[oldswitcher]

I'm using Mac for about 1 year and must say that it was not an easy way to swith from PC. Actually, sometimes I still have to launch Virtual PC to run some app that I don't have on Mac. For example, MS Access or some data format convertors I need to use while working. Another hand is it wasn't so much easier to get accustomed to Mac OS X and Finder. On Windows many advanced users don't use Explorer for file operations, because it's multiple-window interface sometimes makes you drown in them and many of these users used windows from the first version and even before... when there was't any Windows and there was DOS and everybody used apps like Norton Commander. Later they used Total Commander for Windows... I think that many of such users (like me) switching to Mac are having a lot of head ache, because they can't any app like Total Commander for Mac. So was me before I tried to search Internet for something like that and typed something like 'Total Commander for Mac OS X' in Google and found the app named Disk Order 1.1. It looks like TC but maken for Mac OS X and it's action is very similar to above mentioned file manager. It hepled me greatly to get used to Mac. I think it's a real way for users like me to switch to Mac.

[Goldfinger]

Check out Path Finder. http://www.cocoatech.com/. Maybe you like it, it's a kind of enhanced version of the Finder.

[philm]

Please could you explain the features of Total Commander and exactly what you are trying replicate.

[jamil5454]

Originally posted by oldswitcher:
I'm using Mac for about 1 year and must say that it was not an easy way to swith from PC. Actually, sometimes I still have to launch Virtual PC to run some app that I don't have on Mac. For example, MS Access or some data format convertors I need to use while working. Another hand is it wasn't so much easier to get accustomed to Mac OS X and Finder. On Windows many advanced users don't use Explorer for file operations, because it's multiple-window interface sometimes makes you drown in them and many of these users used windows from the first version and even before... when there was't any Windows and there was DOS and everybody used apps like Norton Commander. Later they used Total Commander for Windows... I think that many of such users (like me) switching to Mac are having a lot of head ache, because they can't any app like Total Commander for Mac. So was me before I tried to search Internet for something like that and typed something like 'Total Commander for Mac OS X' in Google and found the app named Disk Order 1.1. It looks like TC but maken for Mac OS X and it's action is very similar to above mentioned file manager. It hepled me greatly to get used to Mac. I think it's a real way for users like me to switch to Mac.

Great story.

[mdc]

Originally posted by philm:
Please could you explain the features of Total Commander and exactly what you are trying replicate.

total commander is a windows version of the old (dos) norton commander.

it is a dual pane windows explorer try app.
browse to one folder on the left pane, tab to the right, browse to another folder. f5 to copy files between panes. f8 to delete.
it has a built in ftp client.

it is very handy, but since i moved to mac os, i have never felt that finder required me to need it. windows explorer on the other hand i did not like, therefore total commander it was. but finder handles itself very well.

total commander

[darkcore]

Originally posted by oldswitcher:
I'm using Mac for about 1 year and must say that it was not an easy way to swith from PC. Actually, sometimes I still have to launch Virtual PC to run some app that I don't have on Mac. For example, MS Access or some data format convertors I need to use while working. Another hand is it wasn't so much easier to get accustomed to Mac OS X and Finder. On Windows many advanced users don't use Explorer for file operations, because it's multiple-window interface sometimes makes you drown in them and many of these users used windows from the first version and even before... when there was't any Windows and there was DOS and everybody used apps like Norton Commander. Later they used Total Commander for Windows... I think that many of such users (like me) switching to Mac are having a lot of head ache, because they can't any app like Total Commander for Mac. So was me before I tried to search Internet for something like that and typed something like 'Total Commander for Mac OS X' in Google and found the app named Disk Order 1.1. It looks like TC but maken for Mac OS X and it's action is very similar to above mentioned file manager. It hepled me greatly to get used to Mac. I think it's a real way for users like me to switch to Mac.

try muCommander: http://www.mucommander.com/