Xfile
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| Developer: | Rixstep |
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| Latest release: | 1.8.0 / 19 February 2007 |
| OS: | Mac OS X |
| Use: | File Manager |
| Website: | http://rixstep.com/4/0/xfile/ |
Xfile, developed by Rixstep, is a completely Cocoa and Unix based file manager for the Mac OS X operating system written for professional developers and system/network administrators.
The latest major version, 1.8, was released on February 19, 2007 and includes complete support for all Unix intrinsics including device numbers, major and minor device type numbers, inodes, modes, both symbolic and hard links, sticky, SGID and SUID bits, 'chflags' flags, file generation numbers, access to all file systems (/dev, ./vol et. al.) and device mount info. It also flags HFS+ characteristics such as resource forks. It's the only file manager for the platform that, together with the Xfile System, covers all Unix and HFS+ file system characteristics on Mac OS X.
Xfile also includes a convient 'launch pad' for opening files with arbitrary applications.
Xfile is built with the developer and administrator in mind so that speed and efficiency are the most important considerations. Its hallmarks are being able to list more data faster than any other file manager (~10000 files in ten columns of data per second), providing access to all disk data (even normally hidden or 'invisible' data) and having an extremely frugal disk footprint (116 KB for the entire package, < 40 KB for the executable).
Xfile is part of a larger package of ~20 applications called the Xfile System which in turn is part of an even larger package of >80 apps called the ACP. A full license is thus the price of the ACP, currently $79.00.
The new version 1.8 released 19 February 2007 includes support for all file systems simultaneously — HFS+, HFSX, UFS, ZFS, fdesc (/dev), volfs (/.vol), NFS (automount) et al.
