FreeCommander Forum

Hi,

I have been running TotalCommander for a while and really like it. I was about to purchase it when I discovered FreeCommander which seems to be doing a lot of what TotalCommander does. Has anyone here done a in depth comparison between the two? I have been going over features and find that FreeCommander seems to have everything TotalCommander has and more.

I am willing to pay for a good file manager. I have been a Linux user for a long time so coming to Winows Explorer doesn't work for me. But if FreeCommander does all I need, nothing is better than free!

//C

Queued copy (useful if copying stuff what takes a lot of time, but you don't want to copy parallel), PLUGINS (!!!),

unicode support looks bit different (FC if can't recognize correctly it shows the "classic" 8+3 fallback, TC shows what it recognizes)

search with regexp / hex - more of a nice to have.

But I found some strange behavior: if you want to change to a place with cd ... FC pops up a command in that directory instead of going there. Quite funny . It is a common task with not-mounted network drives (without letters) though. TC recognizes both \ and / as directory separators for this command. However this task can be done using the menu Folder / GoTo Folder... (it recognizes both \ and /, but does not strip quotation marks though. And if you go there with a / it can't go up in the tree - gives an access violation) This one is needed if you work in a mixed environment - people using windows and linux boxes, sending you paths in emails .

Big plus for FC: human readable filesize . Flat view is also extremely nice.

So far these are the big diffs I've found, must be way more. IMHO when the plugin-support will come it will kill TC on sight.