Gnits
Matt O’Brien
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- Mar 21, 2015
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- Dublin, Ireland.
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I have checked out Total Commander and am very impressed with its full feature set.
I agree, if I was starting from scratch it would be a leading contender. But as you infer, I have built up a collection of utilities over the years that are now engrained in my DNA. Still… I will note that it exists.
For anyone reading this… my top favourite tools /utilities are probably ….
Directory Opus… such a powerful alternative to Windows Explorer… and I still find little gems of useful features..
TreeSize. A genius app for analysis of what is taking up space on your drives.
Beyond Compare. Synch/ Copy / Analyse differences between folders or drives. Works on Mac and Windows.
Macrium Reflect. Backup software.
I have started to use Python (plus Pandas) when I need to analyse stuff which requires either a little logic, iterative processing or complex rules. If results are large it is a single command to save as Excel tabbed file, especially if I need to share or preserve the results. I used this recently to do a 3 way comparison of all office documents comparing the system drive of a recovered / crashed drive with the crashed drive loaded as the D drive (was not sure when it would finally fail) and a backup copy taken while troubleshooting the initial problem. The office docs were vip financial docs. It was worth the effort as happily 90% of the docs were recovered and unique documents were found in all 3 drives. This allowed a final full set of docs to be created and provided an audit trail of all documents on all drives for future reference.
I still use Windows Explorer for the simple basic tasks and I was pleased to see this product improved in Windows 11… but the delays in executing Windows Explorer task (eg creating a folder and waiting for it to appear, or deleting files and waiting to check if they are actually deleted or still waiting for the o/s to catchup)…. is totally unacceptable as a main stream operating system.
I agree, if I was starting from scratch it would be a leading contender. But as you infer, I have built up a collection of utilities over the years that are now engrained in my DNA. Still… I will note that it exists.
For anyone reading this… my top favourite tools /utilities are probably ….
Directory Opus… such a powerful alternative to Windows Explorer… and I still find little gems of useful features..
TreeSize. A genius app for analysis of what is taking up space on your drives.
Beyond Compare. Synch/ Copy / Analyse differences between folders or drives. Works on Mac and Windows.
Macrium Reflect. Backup software.
I have started to use Python (plus Pandas) when I need to analyse stuff which requires either a little logic, iterative processing or complex rules. If results are large it is a single command to save as Excel tabbed file, especially if I need to share or preserve the results. I used this recently to do a 3 way comparison of all office documents comparing the system drive of a recovered / crashed drive with the crashed drive loaded as the D drive (was not sure when it would finally fail) and a backup copy taken while troubleshooting the initial problem. The office docs were vip financial docs. It was worth the effort as happily 90% of the docs were recovered and unique documents were found in all 3 drives. This allowed a final full set of docs to be created and provided an audit trail of all documents on all drives for future reference.
I still use Windows Explorer for the simple basic tasks and I was pleased to see this product improved in Windows 11… but the delays in executing Windows Explorer task (eg creating a folder and waiting for it to appear, or deleting files and waiting to check if they are actually deleted or still waiting for the o/s to catchup)…. is totally unacceptable as a main stream operating system.
