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Alternatives to windows file explorer
Total Commander (or any similar, like Double Commander) offer an entirely different paradigm, with a lot more functionality. Best for more advanced users.
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Is there a free desktop PDF editor?
PDFSam Basic seems to meet your requirements
Free and open-source
Can rotate, cut, merge, save
It is available for Windows and Mac OS X.
PDFSam also have an enhanced paid version with more features....
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Program to read shortcut (.lnk) files and modify its properties
Instead of looking for perfection, I decided to develop by myself what I consider perfect for my needs.
Then finally I finished the initial release of Easy Link File Viewer, a simple, friendly, open-...
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An intelligent duplicate file finder for Linux
rmlint (http://rmlint.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)
Runs natively on Linux
Is able to find duplicates based on content
Manual selection and batch deletion of duplicates is possible (creates a batch ...
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Program to search by file name in Windows?
I recommend Everything search by voidtools. It is very lightweight, about 500KB.
Searches for any file on your PC instantly while you type.
Support for Regular Expressions.
Adds to context menu and ...
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Software to replace multiple text strings in multiple files
You can do this with Notepad++ without opening your files:
Open Notepad++
Press Ctrl + H
Switch to the tab titled "Find in Files"
Specify your search text, and the replacement
Set the folder in ...
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Software to rename files based on their timestamps
I recommend Bulk Rename Utility. It is a freeware program, for Windows. It can rename files based on a variety of different criteria.
For renaming based on the date, look at the section for "Auto ...
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Free open-source on-premise file sharing server
Have a look at owncloud. It is open source and can install on premise.
According to your requirements:
Uploading big files
It can expose the drive via WebDAV
There ares some collaborative editing ...
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Alternative to Windows Explorer that allows easy navigation in identical folder structures
There are a couple of very nice "twin-commander" style file managers that will allow you to do just this -- and much more besides:
Double Commander
The main interface (pic from website) looks like ...
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Access OS X filesystem from Android over WiFI
There are several good file explorers available which offer network access. To have them accessing your Mac, you just need to setup shares. Here is a little howto which explains the Mac part1 for the ...
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Desktop organizer program
You could use Hygeia [Tip: Means health in Greek] and create some custom rules that will run on interval or whenever you want.
I did the same for my Downloads folder, were every night at 00:00, it ...
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App to find empty Windows folders
I found the simplest answer here - built in to Windows.
If you do want to delete all the empty folders only, go to Computer
and at the top right click on search. Click on kind and Select folder,
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Gratis Windows File Rename utility
Take a look at Bulk Rename Utility which seems to be able to do the job.
Free download (also portable version available): https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/
In Renaming Options > Advenced Options ...
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An intelligent duplicate file finder for Linux
fdupes should do what you want.
From Wikipedia:
fdupes is a program written by Adrian Lopez to scan directories for
duplicate files, with options to list, delete or replace the files
with ...
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Android file managers
Solid Explorer File Manager
It's an extremely capable file manager that supports root permissions, and allows file transfers over a variety of protocols.
FTP, SFTP, WebDav, SMB/CIFS clients
Cloud ...
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Android file managers
Ghost Commander
It is free and open source (GPLv3). It is available to download from Google Play or F-Droid.
It is inspired by Norton Commander/Total Commander/Midnight Commander, so uses a classic ...
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Program to search by file name in Windows?
I recommend FreeCommander for this task.
It meets all of your requirements:
It searches recursively
It has an option to only search the top-level directory
It can search by regular expressions (regex)...
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Create file of arbitrary size with random data in Windows
You can use Random Data file Creator (RDFC).
Random Data File Creator, briefly RDFC, is a console application for
Microsoft Windows, which can be used to create binary files of any
size filled ...
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Create file of arbitrary size with random data in Windows
You can use Dummy File Creator:
Free for educational and non-commerical personal use
Portable
Microsoft Windows (requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5)
GUI and CLI
option to generate file with ...
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Software to output the flattened directory tree in a particular format
From my understanding, given an input folder, you'd like to flatten
the folder tree/hierarchy and write the result to a text file with the
format you specified.
I've written a PowerShell script to ...
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Windows tool to split/join large files into 4gb chunks to get around FAT32 limitations
You can use 7-zip, WinRAR or WinZIP to create a non-compressed file.
This is very fast and universal solution, you can open a zip file on any platform later.
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Free File Explorer alternative with dark theme for Windows 7?
There are many explorer replacements for Windows. My personal favourite is Q-Dir. It does everything standard explorer does, and a few more features. Q-Dir is my favourite because it supports many ...
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App to find empty Windows folders
Install Python selecting the option to add it to your path
Open a command prompt
cd to your starting point
type: python
type in the following, (indenting is important):
import os
for (root, dirs, ...
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Software to rename files based on their timestamps
I would suggest using Microsoft PowerShell. Odds are that it is already installed on your system, so free if not just let the windows update it. Simple syntax for renaming bunch of text files with the ...
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Is there any file sync software that can sync all my servers/clients (no GUI)?
Can I suggest that a much better way of working would be to use a version control system such as mercurial (hg) or git and when you are happy with your changes on one computer simply commit and push ...
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More reliable alternative to Samba on Linux, speed is most important
There is another SMB3 server on Linux available which is high performance called MoSMB. Link http://www.mosmb.com.
This SMB3 server stack mainly addresses the performance and scalability. Its core ...
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Command line file explorer/manager that displays the folder size
What about nnn? The screenshot on the Github page already shows folder sizes, and the description tells: nnn is also a du analyzer.
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Android file managers
Total Commander
Anyone with a handle like Fonz might just be old enough to remember DOS and the days when there was only one file manager - Norton Commander.
There have been many clones (and forks) ...
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Program to search by file name in Windows?
My go to program for a Windows Explorer replacement is MultiCommander. It’s an explorer type replacement that has many features including the ability to restrict your search level, regular ...
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software to tell what you have downloaded recently
Technically, files downloaded from the Internet have an alternate data stream called Zone.Identifier.
You can use Windows built-in commands to locate such files. Windows will list such streams when ...
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