What is a File Manager (Explorer)?

About

A file manager/explorer is GUI client that manages one or more file systems.

Features

This is a non-exhaustive list of functionalities:

• file operations (copy, move, delete, make folder, rename, duplicate).
• Background transfers between file system
• Change file attributes: permissions, owner and group (Ctrl-A).
• Add/edit hard and symbolic links (Alt-F6).
• Synchronization.
• Execute command on remote server if the transfer protocol support it.

List

• Windows Explorer (Local only)
• WinScp - Local and SFTP remote
• http://www.mucommander.com/ Java
• Altap Salamander
• Far: FAR Manager (short for File and ARchive Manager) is an orthodox file manager for Microsoft Windows and a clone of Norton Commander. FAR Manager makes use of the Win32 console, and is mostly key-driven.
• https://github.com/servocoder/RichFilemanager (Javascript)
• https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck

Add-on

• http://www.quickaccesspopup.com/ Pin favorites Folder
• Recent Place in Windows: %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\

• http://clumsyleaf.com/products/cloudxplorer

Documentation / Reference

• Comparison of file managers