Quote from: JeffMac on May 30, 2024, 16:39:57what makes you think you need a complicated "file manager?"
Complication itself is not a virtue but availability of all needed actions is essential. GUI file managers tend to omit advanced batch processing only found in command line interfaces. Apart from that, powerful GUI file managers are still outdone for particular classes of actions, such as advanced renaming of many files and folders. If we also ignore this, reasonably powerful GUI file managers must offer every standard action at least on one to all objects in a folder. For this purpose, the Windows file explorer is reasonable as long as one does not need simultaneous views on multiple folders for actions between them; some other file managers do that kind of actions better. If a file manager offers less actions than the Windows file explorer, it is a failure for my usage. And no, the Windows file explorer is not complicated for standard tasks. It only becomes complicated for access to advanced changes of access rights of files and folders because NTFS security is complicated.
QuoteWe are doing most of the work on documents/images/videos, not managing files.
Maybe, but I belong to those for whom managing files is as important as working on file contents. Given my, say, million of files, I need file management that works as well on hundreds of thousands at a time as on one single file. Work on contents and file management are almost alternating tasks. Neither makes much sense without the other. So it is immaterial that one spends 99% of time on contents and only 1% on file management. That is, if the file management is good and powerful enough having to spend only so little time. If file managers are inefficient, a much greater part of one's time might have to be wasted on file management. E.g., for a file action on Windows I might need 1 second while for the same file action to be split in many actions I sometimes need half an hour and in extreme cases months. I do not know about Mac's Finder but hope its usage is closer to Windows than i(Pad)OS.