Questions tagged [file-management]
Software to manage files stored on device(s), network(s), and/or in the cloud.
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File-system browser for JavaFX
I am looking for an implementation of a control in modern JavaFX (OpenJFX) version 14 or later to display the contents of a folder from the file system of the host computer.
I have learned how to ...
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Online product/photos management software with tagging
Long story short, I have spent some time looking for a management/cataloging software but it feels like I'm looking at wrong categories. I had a look at different PIM (Product Information Management) ...
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File Comparison Tool (Checksum based, Windows 2016/10)
So I am looking for a tool that can compare files in folders based on checksums (this is common, not hard to find); however, my use-case is that the files can exist in pretty deep folder paths that ...
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Manage metadata for arbitrary files
I have a bunch of files sorted into folders on a Windows share, and I would like to attach some metadata to them. The files are mostly datasheets (.PDF) and tools (.ZIP, .EXE). I would like to be able ...
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Gratis Windows 10 file explorer with no link to Edge
Problem: Microsoft has made it utterly impossible to keep using "File Explorer" (the file manager built into Windows) by adding an
unremovable button in the top-right corner, precisely underneath the ...
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Gratis Windows File Rename utility
DropBox has messed me up :-(
Suddenly, a lot of my file.extension files have been renamed as file (Mawg's Laptop's conflicted copy 2020-01-15).extension and replaced by older versions (?!).
I need a ...
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How can I edit/share the same text file from my Linux laptop (code editor or command line) and my iPhone?
The only way to edit the same file on iPhone and (Linux) laptop that I can find is Google Drive. However, on laptop Google docs don't have code syntax colouring / highlighting. Also with Google docs ...
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Distributed file system over network
I'm looking for a system that will be cross platform allowing me to utilize excess disk space on commodity hardware to create a single large disk.
For example, if I have 400 GB available across 10 ...
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Music management Software
I need a Software for Windows 10 to organize my audio files.
I want a Software that I can assign keywords or tags to the audio file and later to search the files based on these tags or keywords. It is ...
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Looking for a simple system to showcase user-contributed artwork
I am looking for a simple open-source online cms that allows users to upload and download files, in the spirit of Dribbble or Behance.
The use case is for collecting (and exhibiting) local artwork (...
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Program for automatically moving files to various folders
Is there a (Windows) program where I can e.g. drag and drop many files, or which processes all files in a folder, in such a way that based on some rules they end up in a specific folder.
E.g. all PDF ...
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Percentage of code per language, per directory, Github-style
I am often inspecting heterogeneous code bases, and would like to, at a quick glance, know the percentage of files per language, just like Github shows for a repository:
However, in Github's case, ...
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Ubuntu File Manager, replacement for Nautilus
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and searching for a good file manager to replace Nautilus, based on the following criteria:
Overall performance
Copying many small files needs to be fast
Searching files ...
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Looking for a way to search for multiple files at once in linux
I am looking for a solution that will let me search for/bring up multiple files at once in a file manager/browser on Linux, preferably either Nautilus or Nemo.
I am running Linux mint 19.2 and have a ...
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Linux file manager with side-by-side preview (not thumbnails)
On Windows, the "File Explorer" (explorer.exe) has a handy preview feature beyond thumbnails: It can show files and contents side by side in the same window. Is there any Linux file manager that ...
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Program that can display real types of files in a directory
I am looking for a program that can show the actual types of files in a directory. The program would have to analyze the headers/contents of the files in the directory in order to determine their ...
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Rename the files with date appended in MacOs
I want to append the date in the file name. I have seen many batch file script. Is there any software available for that?
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Tool to manage windows Programs using tags and images
Basically I am looking for something like steam, but for any program I decide to drop into it.
Requirements:
1) Needs to support exe and bat files (bare minimum).
2) Show list of program "icons"
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NAS / Firewall, odd hardware config const. of Lenovo TD350 and HPE Microserver G10
I am at odd here with my storage and backup solution. Currently I have two systems; an Lenovo TD350 with 4 / 2TB HDDs (RAID 10 2STRIPES)(2 NICS) and an HPE Microserver Gen 10 (2 NICS) with 4 / 2TB ...
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How to find invisible srt file?
Just downloaded a movie and when I went to watch movie (foreign language) i turned on the subtitles however noticed there was no .srt subtitle file or any other file back in the folder in which the ...
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Any Android File manager which meets these requirements?
I am currently looking for an Android File Manager which has following features:
Storage analysis (Duplicate file remover, large file indicator etc.)
Multimedia support (e.g. built-in image viewer, ...
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Quickly view a large number of html files in a directory
I have more than 1000 html files in a directory which I want to view. Is there a way to do this like Opening a Navigation Bar to the side (like in many text editors) where I can just keep pressing ...
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FTP Browser (with content viewer) Android App
I have readyshare on my netgear router, and need an android app to view the files on readyshare.
I know about some file explorers (ES Explorer, etc) and they are not free apps for the FTP access. I'm ...
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Software to massively change file names?
I'm looking for a software which allows me to massively change file names contained in a folder with several subfolders, giving them a pattern (for example, change all of them to consecutive numbers) ...
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Is there a program that can batch rename/replace file names?
I have a whole list of files that I need to update, however the new files all have _judge after them. I've tried using some program called Renamer but every time I remove the _judge in that program it ...
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Tools for sharing apk and ipa files in a company
I am looking for (free or not) tools for sharing mobile apps (i.e. runnable programs for Android and iOS) produced by my company so that any authorized stakeholders can access these files and search ...
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The most efficient way to backup changes for directory with lots of small files
What is the most efficient way to backup for this situation:
900 thousand files, 30 GB total, most of the files are extremely small - few KB.
Sometimes some files change transactionally, most of the ...
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Open source photo tag editing/searching that can save the photo tags directly into the files?
I've been on the lookout for an app filling these requirements for quite a while, so I figure I will just write my list all in one place.
Hard requirements:
Open source and actively developed
Allows ...
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Organization Website/s on where to put code - recommendations
I am looking for a more structured (free) way to organize code notes and snippets so they're easy to keep track of. Google docs isn't cutting it! Any recommendations?
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Android file explorer to view files from a virtual server
I am looking for an Android app, or an option I might have overlooked which allows me to browse the files on my server. I think the usage boils down to something along the lines of: I fill in LDAP ...
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Program to read shortcut (.lnk) files and modify its properties
I would like a GUI program capable to open/read a shortcut file and modify all of its properties, with total ease (like for example showing the original values in a editable textbox, and a button to ...
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Document manager
I'm looking for a powerful document manager application. Example applications are: Macjournal or DevonThink but they're available for Mac OS only.
I've a Linux Elementary Juno installed.
The features ...
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Software to sort large number of RECOVERED FILES into folders one by one
I am looking for software - to sort files one by one
on WINDOWS
my hard was formatted by accident
so when i did recovery - all i got is image001 , image002 ... and so on
it is very hard to open ...
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Dock-style app to replace DragThing
This is, essentially, a Dock replacer on steroids - dating back to before the Dock even existed.
I've been using DragThing since v1.0 in the mid 1990's so it's fair to say I'm rather used to it & ...
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Best file shredding/Recovery
Trying to make some files I had in a VM unrecoverable, I ran CCleaner in the VM and deleted everything I can from the inside, deleted the VM. And then I found out OneDrive had them, deleted it from ...
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Software to make tree output humanly readable/browsable?
For backup purposes I run such tree commands:
tree /f /a > tree.txt
tree /a > treewof.txt
It looks like this in the textfile (this is treewof, without file names, just folder names).
| +---...
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Tool for organizing my movies on Windows
Any tool for organizing my movies (mkv, mp4, srt files)
I have lot of downloaded movies on hard drive. Are there any tools (software) for arranging them clearly and in a user friendly way on my ...
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What application for storing data based on metadata, and retrieve it via metadata search?
In our institution we have a large database of observational data consisting in precipitation, temperature, elevation and a large number of other variables, coming from different projects and in ...
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Image tagging software that can sort the tagged images into folders
I need (preferably gratis) software (for Windows or Linux) to manually tag and sort images, and arrange the images into folders and subfolders.
When it's all said and done, the file structure should ...
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Sort tall images into one folder, wide into another
I have a large image collection on my full windows 10 tablet.
I start with hundreds of images
Some of them are taller than wide -> I want them to go in one folder
Some of them are wilder than tall -> ...
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File manager for Linux that organizes files on a mind map structure?
I'm looking for a file manager that allows me to visualize the local files from my computer on a mind map structure. The idea of the map would be something like this:
This GIF is from a beta ...
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Catalog and tag files from offline sources and show them as a drive
I have 2 or 3 sources where I store my files. My laptop, a flash disk, a portable drive or a network NAS.
What I would like to do, is:
to catalog all of them and create a virtual file system and see ...
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Project Management Tools Capable of Assisting with Local File Management
Required Features (in order of importance)
1) Looking for project management applications that are capable of linking to files stored on a local server. Users would be able to view a project on a ...
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Duplicate folder finder
Anyone know a free duplicate finder app for Windows that will find duplicate folders? I want to be able to select a drive and it will return all folders on this drive that are duplicates based on the ...
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File system cleaner and registry cleaner for Windows 7
Please recommend software to replace CCleaner for Windows 7.
Here is the only functionality from CCleaner required (it's fine if your recommendations do more):
File system cleaner
Remove temporary ...
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Software to lock files when open to prevent edit conflicts
I'm looking for a third party Windows tool that can automatically create a lock file when it is opened by someone.
I am experimenting with files such as plain text, AutoCAD and Photoshop stored on ...
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What is the alternative of shared drive?
There is a MS windows server, where files are kept and accessed in shared drive manner. Type of the files includes MS Word (.doc,.docx), MS excel(.xls, .xlsx), images (.jpeg), text files(.txt) and PDF....
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Graphical file manager with VIM keybindings
To sort fotos quickly I like to drag 'n' drop them in a graphical file manager (currently Thunar) with previews.
I'd like to have a file manager with previews/thumbnails and a vim-like interface. Vim-...
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A file browser for Windows that lets you rate files?
Is there a file browser for Windows that lets you rate files, ideally directly inline, by hovering over the rating?
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Recommendations for project files/document storage tools (not source code and no videos)
I am looking at various options for project file/document management tools (not source code and no videos). My requirements being:
Upload/download documents in the folder structure
Share Documents
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