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By: Ian Binnie   Homepage   Sydney  
Date: Jul 05,2013 at 17:51
In Response to: [Discuss] webTree? (Peter Shute)

> > I was just trying to read into ZTree's future, which is no easy
> task
>
> I suspect its future is bleak because for most people it's outlived its
> main purpose, which was for clearing out disk space. (I use it for a lot
> more than that, but I'm guessing this is why it came into existence.)
>
> I think storage space has become so cheap that for many users they
> simply won't ever fill their terabyte disks no matter how sloppy their
> file usage is. Most of those who do will have filled them with music,
> photos and videos, which aren't that difficult to manage because they're
> just a flat series of files.
>
> I don't like the idea of trying to find files by date, etc, with
> Explorer, but it can be done.
>
> The days of wandering around a labyrinth of folders trying to find out
> which spreadsheet or document or collection of them is unnecessarily
> large are probably over for many. Why bother when you can just buy more?
> Once upon a time this meant the pain of reinstalling the OS if there
> wasn't any room for more drives, but USB3 makes multiple external drives
> very practical.
>
> That leaves those of us who like a keyboard driven interface, and I
> think we're a dying breed.

Pater,

I can only imagine you are a child who cannot imagine a time before Windows.
ZTreeWin (not ZTree) was an extension to XTREE with support for 32bit, and later long filenames and, of course, additional memory.

XTREE, while innovative, and ASFAIK the first "graphical" file manager for MSDOS was a (greatly improved) successor to SWEEP and CWEEP on CP/M (which didn't even have "directories").

If you really don't understand the "main" use of ZTreeWin, try managing your filesystem without ZTreeWin or even Explorer.

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