution package maintainer
50. ↑ Can be done in two steps
51. ↑ "Two-pane file manager for Windows with symlink and large file support". stackexchange.com. http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/17628/two-pane-file-manager-for-windows-with-symlink-and-large-file-support.
52. ↑ "Flogisoft - Nautilus Terminal". http://projects.flogisoft.com/nautilus-terminal/.
53. ↑ "Launchpad - Nautilus Terminal". 7 September 2010. https://launchpad.net/nautilus-terminal.
54. ↑ "Path Finder 7 by Cocoatech". http://www.cocoatech.com/pathfinder/.
55. ↑ "LXDE.org Forum - Try PCManFM with a tabbed terminal included". http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?t=487&f=22.
56. ↑ "Two-pane file manager for Windows with symlink and large file support". stackexchange.com. http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/17628/two-pane-file-manager-for-windows-with-symlink-and-large-file-support#comment29304_17628.
57. ↑ Copying directory junctions across drives creates an empty directory in the target
58. ↑ "Xfile: The Standard Setter - Features". http://rixstep.com/4/0/xfile/features.shtml.
59. ↑ "xplorer² tour#6: external command console". http://zabkat.com/tour5.htm.
60. ↑ via XYplorer script- SlideShow
61. ↑ "XYplorer - 9.90 Released". http://www.xyplorer.com/release_9.90.php#customCLI.
62. ↑ Part of Emacs.
63. ↑ "Krusader - Twin panel file management for your desktop". krusader.org. http://www.krusader.org/text.php?t=krusader-2.0.0-beta1.changelog.
64. ↑ IFilters

## External links

* What's the best file manager for Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 Trusty? by Rich Lott, May 2014
* Softpanorama Orthodox File Managers page (Home of the OFM standard)
* Comparison of some "light" File Managers in GNU/Linux (in spanish)

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File managers (comparison)

Unix-like|

* emelFM2
* Dolphin
* gentoo
* GNOME Commander
* GNOME Files
* Konqueror
* Krusader
* Nemo
* nnn
* PCManFM
* ranger
* SpaceFM
* Thunar
* Xfe

DOS|

* DOS Navigator
* DOS Shell
* Norton Commander
* PathMinder
* PC Shell
* ViewMAX
* Volkov Commander
* XTree

OS/2 etc.|

* DOS Navigator
* Norton Commander

Windows|

| Official|

* File Manager
* File Explorer / Windows Explorer

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Unofficial|

* Altap Salamander
* Directory Opus
* DOS Navigator
* Explorer++
* Far Manager
* Norton Commander
* PowerDesk
* STDU Explorer
* Total Commander
* WinSCP
* xplorer²
* XTree
* XYplorer
* ZTreeWin

Macintosh OSs|

| Classic Mac OS|

* Finder

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macOS|

* Commander One
* CRAX Commander
* Finder
* ForkLift
* Path Finder
* Xfile

BeOS etc.|

* OpenTracker
* Tracker

Cross-platform|

* Dired
* Double Commander
* File Commander
* fman
* Graphics Environment Manager
* Midnight Commander
* MuCommander

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Computer files

Types|

* Binary file / text file
* File format
* List of file formats
* File signatures
* Magic number
* Metafile
* Sidecar file
* Sparse file
* Swap file
* System file
* Temporary file
* Zero-byte file

Properties|

* Filename
* 8.3 filename
* Long filename
* Filename mangling
* Filename extension
* List of filename extensions
* File attribute
* Extended file attributes
* File size
* Hidden file / Hidden directory

Organisation|

* Directory/folder
* NTFS junction point
* Temporary folder
* Directory structure
* File sequence
* File system
* Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
* Path

Operations|

* Open
* Close
* Read
* Write

Linking|

* Alias
* File descriptor
* Hard link
* Shadow
* Shortcut
* Symbolic link

Management|

* File comparison
* File compression
* File manager
* Comparison of file managers
* File system permissions
* File transfer
* File sharing
* File verification

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