ForkLift: Dual-Paned File Manager for the Mac

Posted by Jordan Chark on 03/25/07 in Applications, Organization, Productivity, Utilities

I just came across Forklift, a fairly new and innovative file manager for the Mac. Utilizing the latest Cocoa technology and taking advantage of the stable and robust UNIX foundation, it provides an easy to use, yet very effective way to manage your data, your remote servers or your mobile devices.

The dual-pane view saves you the trouble of bloating your desktop with connection windows and file listings, enabling the most effective workflow. ForkLift features copying between local hard drives, iPods, FTP servers, archives, and even mobile phones. The app also has great spotlight integration, as well as the ability to work with archives and smart folders as if they were the original folders. ForkLift even has the ability to view file previews either remotely, or from within archives. After using ForkLift for a few hours I’m quite impressed. It definitely lives up and went beyond my expectations. ForkLift is now in a time-limited beta version, so grab it while you can!

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Sherb said on

March 25th, 2007 at 2:05 am

Ahh this will come in handy. Too bad you have to open the app to use it.. would be nice if you could just make a finder window side by side like that.

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dane said on

March 25th, 2007 at 8:11 am

Jordan, thanks for the tip.
I dowloaded ForkLift and now I’m in love with it.
-blazing speed
-nice gui
-super robust though it’s a beta
-amazing features (FTP preview is just lovely)

treemoru said on

March 27th, 2007 at 12:00 pm

This application is a gem.
Thank you for sharing it!

Scott said on

March 31st, 2007 at 5:06 pm

I downloaded this to use as an FTP client, and it works great, but I cant seem to get it to save the FTP login in the bookmarks. Has anyone else had trouble with this?

droger said on

April 1st, 2007 at 2:46 pm

Scott,
I works for me.
Try command-t after you connect, it will add selected folder(s) to the favorites.

KubaMan said on

May 9th, 2007 at 4:49 pm

It’s a piece of shit. Macintosh don’t need a shitty filecommander like this. Also it’s unstable and look ugly. $29? It’s better to eat a sandwhich and go see a movie! I will use anything else but this! Mr.Kuba

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sixthesnow said on

May 10th, 2007 at 1:56 pm

it reminds me of the good old Norton Commander….

is it just me?