ForkLift – manage files all over the universe and beyond!
ForkLift is designed to be the fastest, most powerful file manager for the Mac. Connect to FTP or SFTP servers, manage your Amazon S3 account or your mobile devices over Bluetooth. All these features are beautifully integrated into a sophisticated, yet easy to use Cocoa based interface. Dual-pane view will dramatically increase your productivity along with state-of-the-art features like live preview, spring loaded folders and any-to-any workflow. All this to be topped by tabs, to keep your workspace nice and clean.
Features
- Dual-pane view
- Tabs
- Archives: Rar, Zip, Tar, Gz
- Amazon S3 support
- Connect to FTP/SFTP, FTP/TLS, Bluetooth
- Live preview (Archives, FTP, Bluetoot, etc…)
- Spring loaded folders
- Plugin architecture
- “Any to any” workflow
- Remote editing
- Filters
- Integrated Spotlight
- Smart folders
- Growl support
- Favorites shortcuts
Reviews
Mac Recon -
“…this is one prime example of how Mac software should be done by mixing in various features present in other apps within one great user interface…”
MacApper –
“…As a blogger, I sometimes have to make minor tweaks to my WordPress theme and plugins. Doing it the old way was boring and simply took more time. Thankfully, ForkLift’s live preview and remote editing functionality really speeds up my workflow. Now I can do more in less time…”
TUAW -
“…Well ForkLift has now shipped and appears to include quite a few nice features. Among these are a full-fledged (S)FTP client, tabs, spring loaded folders, Amazon S3 support, the ability to browse archives as if they were folders, and quite a bit more…”
Lifehacker -
“…ForkLift brings a dual-paned file management interface and lots more to your Mac.Aside from the usefulness of the dual-pane interface and several other cool features…”
VersionTracker -
“…Forklift has to be the most powerful dual pane file manager in existence, counting Mac and Windows. It accesses remote ftp sites as easily as two directories on your own computer. If you wish to upload a file to your web site, just click on the site name to bring it up in one pane, and your local directory in the other pane, and your are connected and ready to drag and drop either direction almost instantly. The program is extremely fast. I have been waiting a long time to see this program appear…”
Iusethis -
“…This one is awesome. i never used all that commander crap on windows and other OS, this is the first time i really felt in love with an app like that. great work!…”
System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.0 or later.
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July 2nd, 2007 at 12:31 am
This is a great app, good to see it on MacZot.
July 2nd, 2007 at 12:44 am
Good choice – a great app and then best dual-pane file manager for the Mac so far.
I waited for this at MacZot!
Thank you, MacZot!
July 2nd, 2007 at 1:01 am
Sounds interesting… too bad it crashes as soon as I launch it :(
July 2nd, 2007 at 3:22 am
Any extra offer for Zotgeist members today? It would be wonderful!
July 2nd, 2007 at 4:24 am
Best app of recent times…..too bad I have already bought it.
July 2nd, 2007 at 6:41 am
Could some of you who own Forklift tell me a bit about what makes it so great? Compare it to Path Finder and/or even the regular finder.
I’ve tested Forklift for the last 14 days, and while I initially liked it, I soon felt it was not for me. The preview is too small to be usable. Any way to enlarge it? Any way to make media-previews auto-start?
And lastly, what is the great bonus of the dual-pane design? In my opinion the invention of tabs made dual pane views redundant.
Not trying to troll here, just wanna be enlightened before this offer ends.
July 2nd, 2007 at 6:55 am
Oliver,
Does PathFinder has FTP , SFTP, Amazon S3, Bluetooth, or archive support like ForkLift (even with preview) , and what about Bluetooth? Can you copy files between FTP/SFTP/S3 server with Finder? Does Path/Finder support remote editing on Amazon FTP/SFTP/S3/Bluetooth? Besides ForkLift is sooooo much faster than Path Finder…just compare them to see it yourself
July 2nd, 2007 at 7:28 am
I got this one already. I strongly recommend it!
July 2nd, 2007 at 7:42 am
Does anyone know how this compares or fits in with Leopard?
July 2nd, 2007 at 9:04 am
I’d buy this, but I already have Transmit, AppZapper, and various other apps which pretty much do everything Forklift does (except for Amazon S3, but I wouldn’t use it anyway). Also, Transmit pretty much blows Forklift’s out of the water FTP-wise, except for, again, Amazon S3. There are quite a few bugs, too. However, this is a great app and I have no doubt it will soon match up to the competition.
July 2nd, 2007 at 9:10 am
@Britonius
ForkLift will work flawlessly on Leopard and will take advantage of it great new
features, besides that you can expect two killer features in the next release (1.1).
July 2nd, 2007 at 9:19 am
@Daniel
If you have found a bug please submit it on our support page: http://www.binarynights.com/support
We like reading bug reports and feature request :)
July 2nd, 2007 at 10:46 am
After an (admittedly) short test, I wasn’t all that impressed with Forklift’s speed compared to PathFinder. Just trying to delete a file on my desktop took several seconds. I’ll admit I was tempted by the Bluetooth integration, but since it doesn’t offer any functionality that isn’t available in the crappy OS X included Bluetooth browser, I’ll stick with PathFinder + Transmit and just continue to deal with a bad Bluetooth interface.
Just as a side note, one of the features of PathFinder that influenced me to continue with it over giving Forklift a longer try is the drop stack. Drop stack + tabs is far more efficient for me than a two pane interface.
It’ll be interesting to see how the app continues to evolve, though. It certainly has promise. Tempt me again in the future, Forklift!
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:02 am
@Ian
File deletion (move to trash) is done by sending an apple event to Finder so it should must be as fast as your Finder. For me deleting 1000 files took about 0.5 sec…..hmmm
Could you tell us more about Path Finder? :)
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:02 am
@Ian
File deletion (move to trash) is done by sending an apple event to Finder so it should be as fast as your Finder. For me deleting 1000 files took about 0.5 sec…..hmmm
Could you tell us more about Path Finder? :)
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:24 am
Life-saver application for those who need to work with lot of file. Great work guys, I just bought it! :)
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:34 am
Nahh… I stick with Pathfinder. Forklift is a nice app though, but my workflow has developed around Pathfinder.
July 2nd, 2007 at 12:02 pm
If I knew that Forklift could do for OSX what Directory Opus does for Windows, I’d think pretty hard about getting it. Ideally I would prefer to see Directory Opus for the Mac but I have serious doubts that GPSoftware will develop it for OSX. :(
For those interested…
http://www.gpsoft.com.au/
This is one program where screenshots on a website of it doesn’t come close to doing it justice. Even just reading about it doesn’t really do it. If you have a Windows machine, download the trial and give it a go. It’s highly customizable.
July 2nd, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Mudi, I believe Ian referred to the process of deleting a file, navigating to it, etc – not that Forklift is slow in itself. Just that the owrkflow is not as fast as that of Path Finder…
July 2nd, 2007 at 4:24 pm
There is no faster workflow than dual pane especially if you are utilizing the keyboard.
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:54 am
I was a long-time PathFinder user, and the program really is in a class by itself. But as of late, it’s become more slow on my PPC, and I especially do not like the look of version 4.8. So I sought alternatives. I had a license for Disk Order, which has a number of superior features to Fork Lift, but DiskOrder crashes on me regularly. So I bought Fork Lift and have been pretty happy. It could use some improvements, especially in terms of how it manages tabs, but I do find it to be faster than PathFinder. I’d also like to see it have more Finder functionality, such as the ability to change icons in the “Info” window; to delete the trash; and to allow one to choose default apps. As for the argument about PathFinder’s shelf (dropstack), I find that flawed. Even if I put an item on the shelf, I still have to navigate to whatever folder I want to drag those items into. I see little difference between that and simply choosing a different pane in ForkLift to drag the items into. I also question the argument that PathFinder is somehow faster at deleting and moving files. I’ve never had that experience, and yes, I have told PF to not display superflous effects and such. Any version of PF I’ve tried since version 4 has been dirt slow at deleting or moving files. ForkLift has been nearly instantaneous. I bought ForkLift in the belief that the program will mature with better features. Hope I’m right, although I’m reasonably satisfied with it as it is now. (Version 1.2)
March 4th, 2010 at 1:47 am
Used this Forklift to move all my images library… And guess what ? Error popped out and all of my files where lost… I strongly suggest not to use this software.
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