WARNING! If somebody found any spelling mistake, he can keep it :-)
I am not the best in English!!!
THIS HELP FILE IS NOT DONE YET. THERE IS NO GUARANTY THAT EVERY EXPLANATION IS CORRECT.
THE INFORMATION USED FOR THIS HELP REPRESENT THE STATUS OF v. 5.0.5.118 beta 1.
Introduction
FileCommander 5 is a freeware file explorer.
The first big difference to most other explorers are the four independent operating
windows. Your first impression might be: "Four windows, who cares ...". But after using
FileCommander for some time, you will say: "I can not work with two-windowed explorers any more."
If you had used FileCommander 4 before, it will not take much time to continue with this version. If not, this help file
hopefully can help you working with FileCommander.
I know that there are a lot of file managers at the market, some of them are freeware, some of them are shareware.
So why another file manager? I can't give you a real answer.
The first versions of FileCommander were not designed to run on different systems (even the first versions of FileCommander 4).
At the beginning, I have created this tool for myself and for my needs. It was not designed to run on other system.
FileCommander 5 is a big change for me. Lot's of people use FileCommander 4 and lots of people have sent me email gratulating me
(I want to thank you all out there for sending me such positive feedback). It is good to know that other people like my work.
But after some time, I was not proud anymore on my FileCommander. Lots of features do not work correctly and I did not really like
to work with my FileCommander 4 anymore. So I decided to make a new one. But not only for me, for everybody.
This is the result.
I think, FileCommander 5 is much better than FileCommander 4, although it does not have every feature of FC 4 yet.
But this change, that FileCommander is now really for everybody, is not only positive. I have rented web-space at a webhoster to
present FileCommander 5 better. No more annoying commercial popups anymore, that's very good. A forum for every body, that's very good, too.
But as FileCommander is freeware, I do not get the hosting money back. I will create a paypal account soon, so if you want to send me a donation,
please be patient. I will announce the paypal address at my website as soon as I have created it. If you want to help me in
another way, you can get moderator in my forum.
Ok, enough asking your for helping me ... here is a short feature list of FileCommander 5:
- four operating windows for fast browsing
- big file preview to have a quick view in almost every kind of file
- ZIP and RAR files are handled as folders, ZIP files are supported without the need of any external dll
- no installation required, you can run FileCommander from USB-drives, hard disc drives, CD-ROMs, ...
- internal tool list to have quick-access to every important software on your system
- internal script engine: create your own script and individualize FileCommander for your needs
- internal, self-written file copy engine for fast file operations.
- fast file search for searching for any kind of file
- four operating windows for fast browsing
- lots of small file utilities (e.g. file splitting)
- internal file context menu for quick-access to every important FileCommander - feature
- internal clipboard: the windows clipboard will not be overwritten by selecting and copying files to the clipboard
- file highlighting to separate different file types optically
- every file access is threaded, you can continue working while FileCommander processes the executed operations
(I hate explorers, which hang up only because my CD-drive is spinning up)
- Multi-language support (which finally works perfect)
Now I have some words to say: Sorry for any spelling mistake, any bug or so. It is really hard for one person to develop a program
while translating it while managing the web page while creating a help file while having friends (the last point is the most important for me)
About FileCommander
My first small Delphi project was FileCommander 1. At that time, I had started
coding two month ago.
Time after time, I increased the main version of FileCommander. Version 4 was the
first version hitting the net. This development was not easy to handle: FileCommander
had to work on different machines, different configurations and different users.
The first big change was the language support. This was very difficult, because I had not
designed FileCommander to support multiple languages. This aspect is still visible in the
latest version of FC 4.
After one year, I decided to recreate FileCommander. FileCommander 5 is the result of this
big change. Every entry, every caption, every error message can be translated now. But this
is only one change.
I think, the graphical presentation is very important. Boring gray menus do not make it easier to
work with any program. Too much graphics are not good for serious work
(for that reason, I still work with Win2000). So I had to find the perfect
balance between colored and serious.
Dave
Support
If you like FileCommander, please do not hesitate and write an
email to godliketools@gmx.de or write
a comment in my forum at www.godlikesoft.de/forum.
This is the only way for me to get your opinion.
If you have any questions or found any bug, please write it in my forum. Lots of emails
have almost the same content (e.g. language bugs in FileCommander 4).
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