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Mustafa Demirhan wrote:
(of course if you did not pay thousands of $$$ for the enterprise edition of JBuilder
Well My boss did 
It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
What do you want to patch today?
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Moving to a new PC the first thing to install is proper file manager[^] because Windows Explorer just doesn't cut it for the developer needs.
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George wrote:
because Windows Explorer just doesn't cut it for the developer needs.
In what way?
I've never really had a problem with it, but perhaps my DOS background has influenced the way I work.
Michael
Life’s not a song.
Life isn’t bliss.
Life is just this.
It’s living. -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once more, with feeling
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Michael P Butler wrote:
In what way?
I've never really had a problem with it, but perhaps my DOS background has influenced the way I work.
The list would be a long one actually, but let me just present few simple issues:
1. Try to create folder or file starting with a dot using explorer. like .cvsignore for example.
2. Try to see the contents of your "...\WINNT\Downloaded Program Files" folder. Now compare what you see with the real contents using the command line. Chances are that you have a lot of files that Explorer doesn't show.
3. Try to move some folder in which one of the files is held locked by some application (like VC++ project that is open in the IDE and thus holding the .ncb file). While moving it will report error and leave you with the half-moved folder instead of reporting it locked and give you the change to unlock the file or something.
Anyhow, I am not saying that there are problems with Explorer, it's simply that development often requires to have more control other files than the average user.
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George wrote:
3. Try to move some folder in which one of the files is held locked by some application (like VC++ project that is open in the IDE and thus holding the .ncb file). While moving it will report error and leave you with the half-moved folder instead of reporting it locked and give you the change to unlock the file or something.
 I HATE THAT (especially when you are replacing the destination folder, then you have to check the dates to see which ones got moved...)
- Nitron
"Those that say a task is impossible shouldn't interrupt the ones who are doing it." - Chinese Proverb
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I think this is a basic by-design issue, I read somewhere that MS has plans to support a finer level of control over how things happen, something like an ignore error option while moving files. This will happen in the next major upgrade of OS.
Cheers
Kannan
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Windows Commander - now Total Commander - is _really_ cool!!
The explorer is the app I hate most - it destroys every day time of many user juggling around until they have navigated to the right directory - copying, moving and other operations between source and destination directories are user unfriendly and _just_ bad  .
Beneath the already mentioned features I find useful
- 2 key or 2 mouse click navigation to predefined directories
- colorized filenames by filetyp!! I discovered today
- multi-rename tool!! very flexible
- file packing for multiple formats is a breeze
- plugin extensibilty and currently masses of plugins for cool usages
- flexible user definable button bar
Yesterday in our company someone tried to copy 60GB with explorer ... a bad bug occured ... after progress reaches the end copying began again and loops ... and loops   explorer timebandit greets you!
Copying with Total Commander ... no problems .. as expected
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Sorry but I hate that app.
I came across a lot of junior developers who thought it was the bees knees and yet it took them just as long to do what they wned with that app than I did with Explorer.
If a file is locked - its locked for a reason and not some MS whim.
Stupidity dies.
The end of future offspring.
Evolution wins.
- A Darwin Awards Haiku
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Right, can't imagine myself working with Explorer
Philip Patrick
Web-site: www.stpworks.com
"Two beer or not two beer?" Shakesbeer
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NOOOOOO, Windows Explorer is the best program ever 
I really mean it. It is very simple to use. I tried Windows Commander some time ago and it is too complicated or too much for daily use. All i do is delete some files, move them, cut them and paste them. What else do I need? Well, for packaging: I have Winzip.
for FTP: I have FTPVoyager
for Renaming (need it occasionally): I have a great free renamer - RenameIt.
I never felt like I should integrate all of these into one utility. In fact, I am against that
All I am trying to say is that Windows Explorer is very fast and with these other programs, I can do all I want much faster than that Windows Commander thing 
PS: Locked files - AGGGHHHH. Damnit. I also hate that. Especially in WinXP. In XP, it tries to do it for 4-5 seconds even if the file is locked. Thus it freezes explorer for 4-5 secs!!!
Mustafa Demirhan
http://www.macroangel.com
Sonork ID 100.9935:zoltrix
<nobr>They say I'm lazy but it takes all my time
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