Open Source File Managers

DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application: It allows you to search the contents of files on your computer. — You can think of it as Google for your local files. The application runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

RED searches and deletes empty directories recursively below a given start folder and shows the result in a well arranged tree. Further you can create some custom rules for keeping and deleting folders. Empty files in directories can also be ignored.

Katalog is a desktop application to manage catalogs of disks and files: - Create catalogs from different sources or devices, - Search files even when the devices are disconnected, and find duplicates or differences - Organize your Collection of catalogs, Storage devices, and Virtual storage devices and get Statistics, - Data is stored in csv (tab separated) files for full control by the user, - Available in multiple languages - OpenSource and cross-platform (Linux Plasma and Windows 64 installer or portable). First use / tips - Simply start with the Create screen. Create your first catalog and experiment! - All data/catalog files are stored in the Settings/Collection folder. Documentation/Wiki: https://stephanecouturier.github.io/Katalog/ Follow Katalog on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Katalog-107117844916308 Follow active development: https://github.com/users/StephaneCouturier/projects/7

DocFetcher Pro – Fast, Powerful Desktop Search Software for Windows, macOS & Linux Looking for a smarter, faster way to search through your files and documents? DocFetcher Pro is an advanced, open-source desktop search tool that lets you instantly find text and content within files stored on your computer. Designed for professionals, researchers, students, and everyday users, DocFetcher Pro indexes your files locally—providing lightning-fast, Google-style search results right on your desktop. Whether you're managing thousands of PDFs, spreadsheets, presentations, emails, or text files, DocFetcher Pro helps you locate the information you need without having to open each file manually. It’s the ultimate productivity booster for anyone dealing with large volumes of digital documents.

DuMP3 is a duplicate and similar file finder. It finds exact duplicate binaries by hash, similar text files by substring content, images (JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, etc) by color and audio files (MP3, WAV, OGG, etc) by wave data. Future: fonts, video.

A small application for listing the contents(files/folders/extensions) of a folder. The results includes file name length/full path length/maximum extensions. It supports exporting a report in .txt/.csv format with fully customizable contents.

All my USB Contents - Storage Catalog is a media cataloging tool to index media contents This utility acts as a helpful librarian to help you keep track of documents, music, videos, and program files. Storage Catalog essentially downloads materials from either a CD or drive into an independent database that you can then organize any way you choose. This is a powerful and quick program that should be handy for both experienced home users and system administrators. The operation at the base of the program is simple: a device (USB / CD / folder) is scanned, the tree is reconstructed recursively with all the folders and files and all informations are stored in a SQlite DB. Now you can unplug the device and assign a category or a comment to each file or folder. You can perform searches by entering the song title, artist, filename and the program tells you on which device the file is. Moreover categorizing the various files and folders you can put everything according to logical group

Puggle is a graphical desktop search engine written exclusively in Java. It provides full text and metadata search over files, folders, music, photos, web pages and more that are stored locally on your computer.

Java application using tree map algorithms to visualise disc space usage. Lets find forgotten large "space-eaters" files in an easy way.

This small C# (mono or MS.NET 3.5 required) console program generates text or html output which lists directories and files. Copies of directory or file names will be marked in HTML output. I use it to find files in a messy company network.

disk manager is a CD/DVD archiving tool. It storys the directory contents of any media so you can search it later. Its also designed as file explorer which makes it easy to find big files. Windows Version supports native file context menus.

This is a autorun menu for cd's. It link a name with a file and a short description. It can execute/open files, copy directories, execute commands, etc and it is really easy to use. (Spanish)

A Java-based powerful disk usage utility. It outputs a table and a tree (both can be sorted). TinyScan is able to export the result to Excel, Access, MySQL and it can also scan remote computers. It is free and open source.

sfbf (Search For Big Files) is a useful console application to search for largest files on file systems. It brings features such as : - Fast file search to locate largest files - Configurable search depth - Various output formats (txt, json, xml, html, csv) - Regular expression matching This project is licensed under the WTFPL (Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2) Copyright © 2017 spypunk spypunk@gmail.com This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See the COPYING file for more details.

A simple document management system (DMS). Documents and associated datas are stored in a single file. Keep all your documents in your pocket on your USB stick.

FastSeach is a "Search Engine" for windows that pre-scan the entire pc for files and then able to search the system for files in a more fast and easy way. the idea is based on the "locate" package from the linux platform + extra Features.

GLScube is an Augmented File System designed to offer a rich interface to the users' data, and pull, both end-users and developers, from thinking about Where a Document is to What a Document is about.

Integra desktop search engine - cross-platform, portable, embeddable, extensible search engine and search tools (both console and GUI) for developers and end-users. Full unicode support, easy UI localisation, plugins for document parsers and unpackers.

Plait (pronounced "play") is a command-line jukebox and music player front-end. It understands brief queries that pick a single song, mix queries that combine works from multiple artists, and stream queries that find Shoutcast radio streams.

iMeMex is a dataspace management system. iMeMex is a research prototype. The package also provides several useful components for research such as external sorting, B+-trees, inverted indexes, content converters, query operators, and graph indexes.

UI frontend for sfbf, a useful application to search for largest files on file systems It brings features such as : - Fast file search to locate largest files - Configurable search depth - Various export formats (txt, json, xml, html) - Regular expression matching This project is licensed under the WTFPL (Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2) Copyright © 2017 spypunk spypunk@gmail.com This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See the COPYING file for more details.

Files, text, and bookmarks html/json search tool. It is able to merge duplicated bookmark links from multiple html/json files and export to html. The user interface is designed to be used by kyeboard in any aspect of its features scrolling list, select input field, menu bar, check and drop-down menu and so on. It's able to printout search list to pdf or system printer or save as text file. It allows to rename single file or change upper/lower case, join spaces in bulk mode with multiple level of undo and redo capability. You are also able to copy selected files to another location as single element or with its orginal parent folder usuful for audio and video files. You can launch the program associate with the file or open it in its container folder. For audio/video/text files you can configure for each of them a program to use and configure options to pass to the program. For example you could use, for example, Notepad++ and pass in its option "-n<number>" to open at certain row.

DiskAt is disk/media catalogue app supporting multiple categories per item, good search and features which allow to use it as Movie/DVD/etc database. Written with PHP/Python/SQLite.

DupLichaSe is a very fast Duplicate File Detector that uses inductive heuristics to detect duplicate files very fast; based on content! DupLichaSe stands out from EVERY other Duplicate file detection Software because of it's graph based semi-automatic selection system. ... after finding 100s of duplicate files, do you have to go through some manual and possibly laborious process of deleting the duplicates? ...or is there a way for the Software to learn and do most of it for you in a SAFE and RECOVERABLE MANNER? YES!! There is!! ...This Software will ALSO help you and delete duplicate files, after you must have taken action on a a FEW important files(i.e large files that are duplicates). ++Thanks to its trivial Graph based suggestion System

(Production/Stable) High performance multithreaded enterprise solution. Generates 64 bit file CRC snapshots. Uses SQL database for advanced analysis. Suitable for finding duplicate, modified, added, and deleted files across multiple computers and disks.