Altap Salamander
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A small and two-pane file manager with open plugin architecture. Has the ability to view content of files (text, html, over 40 picture formats, mp3), support for archives (zip, rar, arj, cab, tar/gzip, etc.), and (S)FTP support.
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Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Customizable
Features
- Dual Pane Support
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- SSH
- Support for SFTP
- Built-in viewer
- No registration required
- Works Offline
- Ad-free
- File Compression
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What is Altap Salamander?
A small and two-pane file manager with open plugin architecture. Has the ability to view content of files (text, html, over 40 picture formats, mp3), support for archives (zip, rar, arj, cab, tar/gzip, etc.), and (S)FTP support.
Altap Salamander information
Developed by
ALTAP Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
50 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Altap Salamander is the most consistent and practical application I have ever worked with. It is always open on my desktop.
It has clean, uncluttered graphical interface. Almost every aspect of UI and behavior can be customized.
It has a set of very useful plugins, some of which I use very often: Text Viewer, Database Viewer, PictView (which can make a Screen Capture), Batch File Renamer; or from time to time: Disk Map, File Undelete and others.
The only drawback I experience is the lack of unicode support in Text Viewer, though Database Viewer supports unicode.
All in all, I like this application very much.
Whee! Middle toolbar! At last. The interface is not as slick as Dopus though. Integrated SSH/SCP support in the 32 bit version.
Performance and RAM usage are very good. Lots of advanced features for being free. All good. 😀
But ..
No tree view, no bookmarks or Favorites, no multi-tab bar. 😧
In terms of basic navigation, this is a huge downside. Imagine that you are a user who has to go back and forth between a lot of folders. You can't pin as a tab, nor can you bookmark it. Only double panels should solve this problem. Or you'll have to search the forums for a while for possible special plugins and difficult-to-use procedures.
I may not be able to find the basic navigation features I mentioned above. But that just proves that the UX is a mess. I spent enough time looking for those features. If I'm wrong, please point it out in a reply.
For me, Altap Salamander is the one I can work with best among all the Explorer alternatives I have tested. For example, I have tried FreeCommander and Double Commander as alternatives, but have always returned to Altap Salamander.
The reasons why I am looking for alternatives are:
I would like to see other explorers follow Altap Salamander's usability.
I find the WinMerge option confusing. It seems to work sometimes, but not all the times
I'm still searching for a viable alternative to Altap Salamander on Mac.