blog: moon rolling eyes

[nikos]

I am not aware of any speed problems with xplorer2 copying, in the default settings. I am open to be proven wrong. As for the "other file managers", the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, so why don't you go and live with the neighbours for a while and then see actually what it feels like and whether they are shining perfect or not

[dunno]

"Sir, it's impossible to extract more power from 4 cylinders, we've obtained maximum efficiency and power",

"well how about a super charger charger, or a turbo charger ?",

"Sir, nobody has done that before so it can't be done !",

"Oh all right, just put a sticker on it saying enhanced performance, that'll sell it".

[Kilmatead]

"Oh all right, just put a sticker on it saying enhanced performance, that'll sell it".

Exactamundo!

Propaganda is so high these days that most users don't even know when they're being conned anymore - I saw a recent update for (off-topic) O&O Defrag, whose recent "changelog" included a nice-sounding "Optimization of Solid State Drives" which is total and complete rubbish as solid state drives should never even come near a defrag utility (for those who don't know: defragging is literally a form of techno-cancer for SSD's)... overnight a whole product line was rendered irrelevant, and they are scrambling to keep their consumers. (In this case, they are proclaiming advanced TRIM support, but that's already built into the controllers [and Windows itself] and can only be improved by the firmware manufacturer, not any software the user may adopt.) So all companies (of any computing product) must deal with a tide of perception which (in many cases) is just that: perception, not reality.

Like it or not (and I don't) the concept of file-management is moving away from the purely hardware-based desktop, and entering into the arena where a million competing API's are vying for the attention of the hapless user suckling at the poison teat of online promises - Onedrive, Hadoop, you-name it, a hundred and one "distributed computing paradigms" are burning their bras and letting it all hang out.

Once upon a time it was they who had to adapt to you, but now (given the general dumbing-down of the average user and the knowledge they are no longer expected to have) even computers themselves are no longer computers (what the hell's a Chromebook but a piece of tech-paper with a phone number on it) and people (not me) expect you do adapt to them.

In your case, it's commendable enough that you try to resist this, but your approach of essentially ignoring it (or worse: telling the truth) is not what users want to hear, they want the reassurance that their attentions are being addressed and even the smallest most superficial things (UI, anyone?) are designed to cater for them, not push them away.

Note that I'm not talking about functionality (that buzzword is overused), I'm talking about the strange position where not only do you (as a developer) need to have the necessary knowledge of your mouse-trap, but you also need to be a snake-oil salesman and know how to convince the proletariat that they are best equipped with your toys.

...why don't you go and live with the neighbours for a while and then see actually what it feels like and whether they are shining perfect or not

Would you like a list of things they do better? I have one. Somehow I think publishing that aspect of my public bashing would annoy you even more than it does now, where I happily keep it civilly tangential (believe it or not).

...cant we have a "fvck I'm at home alone" setting for networking bandwidth

Build in a placebo and they will tick it, proclaiming the glory unto the sunder.

[Tuxman]

Would you like a list of things they do better? I have one.

I guess most people using "alternative" file managers (alternative to what, anyway?) do keep a list like this in their heads. There's no such thing as "the best file manager", but there is a thing like "the file manager that sucks less". Depending on your needs, this may vary over time, different file managers usually have different target audiences too. This might not be true for Directory Opus though.

My plan to write my own file manager is postponed until further notice.

[nikos]

it just occured to me that another reason xplorer2 may appear slow copying HUGE files (over 1GB) is that it uses an unbuffered mode to protect your system's memory. If you don't need this protection then use TOOLS > ADVANCED OPTIONS menu and seek Huge file limit option in GLOBAL page

[dunno]

If you don't need this protection then use TOOLS > ADVANCED OPTIONS menu and seek Huge file limit option in GLOBAL page

OK, what do I do, set it to zero or, > 1024 for faster > 1GB file transfers ?.

thanks for the info.

[nikos]

if you don't care about the protection offered (if you don't have problems) then set it to 0. However there is a bug with the advanced settings editor there so you need to edit the registry value nUnbufferedCopyMB and set it to 0 while xplorer2 isn't running. See registry.txt in the installation folder for more details