Your favourite Amiga filemanager/directory tool

[mr_a500]

I haven't used anything other than Filemaster 2.2 since I don't know when. It has a bug if a filename is too long and it will crash on listing a directory if it comes across one, but I've only ever had that problem with TOSEC naming conventions that have stupidly long names.

Yes, I hate those stupidly long TOSEC names. It's especially annyoying when there are multiple files in an archive and the first 32 characters of all the files are the same. Using FFS with 32 char limit, you have to extract 1, move or rename, extract 2, more or rename, and so on..

Using SFS with more than 32 character filenames avoids this, but usually causes problems with filemanagers designed before alternate filesystems were available. Naturally, older filemanagers don't expect long filenames. ABCdir will display the first 35 char or so, then garbage after. It won't crash, but you can't copy, delete or rename (have to do it with ABCdir shell). I now download or extract to FFS partition to crop the stupidly long filenames. This is probably the main reason I wanted an updated ABCdir. (but after recent severe SFS problems, I've switched back to FFS anyway)

[pintcat]

I prefer DiskMaster, because it's small and simple, but yet highly customizable through an easy to learn script syntax. Sadly, it appears a little bit unfinished to me due to some obvious bugs here and there and the development stagnated many years ago.

[nlandas]

Originally Posted by Slayer

ya all mad as maggots...

the only utility worth using was and still is SID2...

file managers should be fast and snappy not bloated and suggesting a kitchen sink is what you need...

I thought I was the only one that loved SID2. It was so simple to use and very fast. DirOpus is nice but no SID2 was so streamlined and fast.

[Gorf]

SID2 is awesome! Simply the best.
(hacked my version to work with custom screen modes..)

Sadly the author, Timm Martin, died way too young back in the 90s :-/

[McTrinsic]

I love DosControl. It’s been released as freeware. Awesome piece of art.

On a system with MUI I love to use RO. It feels like a modern file browser and looks great. Definitely enhances the look and _feel_ of OS 3.1(x).

[klx300r]

DOpus on my miggies and PC always

[Pyromania]

I’ve always been a fan of Dopus, version 4 though not the latest. I also loved Diskmaster.

[Tomislav]

DOpus 4 and DiskMaster. DM because it is smaller. What to tell about DOpus what is not told. On Windows I use MultiCommander which little looks like DOpus 4 (have many configurable buttons at bottom). DOpus 4.12 (not JR that is on aminet) works on OS 1.3.

[Daedalus]

I loved DOpus 5 when I was using it on Workbench 3.1 in Workbench replacement mode, but since OS 3.5 I haven't really used it much, the enhanced Workbench v44+ does enough for me.

[Seiya]

i use both dopus and dirwork. i think that on Amiga side DirWorks is very good because is very fast in the action you must to do, especially in typically file manager operation: copy. i vote DirWork, but i'd like to vote for both

[stevelord]

DOpus 4 for me, it's just really nice. I find Magellan takes over too much of my machine. I have been meaning to get into Diskmaster on my KS1.3 emulator setup. If I ever get round to setting up an A500 again I'll definitely build out a HD setup with Diskmaster.

[Weaselrama]

DOPUS 4 forever. Admittedly, I've never adopted another file manager (although back in the early days I used SID and DM on WB1.3) only because I know how to configure commands in DOPUS. I keep a few others (Filer, DM2, and RO) for demonstrative purposes.

Here's DOPUS 4 pre 22 (whose "about" says it's pre 21) featuring anti-aliased TT fonts via AfA and the color scheme featured pretty universally on my WB (OS 3.9) in MUI, etc.