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BeCommander is as Genesis Commander alternative tools to Tracker when it come to file management. If you are to move a large number of files arround on your system. These two tools can be good alternatives to the Tracker. It therefore make sence to add shortcuts the Tracker and also the Terminal. When opening the Tracker or the Terminal, they will be opened in the active directory in BeCommander. BeCommander's window is divided in to two smaller windows. These windows are listing the content of their directories. The paths of the directories are shown above the two windows (in the screenshot below as /boot/home).

Below the two windows you can see the total size of the selections you make and the total size of the directory you are in. In addition to this, you can see how many files you have selected and how many files there are in the directory.

From the windows (panes) you can copy, move and delete files and directories. The application also supports drag & drop and for those who rather works with the keyboard, keyboard shortcuts are implemented.

In the File menu you will find typical Tracker tasks: When you have selected a file you can form this menu choose to Open or Rename it. You can also in the same way as in the Tracker Get Info about the file. Some of the same information is also shown in the panes, as date of when the file was last changed and the permissions set on the file. You can also choose to Delete the file or the file selection, and then straight afterwards choose to Empty Trash so that the files don't occupie space.

BeCommander comes with an integrated FTP client that supports upload and download of files. You can also remotely delete files and directories. These commands are the same as standard file operations in BeCommander.

By default BeCommander opens with two smaller windows (panes), but you can open as many windows as you like by choosing Add Pane.

As you are working with a journaling file system, you might want to do a query. An example would be finding all files of a surtant date.

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