Caja

Caja is a fork of Nautilus from GNOME 2 and is native to the MATE Desktop Environment. It is a file manager like the Windows Explorer (not to confuse with Internet Explorer/Microsoft Edge), but for Unix/BSD and Linux. http://www .

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Caja is a fork of Nautilus from GNOME 2 and is native to the MATE Desktop Environment. It is a file manager like the Windows Explorer (not to confuse with Internet Explorer/Microsoft Edge), but for Unix/BSD and Linux.

http://www.matedesktop.org/

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Support for WebDAV Dual pane support

The Best 38 Caja Alternatives

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Double Commander

Double Commander is a cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Optimal performance Dual pane support Search in Archives Dark theme Tree view Lua scripting Flat view
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Midnight Commander

GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD MacPorts Cygwin

Minimalistic Lightweight Dual pane support File compression Support for FTP Support for SFTP SSH Console based Mounting drives
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Nautilus

Nautilus (Files) is a file manager designed to fit the Gnome desktop design and behaviour, giving the user a simple way to navigate and manage its files.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux MacPorts XQuartz

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for FTP
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Far Manager

Far Manager is a program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems.

Free Open Source Windows

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Dual pane support Plugin support Command line interface Console based
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Thunar

Thunar is a new modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Thunar has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy-to-use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any confusing or useless options.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux MacPorts XQuartz Xfce
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Dolphin File Manager

Dolphin is a file manager for KDE focusing on usability. Has three view modes: Icon, Detail and it used to have Column View like in Finder (it is not available in current version due to problems with maintaibility).

Free Open Source Linux KDE

Tabbed interface Dual pane support File compression Copy files SSH
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Forklift

"Dual pane file manager and SFTP/FTP client for Mac OS X ForkLift is designed to be the fastest, most powerful file manager for the Mac.

Commercial Mac OS X Mac
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Nemo

nemo is the official file manager for the linux mint operating system running the cinnamon desktop. it re-introduced several features removed from the file manager nautilus, from which it originated.

Free Open Source Linux
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PCMan File Manager

An extremely fast and lightweight file manager which features tabbed browsing and user-friendly interface.

Free Open Source Linux Xfce

Tabbed browsing Lightweight
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Finder

The Finder is the default application program used on the Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems that is responsible for the overall user-management of files, disks, network volumes and the launching of other applications.

Free Mac OS X

Support for WebDAV Miller columns
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V - The File Viewer

V is an all-purpose File Manager for Windows. V is not just another Windows Explorer replacement. Its main strength is its inbuilt file viewer which excels at viewing files quickly - whether they are 100 bytes or 100 gigabytes in size.

Commercial Windows

Portable File compression
23 Like

My Commander

My Commander (MyCO) is "the small - smarter - fastest file manager in the world", archiver and ISO creator for Windows 7. Small and smart, MyCO uses less of your computer's memory while it's running.

Free Windows

Portable Integrated Search Tabbed interface File compression Destroy files Secure Copy (SCP)
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Xfe

Fast, light, and flexible file manager. Xfe only requires the FOX library to be fully functional. Plus, it can be launched from the command line in a fraction of second. Xfe can also efficiently complete terminal commands.

Free Open Source Linux Xfce
17 Like

GNOME Commander

GNOME Commander is a "two-pane" graphical file manager for the GNOME desktop environment.

Free Open Source Linux

Dual pane support Support for FTP
14 Like

SpaceFM

Multi-panel tabbed file and desktop manager with built-in VFS, udev- or HAL-based device manager, customisable menu system, and bash integration.

Free Open Source Linux
13 Like

Tux Commander

tux commander is a windowed file manager with 2 panels side by side similar to popular total commander or midnight commander file managers.

Free Open Source Linux Xfce

Dual pane support Support for FTP Support for SFTP
11 Like

Pantheon Files

the simple, powerful, and sexy file manager from elementary os. pantheon files is one of the rare filemanagers that uses the "miller columns" view.

Free Open Source Linux

Tabbed interface Miller columns
10 Like

UltraExplorer

UltraExplorer is a Windows Explorer replacement that will change the way you think about file management. Other Explorer replacement applications duplicate the same old paradigm introduced by Microsoft in Windows 95.

Free Windows

Tree view Miller columns
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Marlin

Marlin is a new GTK3-based file manager for Linux, pretty slick and fast. Unlike most other file managers Marlin has included the so called "Miller columns" view.

Free Open Source Linux

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Tabbed browsing Dropbox integration Miller columns
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CRAX Commander

An efficient dual-pane file manager that enables you to browse your drive's content in an organized environment via intuitive actions.

Commercial Mac OS X

Tabbed interface Dual pane support

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The Best 38 Caja Alternatives

Double Commander

Midnight Commander

Nautilus

Far Manager

Thunar

Dolphin File Manager

Forklift

Nemo

PCMan File Manager

Finder

V - The File Viewer

My Commander

Xfe

GNOME Commander

SpaceFM

Tux Commander

Pantheon Files

UltraExplorer

Marlin

CRAX Commander

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