Q-Dir 4.19

Rated 50/50 by gezley at Feb 24, 2009

very nice file manager - can't believe it hasn't been reviewed yet. Would like to see some easy access buttons in dual-pane mode for quick file copying, directory synchronization, and so on, but otherwise good work

Rated 50/50 by poisonu at Jun 23, 2009

Current version is 3.84 It's FREE, & it does Not need installation. Great to run from usb memory sticks...

Rated 50/50 by pjb at Mar 22, 2010

Absolutely an amazing application. I have been using it for a month now, and have not looked back. The developer answers emails promptly and fixed a small issue that I came across. I now use this more than explorer. :)

Rated 50/50 by anomoly at Mar 22, 2010

Perfect. I was getting tiired of tc's dual file view. I needed 3 way too many times. Question is why wasn't this done before? Doesn't even nag about the internet or anything. Doesn't need a search function it uses F3 (windows search) and it starts in the pane you F3'd from. Doesn't need a toolbar either. It has tabs and a quick menu for favs.

Rated 50/50 by bobad at Mar 23, 2010

Pretty good file explorer. Needs a search function, needs a tool bar to drop favorite folders on, needs better options for function and icons. The icons on the top and status bar are way too small on my laptop. Has a serious bug in iIndows 7: You can not select multiple files. You must select and delete files 1 at a time, a real slow process. I hope they fix it. Still rates 4 stars, even with the bug. EDIT: ver 4.14 is out, and it corrected the multiple select problem in Win7. Upgraded to 5 stars! Thanks Nenad!

Rated 30/50 by bobad at Mar 23, 2010

Pretty good file explorer. Needs a search function, needs a tool bar to drop favorite folders on, needs better options for function and icons. The icons on the top and status bar are way too small on my laptop. Has a serious bugs in Win7 X64: *You can not select multiple files. You must select and delete files 1 at a time, a real slow process. *Downloaded files are very slow to appear, whereas they appear instantly in Win7 Explorer. It's a nice program, I hope the bugs get fixed.

Rated 30/50 by Artem S. Tashkinov at May 4, 2010

What a mess, have you, guys, ever heard of Total Commander, let alone Far Manager? They are thousands times more convenient.

Rated 30/50 by bobad at May 24, 2010

A little crash crept into this release. It's a pretty graceful crash; it just errors and closes. No Task Manager or re-boot needed to re-launch it. Since it's not a beta, it gets a point off for that. Other than that, the icons at top and in the status bar are so tiny and low res, they are not handy to use. Point off for that too. I should give a point off for the silly magnifier that attempts to "fix" the above, but I won't. Still problems with files appearing very slowly after copy or download. Other than that, it's a great program with great potential.

Rated 50/50 by anomoly at Jun 7, 2010

I like free commander's file handling a bit better but switched back to this after the v 4.21 update. I have 3 drives installed and one external I leave off til I use it. I like the ability in using a 4 pain manager. With the last version it still has trouble handling copy and move. I have resorted to closing and reopening it on occasion because of this. In any case it does work well with teracopy which is all I need. I have disabled every option practically in this latest version. Will see how it behaves. I give it the software OK I was using TC before this but you would have to have 2 copies open at all times which just wouldn't work for me.

Rated 50/50 by anomoly at Aug 13, 2010

I switched back to freecomm for a minute only because you can change and enlarge the font. This program needs that desperately. Everything else seems fine.

Rated 40/50 by bobad at Aug 13, 2010

It's up to 4.32 now, and much better behaved. I don't use all the windows configurations, don't see any benefit to it. I use the tree on the left and files on the right, just like Windows Explorer. The Win7 explorer is a train wreck. It's buggy and jumpy, and there is no way to change the bright white colors. That's the main reason I use Q-Dir, changing color to a soothing light blue. I wish the file header size and position could be saved. I can never see the file size without right-clicking and selecting "size all columns to fit". But I think this is inherited from the Win Explorer. What a mess. The biggest problem just now is the failure to refresh. When you move folders on the left, they do not show until you press F5 (forced refresh). That's pretty aggravating, and makes me want to go back to Win Explorer or something else. 1 star off for that.