![]() ![]() You actually have to click a button in the toolbar. ![]() For instance, simply hitting the Space bar in Commander One doesn’t invoke Quick Look like it does in the Finder. In my opinion, the entire app feels cobbled together and lacking in polish. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, none of the features found in Commander One work as well as they do in other apps. I gave Commander One a test run for the last two weeks and compiled my thoughts below. I won’t go into all the features, you can read about them on the website. But if you do need it, the concept of having FTP built-in to Finder windows is certainly enticing.Īlong with it’s marquee FTP feature, Commander One offers the ability to theme it’s file manager window, access a Processes window (similar to Apple’s own Activity Monitor), a built-in Terminal, various file sorting capabilities, integration with Dropbox and more. In fact, other than web developers, I suspect there are few people who need FTP anymore, or even know what it is. The need for an FTP Manager today is rather limited. The biggest feature of Commander One is the built-in FTP file manager. But Commander One promises to offer Path Finder-level features, plus a built-in FTP manager, at an affordable price through the Mac App Store-where you have the luxury of installing it on five Macs at a time. This is nothing new XtraFinder does this to some extent, and and Path Finder have done these things for years. It simply recreates Finder windows and adds a multitude of tweaks and features to them. After looking at the feature list of Commander One, I immediately wondered if it could possibly deliver on the promises it made.Ĭommander One is what you would call a Finder Enhancement app. Unselecting all files also requires a nonstandard Command-hyphen keyboard shortcut.When I decided to take a look at Commander One, I did so with the expectation that I was going to be looking at something that was equal to or better than apps I was already familiar with and/or used on a regular basis-such as XtraFinder, Path Finder, Transmit, etc. Worse yet, selecting multiple non-contiguous items requires holding down the Command key the entire time-that takes some getting used to, since it’s the opposite of how Finder works, where the first click needs no modifier. Such power comes with an overall lack of polish-although Quick Look is built into Commander One, pressing the Space bar doesn’t preview a file or folder, but rather selects or deselects it instead. IDGĬommander One can now directly access iOS devices via Wi-Fi or wired connections, but it’s not quite as intuitive as dedicated software like iMazing. By comparison, the extension is a down and dirty, low-level approach to accessing iOS data, but one better suited to advanced users who know what they’re doing. PhoneView, both of which present mobile data in a more elegant, user-friendly way. Less finesseĪlthough a welcome addition to its arsenal, Commander One’s implementation of iOS device support is no substitute for dedicated utilities like The only way around this limitation is to disable the iOS extension altogether, which can be done from the launch prompt or Preferences > Extensions panel. The Pro Pack upgrade allows Commander One to access FTP or WebDAV servers and cloud services in addition to local and network-attached volumes.Īnother new Pro feature is the ability to mount iOS or MTP devices in addition to Android, although in the case of iOS, an administrator password is required every time Commander One is launched due to Apple’s restrictions. In addition to browsing local and network-attached volumes, the Pro version works with FTP and WebDAV servers as well as cloud services, adding Box and Backblaze to the original lineup (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Amazon S3). The only catch is that, after a 15-day trial period, you’ll have to pony up $30 for the Pro Pack upgrade to use themes, but that purchase unlocks a long list of other features too. ![]()
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