XYPlorer is a versatile file manager and explorer designed as an alternative to the standard one included with Windows. The program is packed with plenty of functions that automate and simplify many common tasks you usually perform with your files and folders. Those functions include quick and advanced file searching, file filtering, path tracing and scripting, among more traditional ones.
Considering the quantity of features this program offers, its user interface is rather modest and simple. It includes a functional toolbar that offers you instant access to the most common tasks like copying, cutting, pasting and deleting files and folders, creating new folders, showing/hiding their total size, configuring your file filters and enabling/disabling them, and enabling/disabling the file search panel, just to mention some. The program's main section, on the other hand, supports tabbed navigation which allows you to browse multiple locations at the same time. Of course, this is a really helpful feature when it comes to copying or moving files from one folder to another. Anyway, if for whatever reason this is not enough for you, you can also enable the dual-panel navigation which allows you to display two locations simultaneously in the same window, making the mentioned tasks even easier.
Besides those features, XYPlorer also includes the so-called Info panel, which can be easily toggled on or off, and displays very detailed information about any file or folder you select including its attributes, version, metadata, tags, a raw view and a preview when the file type supports it (e.g. image files). As a part of this panel is also "Find Files", a sub-panel that provides the advanced-search functionality you can use to locate files based on their names and location, size, dates, attributes and even their contents. You can even use this feature to locate duplicate files based on multiple attributes, including their contents too. Finally, XYPlorer is also capable of remembering your lately visited locations and provides both a fixed and a floating panels for previewing your image files, among other helpful features.
All in all, XYPlorer is an advanced tool that easily surpasses Windows Explorer in many aspects, however, learning and getting used to all its functions is a task that may take its time. Anyway, given that you can test the program for an entire month free of cost, I would highly recommend any interested person downloading and trying it, as surely he/she won't get disappointed.
v20.5 [Oct 10, 2019]
- Content Search and Preview. Now both 64-bit and 32-bit IFilters are supported. This broadens the support for previewing and searching the textual contents of complex document formats (e.g. Office files). IFilters are needed to extract the raw text from complex documents like DOCX or PDF. The raw text again is needed for textual content search or preview. If you know what an IFilter is you know what a problem is. Usually the one you need is missing. The bitness has to match. 32-bit apps need 32-bit IFilters, 64-bit apps need 64-bit IFilters. But rarely does a program install both versions, although this is the official recommendation by Microsoft. Even Microsoft Office itself installs only the 64-bit flavor on 64-bit Windows, even if Office itself is 32-bit! XYplorer now lets you choose which IFilters to use, 32-bit or 64-bit. Tick or untick Configuration | Other | Shell Integration | 64-bit Windows | Use 64-bit IFilters.
- Quick Refresh List. The white space context menu of the file list now features the command "Refresh List". A little gesture towards heavy mouse users.
- Color Filters. Now you can optionally have Color Filters fill the whole column. Makes them more visible, especially with short-named files. Tick or untick this option: Configuration | Colors and Styles | Color Filters | Draw background colors as wide as the column.
- Previewed Audio Formats. Added DSD and DSF files (Sony’s DSD Stream File) to the previewed audio files. Note that this format is ID3V2 compliant and thus XYplorer will show the tags in the Preview Panel and in the various ID3-Tag columns. Needs a matching CODEC installed, of course.
- Mouse Down Blow Up. The new "Fit width only" option is perfect for quickly previewing vertical images in best resolution for vertical-only panning. Vertically large images, e.g. screenshots of websites, will just come out unreadably small when previewed with the normal Shrink to fit. The new Fit width only option handles this situation perfectly.
- Mouse Down Blow Up by Middle Button. Now the middle mouse button can be used for Mouse Down Blow Up on thumbnails and icons. Frees left and right button to perform their traditional tasks.
- Compilation Soundtrack. Compiled to the music of Sanford Clark.
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