But the limitations above will keep it from getting a 5 out of me for as long as they continue to exist.

The main reason I use FLP is for its very-useful 'contents view' feature. Alt+N to go to the 'File name' text box Alt+C to go to the 'Containing text' text box, etc.) don't work at all when the file list has focus, hopefully my points begin to sink in. So, the issue IS that Hialgo cant see the personal files folder. When you throw in the fact that FLP's built-in accelerator keys (i.e. The personal files folder is exactly where it was placed by default. Again, this runs counter to any decent file finder or Explorer replacement, not to mention Explorer itself. This also means, of course, that FLP can't work with any shell extensions making use of DragDropHandlers registration.īut zridling's Alt+Enter suggestion led me to a new FLP discovery (read: annoyance/limitation): Alt+Enter does bring up a file's Properties dialog, but Alt+DoubleClick simply runs the file. FileLocator Pro 3.0 still only lets you drag-and-drop with the left mouse button (to perform a copy), but not at all with the right mouse button (to do. The PowerDesk Pro applet also supports full drag-and-drop. I don't expect it to be a full-fledged renaming utility but even PowerDesk Pro's 'File Finder' applet supports F2 renaming (which, come on now, is the de-facto standard for renaming a file in Windows).

Filelocator pro fails to find documents