Free file in software for windows

i.File is a file manager for Linux written for the the Windows refugees that are arriving in Linux only to find that the state of the user interface is rather poor. I personally somewhat fall into this catagory, although more as a power user than the average Joe.
Both the leading file managers for KDE and Gnome are well... not to put too fine a point on it: crap. There are just not ready for everyday use by normal people, because of the untold number of bugs in the usability and function that are STILL there 3 years after they first infested Linux desktops.
Not that this project will start off any better, but my hope is that itll end far more successfully than the aforementioned software. Currently i.File is targetted at other developers in an attempt to get some help with bringing it up to speed. Enough of the basic code layout and implementation is done so that the user can see how things should work. And now its just time to fill in the blanks and bust those bugs.
Enhancements:
- Added a "Show Hidden" option on the toolbar. And the architecture was so well written it automatically puts all the newly visible folders into the tree view. And removes them when you switch it off. I seriously thought I would have to write code to make that work and the first time I tried it I sat that a bit aghast... "that... was... coooool!". No extra coding required. And obviously I then went into geek convulsions, repeatedly showing and hidding file in my home directory to "experience" the coolness of not having to write code over and over and over...
- Fixed browsing to the desktop in the folder view screwing up the folder tree with lots of duplicate "desktop" folders.
- Added a specific folder icon for hidden folders.
- Added support for resolving name conflicts when moving and copying files around. If the source and dest are the same when copying then it auto generates a new files name along the lines of "Copy of ...." and when the src and dest are different it puts up a conflict dialog to ask whether to replace, rename, skip or cancel. Its all still a little rough but its better than silently blatting the dest file eh!
- Added support to pass in an initial directory on the command line.
- Fixed ::OnBrowse to select the directory in the tree view, scroll to it if its off the page and list the files instead of leaving the file pane blank.
- Fixed the right click file menu to cache all the mimetype->application lookups so that it can populate the "Open with..." menu quickly after the first time. (The is an LGI fix).
- Added proper cancel functionality to the search feature. The controls disable while searching and then reenable when the search ends. In the mean time the search button turns to a cancel button. Any search results found before the cancel button is pressed are displayed anyway.
- Made the mount and umount commands display their output if they fail. Usually its a helpful error message.
- Made the umount command move off the drive in question to release the handle to it so that umount can actually work.
- Ive greatly simplified the handling of new nodes. When you create a file or directory by copying/moving or whatever that even has to be seen by all the views of that parent directory so that it can be added into the view. This used to be complicated system of passing events through node refs to their UI. And never seemed to work reliably, so I ditched that and made the application object the main collector of events. There is now a function called "OnNewNode" in the AppWnd that receives all new node events and passes them out to the various views in the system. Each view looks at the node and sees whether its relevant to its display and either discards the event or adds a new NodeRef into its display.
- Added drag and drop target support to the folder tree view.
- Fixed some things in the network neighbourhood / smb support. Firstly it now finds the master browser all by itself which means it even has a chance of working on a machine other than mine (*hide in shame*) and also Ive changed the process of looking up the network shares to use the rpc command instead of the smbclient which cant handle share names longer than 12 characters. The rpc command is limited to 127 characters. In the event that the rpc command doesnt work it tries the smbclient command as a fall back.
- Fixed some crashes and memory corruptions in the node and ref code when copying and moving files around. All hail valgrind!
- Ive batched the mime typing results together into blocks so that they dont generate a message per file. This takes the load off the message passing engine of the GUI which on non Win32 platforms is usually crap. Especially X11 which has absymal message passing throughput.
- Added support for viewing entry permissions, owner and group.
- Added support for changing an entries permissions.
- Added support for seeing the status of files under version control. Currently only subversion is supported but it would be trivial to add CVS support as well.
- Added CVS status support as well. Made the version control state lookup threaded to keep to the UI snappy. It look like this, the blue icons are unmodified files under version control, the red icons are modified files.
- Fixed the progress bar to work with greater than 2gb files during copy operations.
- Fixed the size of folders in the properties window. Also fixed it for 64 bit safeness for the GB sized folders.

Aa Windows Explorer context menu extension for joining multiple files into one file. The MPeg / File Joiner was designed to be a Windows Explorer context menu extension for joining multiple files into one file. File Joiner adds two options to the context menu in Windows Explorer if you select two or more files.
Both options will join the selected files and create a new file consisting of all the joined files. The first option will create the joined file in the currently selected directory, the second option allows you to specify the target directory for the joined file.
File Joiner Works on any file type but is particularly useful for Master Splitter-type files (.001 to .999) and MPeg-format clips (.mpg, .mp3, etc.)

WareSeeker Editor

A simple tool designed to allow users to view any file in text format File Viewer is a simple tool designed to allow users to view any file in text format e.g. like Notepad. You can change the font and the background colour.

SurF File Manager is a free Windows file manager featuring Tabs and dragndrop support, QuickPath, Dynamic directories size analysis takes into account NTFS compression, Realtime highlighting for just created and modified files and many other features.
Main features:
Tabs
- Startup directories [tabs] are fixed. Changing directory inside fixed tab creates new tab. You can close fixed tab like an ordinary one.
Views
- Besides standard file view you can view files by size and by time. Size view dynamically calculates subdirectories size and sorts them by size on disk. Size of the files on disk takes into account NTFS compression, NTFS sparse files and disk cluster size.
Icons
- Besides standard icons for files, SurF makes icons from image files. This process is slow, so, some limitations based on picture file size apply. Default limitations can be changed using Pictures icons settings dialog.
Groups
- Files are divided by groups based on their extensions. Inside each group sorting is based on file name. Default groups can be modified using File groups settings dialog.
Settings
- SurF registers Win+S global hotkey for you to activate it at any time. Pressing hotkey when SurF window is already active minimizes it. Hot key is configurable via General settings dialog.
- Editing favorites and startup directories you can drag rows with mouse. To delete row - select it by Shift + Space or by clicking on row header and then press Delete key. Use F2 key to edit cells.
File operations
- If current directory has parent directory, it is represented as " . . ". Current directory is represented as " . ".
- You can dragndrop selected files from SurF to Windows Explorer and back. Default mode is move. To copy files hold down Control key. You can drag selected file name from SurF to cmd.exe. If you drop file on directory item in SurF, then it will be the target directory. You can additionally hold Alt key while dropping files to auto-rename files on paste. If you drop file on tab name, files go there. You can additionally hold Shift key to open selected tab (or target directory) after paste.
- When you copy files to clipboard full path text is placed to clipboard along with files and you can paste it in text edit fields.
- To find file in current directory - quickly type several first characters of file name.
QuickPath
- In QuickPath Search field you can type for example csys32 to open c:\windows\system32. First letter should be a drive letter. Search is limited to 3 subdirectories: c36 will find c:\1\2\3\4\5\6, but c4 will not find c:\1\2\3\4.
- To search only subdirectories of current directory enter .(dot) as first character. For example, when file tab shows c:\1 typing .45 will find 2\3\4\5.
- Access to network shares
- If you enter server name in Network server dialog (e.g. our_server) Select share dialog will appear. Shares that you cant open look gray. You can select several shares to open at once. Connecting to Windows 9x computer with password protected share, select this share and check "Connect to selected share" before clicking Reconnect as.

Huge Small File - Creates fake large file in order to share on filesharing clients like DC++ This is a freeware application which creates fake huge files on a NTFS disk which can be shared using common filesharing clients like DC++. Using Huge Small File you can saftly share legal content.
This application works only on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 systems ON NTFS partitions.