The BEST File Manager for Windows
Works with and greatly enhances:
Windows 11, 10
Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP
Servers 2003 and later
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What's New / What's Up
Version 4: the future
Major new tools, significant upgrades to current components and faster folder listings.
- Find and rename problem files: bad paths, illegal characters, Linux & iOS (Mac) characters.
- Check files and folders for compliance with different file systems e.g., NTFS, Fat-16, Fat-32, eFat, CDs, iOS, Linux and custom.
Know if the files are right before you copy. - Delete files no matter their length or how they are named.
- Powerful renaming with RegEx e.g. change 'Romeo Smith' into 'Smith, Romeo' and much more.
- Lightening fast directory listing no matter how large the folder.
- Detailed reports for copy errors.
- Variable text size for views and dialogs.
- and many more improvements and fixes..
See the V4 preview here.
Update May 2017
A May 2017 Microsft security update for Windows 10 conflicted with a major routine in FileBoss resulting in FileBoss not starting on some Windows 10 systems.
Versions V3.101 and later, fix the problem. You can read more about this at the page
Windows Creators Conflict.
Best Practices for Filenames
Rules for Safe Filenames
If you have a small file system on a totally closed computer where you will never share or send a file to someone else, will never receive a file from someone else, will never store a file on an external drive such as a tumbdrive, USB drive, CD, DVD, or on a network then this discussion is not for you. Otherwise it could save you a lot of trouble.
What determins what are good filenames
Operating systems such as Window, Mac, Unix and Linx provide an interface to files or more precisely an interface to different, underlying file systems which actually manage the files on the disk. For example when you rename a file under a version of Windows, Windows then passes along - transparently to you of course - the command along with the old and new names to whatever file system has control over the file. This protects you, many of Windows high level features and programs from having to know all sorts of details about any particular file system.
- Version of
- File name is too long
- One of the folders in the path to the file name is too long
- The path to the filename is too long
- File name (or path) contains illegal characters
- The file name was created by an iOS (Mac), Unix or other operating system
- The file has no name (yes it is possible)
- File is protected by Windows (hidden, system, more...)
- The file is read-only
The file is in use
Problably the most common reason a file can't be renamed, moved or deleted is that it is in use by another program. Many programs, but certainly not all, will put a lock on a file when it opens it
The file name is too long
For all versions of Windows released in the past fifteen years no file name or folder can be longer than
A folder name is too long
The same limitation to the length of the actual file name of 256 characters also applies to the length of any folder along its path.
The length of the path plus the file name is too long
The file name or path contains illegal characters
The file name was created by another system
The file has no name
The file is protected by Windows (hidden,system, more...)
The file is read only
What do you need to do today?