tools.stefankueng.com
SKTimeStamp is a Windows shell extension that adds a tab to the Explorer properties dialog. The tab allows changing the date and time of files and folders. It requires Windows 10 22H2 or later.
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master.ayra.ch
text2img converts text files to images and allows uploading to imgur. It supports almost all encodings, primarily for NFO files with ASCII art. Images and text are processed in memory only, with no temporary files stored.
antibody-software.com
WizFile is a file finder utility for Windows that locates files by name, path, size and date, showing results as the user types. It monitors the file system so results update in real time, and it reads the NTFS Master File Table directly to build its internal database quickly. It also supports non-NTFS hard drives, network drives, USB drives and individual directories.
tahoe-lafs.org
Tahoe-LAFS is a file utility for storage, cleanup, downloads, syncing, previews, or file management.
veracrypt.fr
VeraCrypt is a file utility for storage, cleanup, downloads, syncing, previews, or file management.
github.com
age is a file encryption tool, format and Go library with small explicit keys, post-quantum support, no config options, and UNIX-style composability. It provides an age-keygen command for generating keys and can encrypt or decrypt files, including piping data through it. Install packages are listed for several systems, and plugins such as age-plugin-yubikey support hardware tokens.
antp.be
Ant Renamer is a free program for renaming large numbers of files and folders using specified settings, and it supports Unicode names. It offers operations such as replacing character strings, inserting or moving characters, deleting characters, enumeration, case changes, regular expressions and name creation from EXIF or MP3 tag information. The page notes it is an old project started in 2003, still maintained but based on old tools.
sourceforge.net
AstroGrep is a Microsoft Windows GUI file searching utility based on grep. Its features include regular expressions, recursive directory searching, concurrent multiple file types, a context feature that selects lines above and below the search expression, and exporting and printing options. It also stores recently used file names, file types and search expressions.
nirsoft.net
HashMyFiles is a small utility that calculates MD5, SHA1, CRC32, SHA-256, SHA-512 and SHA-384 hashes of one or more files. The hash list can be copied to the clipboard or saved to text, HTML or XML files, and the utility can be launched from the Windows Explorer context menu to display hashes of a selected file or folder. It works on Windows 2000 through Windows 11.
birds-are-nice.me
Minuimus is a file optimiser utility script that makes files smaller without compromising their contents, using file-specific optimisations such as decompressing and recompressing data. By default its optimisations are transparent, preserving image pixels, media quality and metadata unaltered. It consists of a perl script and optional binaries, released under the GPL v3 license, and runs on Ubuntu Linux and Windows via Strawberry Perl.
crates.io
ouch is a file utility for storage, cleanup, downloads, syncing, previews, or file management.
tweaking4all.com
Rename My TV Series is a file utility for storage, cleanup, downloads, syncing, previews, or file management.
ssuiteoffice.com
SSuite File Shredder and Burner is a file utility for storage, cleanup, downloads, syncing, previews, or file management.
emcosoftware.com
EMCO UnLock IT is a free Windows program for investigating and releasing locks on file system resources. It shows the processes that hold locks on a resource and allows the locks to be released. The download page provides an EXE installer and technical requirements.
0xacab.org
Web Version (mat2-web) is a web-based implementation of the mat2 tool, hosted at https://metadata.systemli.org/. It is part of the jvoisin/mat2-web GitLab repository, was created on November 11, 2018, and is released under the MIT license.
alternate-tools.com
Alternate File Shredder is a Windows program that deletes files and folders so that recovery is not possible. It can also overwrite free space on a drive, so already deleted files cannot be restored. Users can choose how overwriting is done, using a specific value, random values or a file content as a template. It is freeware/open source and requires the .NET framework 2.0.
doublecmd.sourceforge.io
Double Commander is a free cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and includes an internal text editor, a file viewer for hex, binary or text formats, archive handling, extended search with full text search, and support for Total Commander plug-ins. It offers FTP, FTPS, FTPES, SSH+SCP and SFTP protocols support, a multi-rename tool and a tabbed interface.
peazip.github.io
PeaZip is a free, open-source file archiver utility for Windows, macOS and Linux. It opens and extracts RAR, TAR and ZIP archives and supports more than 200 formats. The software is built on 7-Zip, Zstandard, FreeArc, Brotli and PAQ compressor technologies. It adds two-factor authentication with a password and keyfile for formats supporting encryption, and it is natively portable.
voidtools.com
Alpha is a file utility for storage, cleanup, downloads, syncing, previews, or file management.
github.com
Syncthing-Fork is an Android wrapper of Syncthing, derived from the syncthing/syncthing-android project. It is licensed under MPLv2, with builds available from the releases section or F-Droid. The project points to a wiki and knowledge base and notes a path for switching from the deprecated official version.
mediaarea.net
MediaInfo is a tool that displays technical and tag data for video and audio files. It shows container, video, audio, text and chapter details, and supports formats including MPEG-4, Matroska, AVI, H.264 and MP3. It is available with a graphical interface, command line interface or library version, and is open-source software.
upx.github.io
UPX is a free executable file compressor for several executable formats, including Windows programs and DLLs, macOS apps and Linux executables. It typically reduces the file size of programs and DLLs by around 50%-70%, and compressed programs are self-contained. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License with full source code available.
github.com
BasicSync is an Android app for running Syncthing. The project is intentionally kept basic for easier maintenance and updating. BasicSync only controls when Syncthing runs, while configuration is done through Syncthing's own web UI. It supports Android 8 and newer and external storage such as SD cards and USB drives.
0-range.github.io
Orange is a cross-platform desktop application for searching local files. It offers tokenization and auto completion, monitors file system changes in real time, and provides millisecond-level search with low memory and CPU resource usage.